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...satisfy. But from Martin Scorsese, we have come to expect something more. We expect a coherent and thought-provoking message. We expect great ideas, new innovations, broken boundaries. We expect, in short, a film that is different, one that will stay with us well past the final fade-to-black. And it is this essential point where “Shutter Island” is found lacking. It is competent, but also vaguely utilitarian—fun while it lasts, but slight in lasting impact. And that, from Scorsese, is simply inadequate...
Film industry professionals feel similarly. Patrick Jerome, Director of the Boston International Film Festival, reported that many film festivals—like CineVegas and the Hollywood Black Film Festival—have been cancelled this year. “Film festivals depend on a good economy to survive,” Jerome said...
...once I started doing the work, I became aware of the inequalities. I tell people that if you're going to commit murder, you want to be white, and you want to be wealthy - so that you can hire a first-class lawyer - and you want to kill a black person. And if [you are], the odds of your being sentenced to death are basically zero. It's one thing to say that rich people should be able to drive Ferraris and poor people should have to take the bus. It's very different to say that rich people should...
...Sporting white shirts and black bottoms, the U.S. men's team looked fine. The problem was that they played lousy (the American women, at 2-5, are faring no better). After winning a bronze medal as a member of the 2006 U.S. team, John Shuster, who works as a bartender on a northern Minnesota golf course, decided he wanted to captain his own team. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...
Rawnsley does not allege that Brown hit anyone. His book does claim that Brown swore at U.S. political strategist Bob Shrum, stabbed the white leather interior of an official car with a black pen, grabbed a staff member by the lapels and earned a "pep talk" about how to treat staff from Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell. Taken together with Watt's depiction of a temperamental premier sulking at a dinner including Louis Susman, later appointed U.S. ambassador to London, after guests took their seats without waiting for Brown to allocate placements, and Price's account of Brown's "extraordinary...