Parallax View

[Originally published in Queen Anne & Magnolia News, June 2, 2010] Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy light up the third week of the festival Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (Jessica Oreck, USA, 2009; 91 mins.) Buried in this all-over-the-map meditation on Japan’s fascination with insects are lovely, nearly mystical moments. Did you know that there’s [...]

Centurion (UK, dir/scr: Neil Marshall) — “My name is Quintus Dias and this is neither the beginning nor the end of my story.” With Michael Fassbender (crisply stalwart in Inglorious Basterds and hauntingly resolute in Hunger) as a loyal and valiant Roman Centurion and Neil Marshall (the once and future hope of savagely smart British [...]