This is a remarkable creative project by Billy Bob Thornton, who wrote, directed, and starred as a simpleton who has a streak of violence about him. What is terrific about the film is how easy going it appears and how effortless the simple Southern backdrop is to the main plot; a plot which, mind you, never travails very deep. We are thrown into the narrative of this man who is....

  This is an action adventure movie not starring an American lead. It’s quite remarkable that such a product was aloud to see the light of day – indeed it belies the model’s discontinuation in favor of stock masculine puppets like Indiana Jones instead of frail old Jews who sound funny when they say words like “when”. Nevertheless it is a bit like the Da Vinci Code in....

  It is quite astounding how transiently obsessed the culture is with a corporate figure. There is more sensationalism around Steve Jobs than assuredly any corporate titan in history. And that must never be forgotten – he was a corporate man.   Perhaps that is what makes him so mythological. That a creative being was able to make it and cut through the typical red-taped....