Stories by Dorothy Woodend
Gran Torino shows that, after doing considerable damage to the world, men's time of retribution has finally come. And now they want us to pity them.
Posted on Jan 9, 2009, Source: The Tyee
Frances McDormand and Amy Adams star in a fun, mad dash of a film.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008, Source: The Tyee
The Situation, a film about western journalists in Iraq, doesn't convey the horrors of war but instead exploits it.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007, Source: The Tyee
In the new Spanish tragedy, beauty and horror are so closely intertwined it is sometimes hard to pick them apart.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007, Source: The Tyee
Enough with the animals and stereotypes already. Sony Pictures's latest animation film is an exercize in stupidity.
Posted on Oct 20, 2006, Source: The Tyee
George Lucas claims that his latest Star Wars film isn't for kids, yet the world is deluged in Darth mania. Amidst all the hype, one bit of information seems to be lacking: Darth Vader is evil.
Posted on May 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In the last five years the public's appetite for horror movies has increased exponentially. When real life for many is scarier than anything on the silver screen, why is the lust for fear universal?
Posted on Feb 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The only thing we love more than beautiful people is the pleasure of witnessing their public humiliation.
Posted on Dec 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Thick is in--if you're a male actor, that is. Why are so many of today's leading men supersized?
Posted on Feb 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
