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That Sinking Feeling

This modern-day Top Gun succumbs to watery cliches.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 28, 2006

There's something comic -- and a little spooky -- about the sight of Kevin Costner in rubber flippers and a diving mask. Granted, it's been more than a decade since the $180 million fiasco of Waterworld, but you'd think that an older, wiser, fleshier Costner would hesitate before so much...
Jihad in Their Eyes

An uncensored portrait of grieving Iraqis reveals a thirst for vengeance.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 28, 2006

A variant of what military leaders call "the fog of war" shrouds much of The Blood of My Brother, Andrew Berends's unsettling and uncensored documentary about the effects of the American occupation in Iraq. In the film's first scene, we behold a black-clad middle-aged Iraqi woman and her nineteen-year-old son...
Flight of Fancy

This glossy combat epic offers a sanitized version of World War I.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 21, 2006

Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again -- and hey, pilgrim, isn't it about time? -- might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille are once more cast as "knights of the sky," dashing young...
Run Lola Run

University of Colorados International Film Series

By Bill Gallo
Sep 21, 2006

The transgressive German chase movie Run Lola Run happily tramples all our usual ideas about narrative structure, chronology and character, and for that alone, it's one of the most fascinating artifacts of the late 1990s. Critic Roger Ebert called it "an exercise in kinetic energy, a film of nonstop motion...
The Longest Yawn

This heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 14, 2006

The Rock -- formerly known as "Flex Kavana" and, a bit later, as "Rocky Maivia" -- was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started taking down $12 million paychecks. The happily deluded throngs who used to watch him lay signature moves like the People's Elbow or...

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