Top Articles from Mary Dickson
Miscellaneous
Celebrate Independence
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - We just celebrated a very significant holiday'the Fourth of July. Significant not because of fireworks, flags, off-key renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner” and other trumped-up displays of patriotic fervor, but because of what the holiday...
Miscellaneous
Arts & Entertainment - Hauntingly Herzog
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Above all, Werner Herzog is a storyteller. The renowned filmmaker who has been at the forefront of New German Cinema, who has won cinema’s most-prestigious prizes and whose works have been viewed, discussed and dissected by film lovers around the...
Miscellaneous
Arts & Entertainment - Trash TV?
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Talk television has reached such an abysmal state that shock jock Howard Stern, who will be bringing his unique style of free speech to CBS-TV with a new late night show on Saturdays, noted with appropriate irony: The standards of television have gone...
Miscellaneous
Pooh-Poohing the Poll
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - To listen to Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin tell it, they’re just a couple of knuckleheads who want to have some fun. The film-making duo, who created Universal Soldier and Independence Day, are the masterminds behind the highly-publicized effects...
Film & TV
Family Ties
The pain of being together is surpassed only by the thought of living apart.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Get out your handkerchiefs. Carl Franklin’s legitimately moving film about an ambitious young journalist who leaves her job as an investigative reporter to care for her dying mother will leave you sniffling. In some scenes it’s hard to hear...
Film & TV
Antz
A lone ant questions group thought, saving his kingdom with independent thinking.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - In an age when the entire world seems to have been transformed into a rampaging herd of mindless ninnies blindly following the latest trend, what a joy it is to see a film that celebrates individualism. Remember Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist comedy...
Film & TV
Lolita
Adrian Lyne’s controversial adaptation of Lolita finally makes it to the big screen.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I tried to subscribe to Showtime a few months ago just to watch Adrian Lyne’s controversial adaptation of Lolita, but they couldn’t guarantee hooking it up in time. I’m not the only person who called the cable company trying to get...
Film & TV
Shakespeare In Love
Shakespeare in Love breathes real-life romantic tragedy into the Bard’s bookish legacy.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - But soft, what words through yonder screen break! They are the words of the Bard himself in a sublime tale exquisitely penned by playwright Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and masterfully directed by John Madden (Mrs. Brown). How refreshing it is to hear...
Film & TV
Epic Attack
Pearl Harbor could live in infamy as another cheesy love-story amid some historical fact.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Given the success of recent war films like Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates, it’s hardly surprising that producers are hoping to make Pearl Harbor the summer’s box office triumph. What could be more patriotic than a cinematic homage...
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