Fri 11 Feb 2011
Posted by Ethan under Film Journal International, Film Review
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William Shakespeare’s immortal Romeo and Juliet becomes Gnomeo & Juliet a decidedly forgettable animated comedy that won’t linger in the memory for a day, let alone five centuries. Read my review at Film Journal.
Fri 11 Feb 2011
Posted by Ethan under Film Review, NYC Film Critic
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Orgasm Inc.
Directed by Elizabeth Canner
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Nine years in the making, Elizabeth Canner’s eye-catchingly titled documentary Orgasm Inc. is neither a profile of a corporation that specializes in providing orgasms nor an expose of the contemporary porn industry. Rather, this thoughtful—if at times clumsy—film is the latest salvo in the ongoing debate over the increased power of the pharmaceutical industry in shaping our health-care system, a subject that has steadily made its way from the headlines into documentaries and even narrative features (see the recent Love and Other Drugs…well, the first half of it, anyway).
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