Day: February 17, 2006

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Young, a child of Canada (born in Toronto, moved to Los Angeles in 1966), is followed closely in this film, but not in the conventional manner. Instead of featuring long stretches of interviews about his childhood, his aspirations, the road to fame, etc. the film tightens its focus on one performance at the Ryamn Auditorium in Nashville. This is an …

Eight Below

Maybe Disney has learned a few things. Then again, maybe not. Attempting perhaps to cash in on the success of their Buena Vista release “Snow Dogs” (2002), Disney treats us to another movie about sled dogs. This time, the story takes place in Antarctica, where the National Science Foundation’s expeditionary team is aided by Gerry…

Freedomland

So I thought, “Julianne Moore… missing kid… What is this, ‘The Forgotten 2’?” That it was not… But I couldn’t quite figure out what else it was trying to be. What initializes as a story about a missing kid becomes a mishmash of subplots between the angry cop brother (Ron Eldard as Danny Martin) who wants justice, the creepy “Friends of Kent” consultant—i.e. finder of lost children—Karen Collucci (Edie Falco), the seemingly drugged out Brenda Martin (Moore) and the residents…