Mike D'Angelo
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Precious
- Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire
- Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
- Poor black teens. Neglect. AIDS. Rape. Down syndrome. Give this film an Oscar already!
- Making the commonplace seem fresh
- "An Education" is saved by a star-making performance
- Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
- David has a wee secret, and if you can't figure it out, you badly need an education of your own.
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- The story of an elite unit of soldiers armed with psychic powers was plenty nutty on its own—playing it for broad laughs in "The Men Who Stared at Goats" only renders it surprisingly toothless.
- The Cove
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- If you’re looking to be entertained, forget The Cove.
- Amelia
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- Amelia Earhart was a woman in a male-dominated field, and Amelia beats that fact into the ground until it coughs up blood.
- The Stepfather
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- The 1987’s low-budget sleeper The Stepfather has long been championed as an uncommonly intelligent thriller, though it’d really be more accurate to call it primo schlock.
- Where the emo things are
- Spike Jonze turns a children’s classic into a twee indie-rock lyric
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- Spike Jonze turns a children’s classic into a twee indie-rock lyric.
- Bright Star
- From the director of The Piano comes the story of 19th-century poet John Keats and the love of his life
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
- Here’s the deal: Either you’re the kind of person who’s going to get excited by a movie about the chaste romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne, or you’re not. If you are, keep reading.
- Love, Michael Moore-style
- More sarcastic muckraking from the liberal prankster
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
- If there are two people I never want to see in a motion picture again, they are Michael Moore and some poor, low-paid security guard who is just trying to do his/her goddamn job.
- Homicide
- Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
- Long unavailable on home video, David Mamet’s 1991 film Homicide remains the most weirdly personal work he’s written directly for the screen, and still ranks among his finest.
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