Reviews

  • Foreign Objects: Taxidermia (Hungary)

    Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush…

  • Review: Taking Woodstock

    Woodstock, the epochal event of the peace, love, and rock & roll generation, hardly seems an ideal subject for Ang Lee, chronicler of perpetual misery.…

  • Foreign Objects: Cold Prey 2 (Norway)

    Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush…

  • Review: Fifty Dead Men Walking

    Fifty Dead Men Walking furthers the legacy of Jim Sheridan and other directors who have made a particular method of depicting the Irish Troubles their…

  • Review: Inglourious Basterds

    Around the midpoint of Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglourious Basterds, a character is questioned about the inclusion of a director’s name on her theater marquee.…

  • Foreign Objects: Thirst (South Korea)

    Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush…

  • Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife

    The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of those movies in which every action taken and every line of dialogue, really everything down to the minutest…

  • Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    Arriving amid an avalanche of bad buzz and diminished expectations the much hyped, long developed G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra surprises by being…

  • Review: Julie & Julia

    Much like meals themselves, movies about food or with food as a center-piece can be hit or miss depending on the ingredients. Appealing food helps…