Articles by Kenneth Brown

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

February 15, 2007 // 0 Comments

"There are clergy in the room. These are moral censors…" The Motion Picture Association of America, a bitter cocktail that's blessed and haunted the film industry since its inception, comes under fire in this documentary from Oscar [...]

Windtalkers

February 14, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Protect the code…" No one can argue that World War II defined a generation. It was the last war with American involvement that wasn't ravaged by criticism… the enemy was evil, our responsibility was clear, and men were willing [...]

Marebito

February 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

"The thing we call terror is actually ancient wisdom… locked away in our unconscious mind." I find something inherently chilling about the tone Asian directors bring to traditional horror stories. Some of the most profoundly unsettling [...]

Babel

February 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Kill me… but save my brother. He did nothing… nothing! Save my brother… he did nothing." As we've stretched to the heavens to learn more about the world around us, human society has never seemed more immense than it does in the 21st [...]

Employee of the Month

February 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

"He's the alpha male of the store. Chicks always go after the alpha male… they're like lions, kings of the desert. And you? You're just a little, tiny fieldmouse dangling in the teeth of the lion while he's banging your [...]

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

February 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

"The world needs what we do. That makes us good guys. That's enough for me." When Mike Mignola launched "Hellboy" on the comics scene in 1993, he was unprepared for the overwhelming praise and adoration his character would elicit [...]

Crank

February 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Don't talk to him like that! My boyfriend kills people!" Drivel: it's a word you don't hear very often, but try saying it… it rolls right off the tongue. Drivel. Besides being all but forgotten in the English language, [...]

The Lake House

February 8, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I've been trying to forget you… and forgive you." As I sat watching "The Lake House" in the comfort of my home theater, I found myself coming to the slow realization that I needed to hate this film. My fascination with [...]

Black Rain

February 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Theft is theft. There is no gray area." Ah… the eighties. I came in on the front end of this decadent, cheese-filled era at the ripe, old age of two and checked into the nineties when I was nearly twelve. I remember being fascinated by the [...]

Black Rain

February 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Theft is theft. There is no gray area." Ah… the eighties. I came in on the front end of this decadent, cheese-filled era at the ripe, old age of two and checked into the nineties when I was nearly twelve. I remember being fascinated by the [...]
1 2 3 4