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Just to Pacify Those Grown-Up Boys
You’d think that, in the five years since Revolutions, the Wachowskis might have learned some valuable lessons; but sadly, their adaptation of the popular cartoon—excuse me, anime —series Speed Racer ends up lost in its own sensory-overload and indulgence. It takes three paragraphs to explain a plot that is really not important to the film and simply exists as a device to showcase bright, colorful, and fast computer effects created by the same team that developed the groundbreaking techniques showcased in The Matrix. Unfortunately, Speed Racer never gives the audience much opportunity to enjoy the visual effects. Still, the (presumably targeted) younger audience might make it a surprise hit.
Documentarian Errol Morris Examines Abu Ghraib Exposé
A product of the 1970s and the San Francisco Art Institute, Errol Morris became an overnight sensation with 1988’s The Thin Blue Line, a film which examined the case of Randall Dale Adams, on death row for the murder of a Dallas area police officer… and eventually led to his release. “It’s hard for me to even imagine how people experience my films,” he said while promoting his new film, Standard Operating Procedure. “I’m so involved with thinking about them and making them. It’s always been my hope that they can be taken on lots and lots of different levels. They can be taken as just entertainment. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. They are, after all, supposed to be movies.” |
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