These days, documentary filmmakers are shouldering much of the burden and bother of investigative journalism that newspapers, magazines, and the rest of the media-massage complex has largely abandoned. But to see them, one has to make an extra effort, and, for a couple of hours at least, choose the nutritious vegetables of education over the indulgent delights of entertainment—though the best in the genre do…
The Tree of Life @ Uptown Theatre
At long last, after years of tinkering and terabytes of speculation, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life—a movie made possible by the deep pockets of local film producer Bill Pohlad and his company, River Road Entertainment—has finally been released to a world that probably doesn’t deserve it. But we have it anyway, and…
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 @ local theaters
For whatever reason, the Twin Cities was chosen as one of the first markets in the country for the soft launch of Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, the first installment of a three-part movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s controversial and widely scorned/worshipped (take your pick) novel about the virtues of enlightened self-interest and unfettered capitalism. If there was any conscious thinking behind this decision, it may…
Review: Four Lions: A Terrorist Comedy @ St. Anthony Main
It’s no secret that terrorists can’t take a joke. Draw a cartoon poking fun at Mohammad and they’ll hand your first amendment rights to you on a platter mixed with your entrails.
So imagine the guts it takes to make an entire movie lampooning the stupidity and incompetence of terrorists. That’s what first-time director Chris Morris has done with Four Lions, the most courageously offensive…
2010 British Advertising Awards @ The Walker Art Center
If you attend the British Advertising Awards at the Walker Art Center this year, you will learn at least three things: 1) Those Brits are as cheeky and droll as ever, 2) Virgin has a complete monopoly on all transit and media in England, and 3) meerkats are funnier than birds or…
Hubble @ The Science Museum of Minnesota
In 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble published his findings—based on observations made through the largest telescope of its time, the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mount Wilson Observatory—proving that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe, and that there are billions of other galaxies in the universe, each with billions…
Howl @ The Walker Art Center
Werc Werk Works is an ambitious, up-and-coming local movie production company that, since its creation in 2008, has generated a great deal of buzz in the indie-film world, both for its innovative profit-sharing business model and, at the Sundance Film Festival and in the pages of Time magazine, for the quality and intelligence of its first major feature, Life During Wartime. Werc Werk Works’ second…
TV: Happy Town
Happy Town, ABC’s new TV series set in a fictitious and ironically named Minnesota village called Haplin, immediately breaks Horror Story Rule No. 1: Don’t drop your girlfriend off at midnight on an abandoned road, in a location that requires her to walk through the woods to get home. Bad things always…
Mpls./St.Paul International Film Festival @ St. Anthony Main
Did you hear about the Norwegian man who loved his wife so much he almost told her? Well, you would’ve if you’d attended the opening gala Thursday night for the 28th annual Minneapolis-St.Paul International Film Festival at St. Anthony Main.
It was Norwegian night at the festival, or so it seemed. More than 700 people showed up for the film-fest opener, Max Manus, a World…
Review: The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man @ The Uptown Theatre
You have to hand it to the Coen brothers: they never make the same movie twice. Their latest, A Serious Man, is an odd but worthy addition to the Coen catalogue. It’s a quirky, low-budget film steeped in Jewish culture and set in the bleakest imaginable outpost of 1960s suburbia, and it is essentially a philosophical meditation on the meaning of life, or lack thereof….
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