The Film Crusade

Somewhere in that cabinet where you keep all of your movies, there are several reliable cover movies. They’re called cover movies, well, because you need to be wrapped up and curled fetal position into a thousand or so covers and pillows. Some may refer to these as ‘blanket movies,’ but that’s simply incorrect.

What is it with the bad-guy biopics? And why do audiences keep eating them up? Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is a clear-cut example of the direction Hollywood has been going for the last couple decades in terms of framing traditional antagonists as protagonists.

You know your country’s in trouble when it’s starting to resemble the futuristic world of “Total Recall.” Here’s a movie likely to have never been seen by anyone in China.

One of the most highly anticipated of 2008, Oliver Stone’s W. is less an attempt at defining President Bush’s legacy as President, and more an introspective character study on how Bush came to be President and how he viewed the office.