Posts by: Jonathan Kiefer
Last week, for duty’s sake, I caught a matinee of Orphan, the disposable but not entirely deplorable new horror flick in which a troublemaking tween adoptee seems strangely wise beyond her years and psychopathic beyond her means.
Some people have suggested that Orphan perpetuates the baseless stigmatization of orphans. Maybe. I have an adopted sibling [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, for duty’s sake, I caught a matinee of Orphan, the disposable but not entirely deplorable new horror flick in which a troublemaking tween adoptee seems strangely wise beyond her years and psychopathic beyond her means.
Some people have suggested that Orphan perpetuates the baseless stigmatization of orphans. Maybe. I have an adopted sibling [...]
Continue Reading →I've been seeing headlines about how Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made something like 50 trillion dollars just in the time it took me to type this sentence. And 25 trillion more just now. And so on. Curious.
Apparently there is series of books about a schoolboy who is also a young wizard. And [...]
Continue Reading →As I write this, the hour is late, and I’ve just seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I prefer to call it TROTF, because that sounds funny when you say it aloud. In print it doesn’t look so funny. It looks more like the abbreviation for one of those anxiety-inducing, soul-destroying, opportunity-preventing standardized tests. By [...]
Continue Reading →I know. You're thinking, "No WAY."
But sure enough. Or so Duncan Jones, the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie, told the New York Times last week.
Jones was recalling the formative years during which his father introduced him to the likes of George Orwell, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick, and let him [...]
Continue Reading →Aside from intellectual property attorneys, who really knows where to get good movie ideas? Julie & Julia, due in theaters this August, is Nora Ephron's movie of Julie Powell's memoir (originally a blog) of the year she devoted to making every recipe in Julia Child's famous cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Starring Amy [...]
Continue Reading →Directed by Kevin Rafferty (Kino, 2009)
Let it not be said that 1968 lacked fodder for eventual back-in-the-day documentaries. Even now, it all seems like too much: Vietnam in bloody chaos, King and Kennedy in coffins, Nixon in power, Black Panthers in the Olympics, Beatles in India, and — oh yes — two academically elite [...]
Continue Reading →“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”
Directed by Marina Zenovich
THINKFilm, 2008 “Polanski: A Biography”
By Christopher Sandford
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Probably no one would dispute the three most important facts of Roman Polanski's life: First, in 1943, the concentration-camp incarceration of his father and murder of his pregnant mother by the [...]
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