There is a school of thought that all stories can be categorized into one of three conflicts: Man against Man, Man against Society, and Video Bloggers against Tornado. Into the Storm fits solidly into that last category. Hot widower Richard Armitage is the vice principal of a middle American high school for symmetrically featured 20-year-olds, […]
Ben Coleman
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Good Ol’ Rummy
Donald Rumsfeld: Your friend and mine!
Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense for the half-decade that included September 11 and a couple of wars you might have heard of. But before that he was a Nixonian power player and NATO globetrotter. So it makes sense that Errol Morris would follow up his enormously powerful The Fog of War—which profiled another Cold […]
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Parallel Parkouring
Too much plot, not enough jumping
Brick Mansions is the American remake of a 10-year-old French action movie where people jump around a lot. District B13 was made at the dawn of cinema’s parkour craze in 2004, while Brick Mansions arguably represents its dusk. For the remake, French jumpy man David Belle reprises his supporting lead role from the original film, joined […]