Email Author Bill Gallo

2005 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Before the Fall

  published December 29, 2005

  Dennis Gansel's disturbing feature Before the Fall explores a little-known detail of the Nazi horror: the recruitment of more than... More >>

• Dream Team

  published December 22, 2005

  Just after midnight, the bus broke down outside Salina, Kansas. It was George Walker's 24th birthday, but he wasn't thinking about cakes or... More >>

• Backhanded Slapstick

  published December 22, 2005

  The Jerry Lewis chromosome is running amok again inside Jim Carrey, and if you don't feel like getting clubbed half to death with a slapstick,... More >>

• Beautiful Dreamer

  published December 22, 2005

  The gifted Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) says that his overriding concern is "how... More >>

• Lawrence of Arabia

  published December 22, 2005

  Unless your new plasma TV is the size of a conference table, it's a good idea to skip the DVD option and make straight for a movie theater to take... More >>

• Homo on the Range

  published December 15, 2005

  It's not hard to predict how Ang Lee's controversial Brokeback Mountain will play in John Wayne country. This romantic tragedy about... More >>

• Edward Scissorhands

  published December 15, 2005

  Before Willy Wonka started churning out chocolate bars and Victor Van Dort inadvertently married a dead girl, Johnny Depp brought another of... More >>

• Holy Bankroller

  published December 8, 2005

  The book on Philip Anschutz is that he can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse -- or, for that matter, water into wine. In four decades of... More >>

• Seamless

  published December 8, 2005

  In his terrific new documentary Seamless, director Douglas Keeve provides a bizarre look at a contest cooked up by Vogue... More >>

• Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

  published December 1, 2005

  Trekkies -- and mere mortals -- will argue endlessly about the best movie of Star Trek's big-screen franchise, but in the end, most... More >>

• All Yours

  published November 24, 2005

  Most movies intend to entertain or inform us, or even momentarily take our minds off personal problems -- that bullet-riddled body in the trunk,... More >>

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  published November 24, 2005

  Science fiction films come and go, but Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, endures as an epic of the genre.... More >>

• Grass and Chang

  published November 17, 2005

  Years before those airplanes attacked a big monkey as he clung to the Empire State Building, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack... More >>

• Off the Tracks

  published November 10, 2005

  Movie-goers with a taste for nasty villains will get all they can handle from the heavy in Swedish director Mikael Håfstrom's More >>

• The NeverEnding Story

  published November 10, 2005

  German director Wolfgang Petersen's relentlessly strange fairy tale The NeverEnding Story (1984) has gained well-deserved cult... More >>

• DIFF Burns On

  published November 10, 2005

  Film directors Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman, Les... More >>

• Shake Hands With the Devil

  published November 3, 2005

  Tragically, the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people in Rwanda didn't stir the world's conscience as it should have. A decade later, though, it sent... More >>

• Foiled Again

  published October 27, 2005

  It's been 85 years since Douglas Fairbanks slashed his way into the top tax bracket as the masked hero Zorro, and Hollywood still can find no... More >>

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

  published October 27, 2005

  A dozen years before The Corpse Bride got her not-so-pretty little hooks into Johnny Depp, Hollywood wizard Tim Burton gave moviegoers a labor of... More >>

• Mine Kampf

  published October 20, 2005

  When we first see the protagonist of North Country, a working-class heroine portrayed by a deglamorized Charlize Theron, she's... More >>

• Sins of the Father

  published October 20, 2005

  The protagonist of Lodge Kerrigan's deeply moving, uncomfortably intimate Keane is the kind of pariah most urban dwellers will do... More >>

• The World

  published October 20, 2005

  For Western viewers willing to spend 143 minutes inside a cocoon-like Chinese theme park littered with scaled-down reproductions of the Eiffel... More >>

• Edvard Munch

  published October 13, 2005

  The anguished paintings of Edvard Munch, who was born in 1863, foreshadowed expressionism and provided uneasy visual correlatives to the horror... More >>

• War of the Word

  published October 6, 2005

  He said his name was Columbus, And I just said, "Good luck." -- "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" Gun control. Iraq. Charles... More >>

• The Conformist

  published October 6, 2005

  Two years before he stunned the film world with 1972's Last Tango in Paris, 29-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci directed The... More >>