It’s the last week of February, dear readers, and that means that, hopefully, spring will finally be on its way before long. And that also means we’re almost out of the cinematic dumping ground that is the beginning of the year, so people who want to see something good at the theater will have other options than merely seeing The Lego Movie again. But in the meantime, trailers are cont...[Read More]
In my estimation, Oliver Stone has not made an exceptional film in fifteen years; 1997’s U-Turn was the last worthy one in a celebrated run of controversial classics that helped define 1990’s American cinema. Beginning with The Doors (1991) and culminating in a nasty neo-noir (U-Turn [1997]), the director’s forceful combination of large themes and dynamic cinematic playfulness engendered as much a...[Read More]