Crime Beat

Posted March 31, 2013 by D. K. Holm

If the cliché is that television is now better than movies, then British television is still better than American television, with Danish TV a close hot second. Though often visually... More

Tone Deaf

Posted by D. K. Holm

Halle Berry seems to be suffering from what is properly known as the Best Actress Curse. This states that all the subsequent films by an actress who wins best or... More

Fallen Arches

Posted by D. K. Holm

  What justifies the continued existence of Gerard Butler on our screens? He has made some 50 films, and the only a couple of them have cracked $100 million, one of... More

Too Little Information

Posted January 25, 2013 by D. K. Holm

Filling out the slowly expanding filmography of Alfred Hitchcock, the Criterion Collection has issue Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much. Though out of copyright, and with numerous platters of... More

Chain of Fools

Posted December 15, 2012 by D. K. Holm

Django Unchained is the first "Obama movie." It's a film made by a white person who facilitates and endorses African-American rage at injustice. The film is sure to scare the pants... More

Ice Follies

Posted December 2, 2012 by D. K. Holm

There are many ways that the makers of Chasing Ice could have presented their material. They could have focused on the history of the earth and its atmosphere, perhaps backed with a... More

There At the New Yorker

Posted November 13, 2012 by D. K. Holm

The inner workings of the New Yorker magazine have fascinated readers nearly since the publication's inception, and chronicles by various insiders have ranged from a bucolic catalog of eccentrics in books by... More

And So But

Posted September 21, 2012 by D. K. Holm

As with James Dean, it is interesting to speculate what David Foster Wallace might have accomplished if if he had not committed suicide on Friday, September 11th, 2008. Wallace might have written... More

There Will Be Blood

Posted September 16, 2012 by D. K. Holm

What if Paul Thomas Anderson directed Resident Evil: Retribution? In that alternate universe, Alice (Mila Jovovich) would find herself in a new environment, one in which a powerful leader charismatically controlled some... More

Wheeler Dealer

Posted September 15, 2012 by D. K. Holm

Elements of Arbitrage will seem familiar to many viewers. At the center of the story is a car accident involving a businessman and a mistress that will remind some people of the... More