http://www.theparallaxreview.com/ en Copyright 2012 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:00:00 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/executive_decision.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/executive_decision.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:00:00 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/high_plains_drifter.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/high_plains_drifter.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/the_war_of_the_roses.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/the_war_of_the_roses.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/freaked.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/freaked.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600 Powder is a mess of a film. But it wouldn’t be such a mess if there weren’t some interesting ideas and promising plot developments buried beneath a ton of pretentious metaphysical conceits and obvious manipulations on the part of writer/director Victor Salva.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/powder.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/powder.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 Regarding Henry’s sincerity is at once the movie’s crutch and its downfall. It is the story of a man of loose moral sensibilities who awakens to the recognition of treating his fellow human beings with decency, and all that has to happen to him to come to this realization is that he’s shot in the head.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/regarding_henry.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/regarding_henry.html On Cable Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/harry_and_tonto.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/harry_and_tonto.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:05 -0600 Flirting with Disaster finds the farcical in the emotionally fragile events surrounding a man’s search for his biological parents. At a crossroads in his life — new son (for whom he can’t decide upon a name), a fading sex life with his wife, and the culmination of a lifelong identity crisis arising from his adoption as a baby — Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) or his need to feel a part of something he’s felt he has been missing is never the butt of any of the film’s jokes.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/flirting_with_disaster.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/flirting_with_disaster.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:04 -0600 Funny Farm boasts a surprisingly impressive pedigree for a light Chevy Chase comedy. It was directed by George Roy Hill, a man who delivered two certifiable masterpieces in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid among other very good films (Slap Shot, Slaughterhouse-Five). It boasts a screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, ace screenwriter of such films as The Dead Zone, Innerspace, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Lethal Weapon 2. With this collection of unusually talented people behind the scenes, it’s not terribly surprising that the film turned out as well as it did. That praise isn’t to confuse it as a great film, but it’s an enjoyable comedy with a few big laughs.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/funny_farm.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/funny_farm.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:03 -0600 Top Gun all over again, without the planes, and with Charlie Sheen standing in for Tom Cruise.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/navy_seals.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/navy_seals.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/jack.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/jack.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600 Article 99 is a really bad movie, but it can be enjoyed under the pretense that inherent within is a truly ludicrous story with outlandish situations, zero note characters, shoddy sets, and bleeding-heart moralism sappy enough to send you into a shudder.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/article_99.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/article_99.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/the_woman_in_red.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/the_woman_in_red.html On Cable Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/less_than_zero.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/less_than_zero.html On Cable Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600 Gattaca seems a bit quainter than it did upon the film’s release fourteen years ago. What was a revolutionary premise about chiseling away the façade of a false utopia based upon the structured discrimination of people deemed genetically inferior (the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 appears almost a direct, if belated, response to the film’s scenario) is now simply the basis for an intelligent display of plotting an intricate con.]]> http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/gattaca.html http://www.theparallaxreview.com/on_cable/gattaca.html On Cable Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600