by natecooper | Jun 20, 2006 | movie reviews, movies
I went into this movie expecting to be impressed and to have some really great feelings of satisfaction. Living in Santa Cruz for five years has prepared me for the expected “pat you on your back” feeling you get when watching a documentary about a...
by natecooper | May 17, 2006 | movie reviews, movies
Choke me if I sound too pretentious… Perhaps those words should have been uttered by Matthew Barney or his female life mate Bjork. I for one really enjoyed the film. Having learned a great deal about Barney’s work when I TAed an Art History class (for...
by natecooper | May 1, 2006 | movie reviews, movies
Warning! I usually hate the idea of spoiler warnings. I feel like as a former student of film I’ve had so many plots ruined before hand that I’m kinda numb to the idea of ruining the experience of a film. I feel like I’m sort of halfway between...
by natecooper | Apr 3, 2006 | movie reviews, movies, nate
This past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing two movies which I feel operate on similar levels and so rather than doing one single review I’ll combine the two. “Why We Fight” is a documentary on the dangers that were alluded to by President...
by natecooper | Apr 3, 2006 | movie reviews, movies, nate
I wrote a review for “Why We Fight” and “Thank You for Smoking simultaneously. You can find the dual review here: http://natecooper.net/nate2/04/03/2006/103
by natecooper | Dec 30, 2005 | movie reviews, movies
Spielberg has certainly been growing a conscious these days even if he’s still the sentimentalist at heart. Perhaps it was the work on adapting Kubrick that reminded him of the world around him. Of course one can harken back to such PC works as Schindler’s...