25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

I continue to love Spike Lee's 25th Hour , one of his most shamelessly white elephant features (topped only by Miracle at St. Anna  and,...

The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

My love of the handful of Jane Campion works I've seen inexplicably failed to get me to watch The Piano  with any speed. Happily, I fina...

Almost Famous

Had anyone else directed Almost Famous , its syrupy sweetness would put its audience in the cinematic equivalent of a diabetic coma. But Cam...

25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

The aftermath of the September 11 attacks affecting cinema subtly at first, most noticeably the digital removal of the Twin Towers in films ...