Articles Written by Gopal
Dead Leaves (2004) Movie Review
“Over the top’ is an expression loosely thrown about by film critics to describe anything a little too far out of the ordinary in terms of violence, sexual content or any other thematic material of a transgressive nature. However, in the case of the Japanese animated film “Dead Leaves,” ‘over the top’ doesn’t even begin [...]
December 13th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreChunhyang (2000) Movie Review
Based on an 18th century folk song, the Korean period drama “Chunhyang” tells a familiar story even for non-Koreans: a forbidden love between two people separated by class, family and duty; a secret wedding; the meddling of unwanted interlopers; and finally, a heroic reunion. So universal are these themes that, had it been put together [...]
December 5th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreJarhead (2005) Movie Review
War is hell, and it’s probably never looked and felt the part more than in the scorching deserts of the Middle East . This is the ultimate destination of Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal, “Donnie Darko”), whom we first meet as a bright eyed 19 year old fresh off the bus at Camp Pendleton. [...]
November 15th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreBomb the System (2002) Movie Review
Graffiti emerged in the 1970s in New York City and quickly made the transition from vandalism to street art, perhaps by sheer volume alone. It became semi-legitimized as an art form in the 1980s, as graffiti styles began showing up in art galleries in the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and others. [...]
October 26th, 2005 | Gopal | 1 Comment | Read MoreCronicas (2004) Movie Review
In today’s world of around the clock global news coverage, one gets the sense that all too often the news media has been growing desperate for material to fill airtime, and that this has given rise to an increasingly graphic and questionable predatory style of journalism. And as much as we, the audience, wag our [...]
October 25th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreBlood and Bones (2004) Movie Review
Takeshi Kitano is Japan ’s true ‘King of All Media.’ A cultural icon in his home country as an actor, director, poet, comedian, painter and newspaper journalist, Kitano is best known to the rest of the world as a minimalist craftsman of gritty, nihilistic gangster films. In “Blood and Bones,” Kitano [...]
October 17th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreA History of Violence (2005) Movie Review
David Cronenberg has been an iconic director in the horror genre for close to three decades now, and is generally considered to be one of the more intellectual directors in the genre. More often than not, his films present the destruction/reconstruction of the human body in a highly sexualized manner. In “Rabid”, he presented zombification [...]
October 3rd, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreBeyond the Wall of Sleep (2004) Movie Review
Set at the turn of the 20th century in backwoods Appalachia, “Beyond The Wall Of Sleep” tells the story of the frightening happenings at a decrepit mental asylum. It’s here that under the less than watchful eye of the asylum’s director, Dr. Fenton (Marco St. John, speaking with an accent that randomly varies from British [...]
September 18th, 2005 | Gopal | 1 Comment | Read MoreRed Eye (2005) Movie Review
Airport check-in. Perhaps the greatest horror of the modern transport age. Dealing with long lines, heavy luggage, rude travelers and incessant delays are just some of the exhausting trials contemporary America goes through to get to our destination. It is against this familiar backdrop that we enter “Red Eye,” the latest film by legendary horror [...]
September 7th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreBang Rajan (2000) Movie Review
While originally made in 2000, the Thai war epic “Bang Rajan” didn’t get much exposure outside of Asia despite being the most successful film in Thai history at the time. That is, until maverick U.S. director Oliver Stone (”Natural Born Killers”) championed its distribution in 2004. The movie tells the tale of a legendary, but [...]
August 10th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read More
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