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Director David Fincher’s ( Fight Club, Se7en ) latest offering, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, curiously reminds me of Kevin Costner’s monumentally mediocre Waterworld (1995). Let me first make...
Jan 10, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe basic premise of Jan Sverak’s Kolya may conjure notions of banal, feathery frivolty for many film patrons: An aging, lonely, womanizing Czech has his world turned upside down when a young Russian...
Nov 25, 2008 / Eric M. Armstrong
“Why so serious?”, the marquee line growled by Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight” seems to be a popular question among those especially critical of Christopher Nolan’s ultra-dark follow-up to...
Jul 19, 2008 / Eric M. Armstrong


