http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/up-in-the-air/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/up-in-the-air/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:01:43 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6865 George Clooney) has an amiable disposition that belies the fact that it’s best to stay out of his path. You see he’s a high-priced assassin. Not the typical sort of movie killer that shoots to kill, but a contemporary gun for hire who walks into a corporate boardroom and systematically calls in the staff and in the nicest, most professional way, hands them their walking papers.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/up-in-the-air/feed/ 1 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/the-young-victoria/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/the-young-victoria/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:54 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6860 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/the-young-victoria/feed/ 1 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-city-of-life-and-death/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-city-of-life-and-death/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:43 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=2234 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-city-of-life-and-death/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-red-cliff/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-red-cliff/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:09 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=2231 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-red-cliff/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/vantage-point-2008/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/vantage-point-2008/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:53:00 +0000 Len Klady http://localhost:8888/?p=390 Vantage Point, a political thriller revolving around the kidnapping of the American president. And there’s nothing especially compelling, riveting, novel or informative about this exercise in the anxiety rising genre. It’s not unlike an episode of the series 24, but without the attitude or urgency that’s made the television drama a schedule highlight.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/vantage-point-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/blog-the-line/the-pink-panther-2/ http://www.btlnews.com/blog-the-line/the-pink-panther-2/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:47:16 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9546 Steve Martin).]]> http://www.btlnews.com/blog-the-line/the-pink-panther-2/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/theatrical/confessions-of-a-shopaholic/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/theatrical/confessions-of-a-shopaholic/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:38:50 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9543 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/theatrical/confessions-of-a-shopaholic/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-slumdog-millionaire/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-slumdog-millionaire/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:27:00 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=599 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the meantime there’s Slumdog Millionaire, a film made in Mumbai and environs that’s culturally driven by Brits but tells a story about modern India in a style that’s strongly indebted to Bollywood cinema.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-slumdog-millionaire/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-reader/ http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-reader/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:28:00 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=601 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Valkyrie and Good reminding us of the infinite facets of evil. The Reader, based on the acclaimed recent novel by Bernhard Schlink, is a slightly different window on the past. One might call it an untypical and more nuanced coming-of-age saga. And while it falls short of plumbing the depths of its inspiration, the film nonetheless poses the right unsettling questions although it tends to leave the viewer with an insufficient grasp of the intrinsic moral dilemma.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/film-reviews/review-the-reader/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/steven-soderbergh-on-directing-and-lensing-che/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/steven-soderbergh-on-directing-and-lensing-che/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:42:10 +0000 Len Klady http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9584 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/steven-soderbergh-on-directing-and-lensing-che/feed/ 0