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Eric Ray
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There Will Be Blood: The madness of American capitalism...but no method
There Will Be Blood
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will Be Blood, the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson and adapted from Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, Oil!, concerns the rise and descent of ruthless oil baron, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis). It is, on one hand, a…
Juno: The safe, "independent" comedy
Juno
Directed by Jason Reitman
written by Diablo Cody
Juno, the much-talked about film about a pregnant teenage hipster, has been praised for being this year’s “little film that could." This film became popular as major studios continued to churn out bombastic comic-book movies and crude, simple-…
Killer of Sheep: The black working class and the alienating effects of work
Killer of Sheep, a remarkable social document about urban working-class African- Americans in the Watts district of Los Angeles, is now playing at the Wexner Center through tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Director Charles Burnett shot the film over several weekends in the early 1970s, as a…
Reviews of recent DVD releases
Bobby
Bobby is an ensemble film about the disparate characters at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel during the events leading up to Robert Kennedy's assassination there in June, 1968. Directed by actor Emilio Estevez, the film portrays various racial and class conflicts among the characters. They…