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• 12 Film Festival Preview + My Practice of Film Criticism

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Aug 13, 2004

• 11 DVD Review: Gus Van Sant's comeback film

  Gus Van Sant's Elephant moved me more than any other film I saw this year.

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Aug 09, 2004

• 10 Gut busters

  What would heterosexual filmmakers and scriptwriters do without homosexual panic to make their adolescent comedies?

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Aug 05, 2004

• 9 We don't need another hero

  The Terrorist

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Jul 29, 2004

• 8 He is 'borg

  In I, Robot, Will Smith gives the first adult performance since his breakout role in Ali. He's a haunted man in this one, not the jokey sidekick.

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Jul 24, 2004

• 7 Slow left hand

  Bernardo Bertolucci's sleek and dryly sex-obsessed The Dreamers contains hardly a passionate moment despite the full frontal nudity

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Jul 23, 2004

• 6 Tears are not enough

  The Corporation proves decisively that the documentary form is the most vibrant and vital it's been worldwide in quite some time.

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Jul 22, 2004

• 5 Falling asleep in the Cradle of Life

  Those cheesy sets! Those cheesy set-ups! I kept being reminded of nothing so much as Batman. And I don't mean the movies; I mean the series.

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Aug 06, 2003

• 4 Lessons from my Bible college past

  The Republican Bush administration behaves like a cult, not least in the way in which it refuses to be self-critical.

  in Politics — by Rick Powell — on Aug 05, 2003

• 3 Break the mold

  in Video — by Rick Powell — on Jun 12, 2003