This is a film very much akin to Adrift in Tokyo and resembling Slackers. Though it is fascinating like Adrift in our ability to absorb a completely alien culture. True, contemporary Germany is not exactly in another galaxy like the Japanese are, but nevertheless it is enjoyable to see the little oddities that make […]

  Why Stop Now portrays the frustration of the imposition of loved ones on one’s own ability to grow as a person. And this is done in its most extreme form. Mr. Eisenberg plays a piano prodigy who has to dedicate a part of his life toward maintaining the livelihood of his family, thus interrupting […]

  The American dream. What exactly does that entail? Is it live-in coffins or homes as FDR prescribed it, or is it something much more transcendent than meager human subsistence away from the wretches of the wild? A land of opportunity, and the pursuit of happiness, is much deeper than warmth from the coldness. Yet […]

  What does revenge tell us about the human condition? There is of course the thirst for justice, which I have defined elsewhere as the preservation of righteousness. Revenge is the willful act then of attempting to restore righteousness. Of wronging a right. And immediately we can see the revenge as an act of objective […]

  Does being in love with someone mean one loves all the parts or only the best of their significant other? Of course it includes for better and for worse. Yet what happens when the bad and bleak begin to overcrowd and suffocate the good? Is it time to cut and run, or is there […]

  The struggle to get by, beyond simply to make ends meet but to feed oneself, goes neglected and unnoticed the farther removed one is from the bottom cellars of society. There, not so much an underworld or underclass as the basement of the house of civilization, an entire culture of people resides. Taking risks […]

  Frequencies attempts to examine the role fate plays in each person’s destiny. And ultimately, how much freedom we genuinely have in determining each of our lives. It’s complicated to live in a world which is infinitely out of our control, and what little part we do have control over, it often conflicts and interferes […]

  This film was adapted from a play and it really drives home the incongruity in the presumptions of the course of civilization through the unveiling of the sexual repressiveness that exists in Christianity. One of the gravest sins I have personally committed until I was set in my ways was presuming the linear, chronological […]

This is a film that has a terrific target, but the focus is so dreadful it’s insulting. This especially rings true when it compares to its predecessor The Ten Commandments at a time when the quality of human being is demonstratively more substantial than it is now. That, for instance, an audience had the patience […]

  This is a serious but predictable examination of the life of a Hollywood movie star and the humanity that is robbed from him. This is as accurate as we can expect coming from someone as intimate to this lifestyle as Ms. Coppola is. And it is not a wonder then that we hear about […]