D. K. Holm is the movie reviewer for theVancouver Voice. A long-time Portland, Ore., resident, Holm editing the film magazine Cinemonkey, worked at Willamette Week for 10 years, and then for the late, lamented PDXS. Holm has contributed numerous DVD reviews to various websites, including DVDJournal. In addition, Holm has published 10 books, including two volumes on R. Crumb, two on Tarantino, and volumes on independent cinema and film noir, and Guy Maddin: Interviews. More info can be found at is Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._K._Holm
Posts and Reviews by D. K. Holm
Falling Forward
Posted May 29, 2013 by D. K. Holm
Click on this link to view the Becoming Traviata trailer Outsiders tend to forget how much work goes into plays, movies, and operas. Perhaps operas even more, given that they juggle the synchronization of numerous major art forms, including singing,… Read More
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 undistinguished, British television has better writers and better actors. By… Read 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 best supporting actress Oscars will be crap. This isn’t exclusively… Read 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 them using only his voice (How To Train Your… Read 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 the film from a myriad of publishers, the CC version… Read 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 off of, or confirm the suspicious of, those knee-jerk extremists… Read 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 score by Philip Glass. Or they could have concentrated on… Read 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 E. J. Kahn and Brendan Gill to the excruciatingly long… Read 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 an “ironic” and self-conscious group review of the two or… Read 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 followers. Battle-scarred and tormented by the past, she would… Read More
