Rescue Dawn: The Challenge of the Extraordinary
When I first saw Rescue Dawn—in fact, when I saw the preview trailer—I said to myself, Aha! After a whole generation, here’s another green film from Werner Herzog. Steve Zahn and Christian Bale: lost...
View ArticleBlu-ray/DVD: ‘Knights of Badassdom’
Knights of Badassdom (eOne, Blu-ray, DVD), a modest little horror comedy set in the fantasy gaming LARP (that’s Live Action Role Playing) culture, has a good time sending up its obsessive nerds and...
View ArticleReview: Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen and family in ‘Captain Fantastic’ In Captain Fantastic, the winner of this year’s SIFF Golden Space Needle award, Viggo Mortensen has found a role that fits his own reluctant image as a...
View ArticleReview: War for the Planet of the Apes
Back when I could afford to attend big outdoor sporting events, I invariably got gooseflesh during the pregame al fresco performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Husky Marching Band does an...
View ArticleReview: You’ve Got Mail
[Originally written for Film.com in 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and websites....
View ArticleReview: Out of Sight
[Originally written for Mr. Showbiz, August 7, 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and...
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