“God, I’ve got more in common with these gooks than I do my own spoiled-rotten family.”

Plot summary: A racist white man protects his Hmong neighbors from a local gang.
Review:
Early in 2008 Eastwood released Changeling, a dreadfully overlong stinker whose hack direction displays an amazing fidelity to melodramatic cliché. The film has, among other things, missing/murdered […]

Posted on January 17th, 2009 by Mat Viola
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“Nobody cares but me”

Plot summary: Private eye Philip Marlowe attempts to get to the bottom of his friend’s supposed suicide in this offbeat adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel.
Review:
It doesn’t take long to realize that Altman’s The Long Goodbye offers a very skewed vision of Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: the first time he steps outside his apartment door he’s […]

Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Mat Viola
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