I don’t think I can call Fair Game a particularly great film, probably more of a guilty pleasure because I share its very obvious point of view, but as far as those films made in the post 9/11 backlash against Bush go, it’s a huge improvement on genre contributors such as Home of the Brave, […]
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January
09
Gangster Squad – Ruben Fleischer’s good v’s evil. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Next year it will be thirty years since Brian de Palma made The Untouchables (I know! I know!) one of the many rough parodies of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which was made sixty-two years earlier. Gangster Squad is our latest incarnation in the long running homage (we even have the all-important massacre on the steps scene) to a […]
Lisa Thatcher 