Articles Written by Gopal
Children of Men (2006) Movie Review
“Children Of Men,” the latest film from rising Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron (”Y tu mama tambi’n”), asks a very curious question: What would the world be like if we could no longer have children? Pretty crappy, it seems. The film takes place in London in the year 2027, 18 years after the last child on [...]
December 21st, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreApocalypto (2006) Movie Review
Over the past couple of years, few people in Hollywood have gotten as much negative press as Mel Gibson. And not just Britney Spears showing her hoo-ha type press, but true vitriol. Granted, Gibson’s drunken Jews and Sugartits rant didn’t do his public image any good, but nevertheless, it has reached a point where the [...]
December 11th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MorePan’s Labyrinth (2006) Movie Review
The 1930s were a terrible time in Spain. Mired in a vicious civil war that saw both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia use Spain as a practice ground for WWII, the country descended into Fascist repression under Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Against this incendiary backdrop, we have Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” a visually [...]
December 7th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreKaras: The Prophecy (2006) Movie Review
“Karas: The Prophecy” is, bar none, the most visually spectacular animated feature I have ever seen. It is also the most idiotic, poorly constructed, convoluted, and pointless film I have ever seen. It is a triumph of technical skill, meticulous attention to detail and computing horsepower; and the melding of CGI and hand drawn animation [...]
December 5th, 2006 | Gopal | 2 comments | Read MoreBlood Diamond (2006) Movie Review
The race to exploit the vast mineral wealth of Western and Central Africa over the last 15 years has sparked some of the most violent and brutal conflicts the world has never heard of. In particular, the trade in ivory, gold and now diamonds has fueled a savage civil war in the western corner of [...]
December 3rd, 2006 | Gopal | 2 comments | Read MoreThe Last King of Scotland (2006) Movie Review
The late 1960s through the 1970s were a tumultuous time for central Africa. It was during this span that the European powers gave up and/or lost their colonial possessions on the ‘Dark Continent.’ But what could have been a golden opportunity for progress quickly spiraled into chaos as the ethnic divides cultivated by the Colonial [...]
October 27th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreRenaissance (2006) Movie Review
As computer processing power has increased over the years, we’ve seen more and more creative integration of CGI into film. For the most part, the technology has been restricted to rendering ever more convincing F/X for sci-fi and fantasy films. However, over the past few years we’ve seen the technology being used as the very [...]
October 18th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Black Dahlia (2006) Movie Review #2
In 1947, the horrifically mutilated, disemboweled and exsanguinous body of an aspiring actress named Elizabeth Short was found in a field in Los Angeles. So ghastly was the scene that, combined with Short’s penchant for wearing all black, the newspapers dubbed the case “˜The Black Dahlia’ murder after the old Raymond Chandler story. The crime [...]
September 25th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreHard Candy (2005) Movie Review
First time director David Slade’s film “Hard Candy” is an impressive and challenging entry into the revenge thriller genre. The film opens by introducing us to Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom Of The Opera”), a 30-something photographer and Hayley (Ellen Page, “X-Men: The Last Stand”), a boyish and precocious 14-year old girl, who meet on [...]
September 24th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreBeowulf & Grendel (2005) Movie Review
Retelling old tales filtered through modern sensibility seems to be the thing to do these days. The recent films “Troy” and “King Arthur” are examples of this, where the mystical/supernatural elements that made the original stories so compelling are stripped away in favor of 20th Century sociopolitical incongruities like emancipated women and warriors in touch [...]
August 7th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read More
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