PHO SAIGON
Call me a fool for pho. I could live exclusively on those big bowls of Vietnamese soup. If there’s anything I miss about living on the West Coast it’s the wide availability of pho: A fiver will get you pho — always filling, fresh, hot and every time just a little bit different. Ideally, each…
DAREDEVIL
From the bottom of his vengeance-fueled psyche to the tips of his cowl’s perky little horns, the comic-book hero Daredevil more than a little resembles Batman, a crusader who beat him both to the funny papers and the big screen. They share not only Gotham-sized chips on their shoulders, but also an affinity for the…
MORVERN CALLAR
Although it takes a while getting around to it, Morvern Callar eventually slips into the ultra-black comedy that writer/director Lynne Ramsay intends it to be. I think. After all, it’s Scottish, and this brand of macabre has been the official genre of Scottish cinema for maybe a decade now. And it involves a woman who…
THE HUNTED
A brief smirk reveals something interesting about William Friedkin’s new action picture The Hunted. A U.S. soldier whom we’ve just watched brutally take out a warlord in the slaughterhouse of Kosovo is receiving a medal for it. The officer bestowing the decoration says it symbolizes Sgt. Aaron Hallam’s commitment to “peace and democracy,” but at…
WILLARD
It is as plain as the very interesting nose on Crispin Glover’s face: The darkly comic new remake of the multi-rat horror movie Willard is a covert little War on Terror parable. “Sure,” you’re thinking. “So’s your old lady.” And you should be skeptical. After all, it’s even easier now than it was a year…
