Finally saw Hollywoodland. It's a very good film hidden inside a very mediocre one. The good film stars Ben Affleck as George Reeves, the actor best remembered for playing Superman in the 1950's TV show. It paints Reeves as a tragic figure, and a pathetic one--one of those actors who hangs around Hollywood for years, … Continue reading Neither a Bird Nor a Plane

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Red Vic, Friday through Tuesday. A sad, harrowing, yet ultimately inspiring true story told with only moderate competence. Refugee All Stars focuses on six musicians, refugees from Sierra Leone’s horrifyingly brutal civil war, who came together in the Guinean refugee camps in which they’d lived for many years. In the … Continue reading Movies for the Week of March 30, 2007