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...character’s odd humanism and compassion. The latter half of the film is largely a showcase for Koch’s fine acting, although he gives a better performance in the marvelous “The Lives of Others,” which recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It’s early to start divining the honorees for the 2008 awards season, but I’d hazard that if the Academy has any sense, they’ll leave “Black Book” out of the running. Then again...
Everyone saw Forest Whitaker win the Oscar for Best Actor, but few saw his performance onscreen. Now, at home, viewers can see what all the fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense...
...gets to say "ho," in an age when Pimp My Ride is an innocent car show and It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp is an Oscar-winning song? As even Essence Carlson, one of the Rutgers students Imus insulted, acknowledged at a press conference, black rap artists labeled young black women as "hos" long before Imus did. And while straight people may not be able to say "faggot," Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace helped mainstream the nonhostile gay joke for straight people. But all this reappropriation and blurring - distinguishing a good-natured "That...
...Reception” was reminiscent of an Oscar Wilde play, or perhaps George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” which played earlier this year in the Adams Pool House Theater. It was a similar European-style house party, albeit with far more action and humor and none of the civility of “Heartbreak House.” And whereas Shaw’s play was characterized by languor, this production could be described in three words: energy, energy, energy...
...from ‘Taxi Driver’] or a ‘Dirty Harry,’ than it is a ‘Terminator’-type character,” he says. PURE PLEASURE? Swagger, a bad-ass with a soulful side, might not be an Oscar-worthy role, but according to Wahlberg, “Shooter” is a movie people will like. “I certainly can’t just start looking for, like, English period dramas and stuff that’s going to get me nominated [for an Academy Award...