Reviews: Films

Leon

Is Leon a good guy? Mike Parker analyses the character of the eponymous anti-hero through the moral philosophy of Schopenhauer.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

9/11 and World Trade Center

Thomas Wartenberg sees two films about 9-11 and muses that sometimes more than courage is called for.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Philosophical Twist

Thomas Wartenberg tells us his hunch about a cunning plan to market DVDs. Is turning epistemology into showbiz a good thing or a bad thing?
[Issue 57: September/October 2006]

Slacker

Colin Bartie digs the countercultural theme in Slacker and other films by Richard Linklater.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006]

Seven Samurai

See a cinematic classic from a post-Hegelian perspective. Danny O’Donnell reviews Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006]

King Kong

What are the dangers when a director monkeys around with a classic film? Thomas Wartenberg on the remake of King Kong.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006]

Bright Leaves

Thomas Wartenberg thinks about how real life keeps on breaking through as he watches Bright Leaves.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

I ♥ Huckabees

John Snider ponders time, space and Shania Twain in this review of I ♥ Huckabees.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Spanglish

Thomas Wartenberg ponders the classic dilemma of the Good Mother in a film about ethnicity, renunciation and cookery: Spanglish.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

Bad Education

Thomas Wartenberg thinks darkly fraternal thoughts while watching a movie by Pedro Almodovar about sibling rivalry and the appalling results of Bad Education.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

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