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Jun. 12th, 2009
The Big Hate
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: June 11, 2009
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: June 11, 2009
Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. More
Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role of “Brüno,” a comedy that trafficks in homosexual stereotypes. More Photos >
By BROOKS BARNES
Published: June 11, 2009
LOS ANGELES
SACHA BARON COHEN recently approached Elton John through a representative. Could he use “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Mr. John’s hit song from “The Lion King,” for a pivotal scene in his forthcoming movie? More
Moon (2008)
Jun. 12th, 2009 06:37 am
An scene from "Moon," directed by Duncan Jones.
June 12, 2009
Planet Earth Is Blue and So Very Far Away
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: June 12, 2009
Most science-fiction movies these days are lavish, large-scale spectacles, delivering the thrills of interplanetary travel or dystopian speculation at the risk of grandiosity and cartoonishness. In a film like J. J. Abrams’s “Star Trek,” or on television’s “Battlestar Galactica,” outer space can seem awfully crowded. “Moon,” Duncan Jones’s modest, haunting first feature, offers something of an antidote, presenting a vision of life beyond Earth that emphasizes claustrophobia and loneliness. More
Blast! (2008)
Jun. 12th, 2009 06:48 am
The balloon so essential to the science mission documented in “Blast!”
Up in the Air
By NATHAN LEE
Published: June 12, 2009
“Blast!” is about a bunch of nerds in Sweden mucking about with an unfathomable contraption attached to a hot air balloon. Destined for a flight to Northern Canada, the thingamajig does eventually become airborne but doesn’t quite work and ends up landing a few hundred miles off course, necessitating a complicated retrieval operation in the company of an armed Inuit to make sure that the group isn’t eaten by polar bears. More
Wot's the Ultimate Minnesotan?
Jun. 12th, 2009 08:30 amThe ultimate European — he combines British efficiency, French moral courage, Italian fighting spirit, and a German sense of humor, in short, he is a Belgian — is, no doubt unfair. But funny. Link
Canada could have had American know-how, British government and French culture. Instead it got French government, British know-how and American culture. Link