Articles by Erin Oke

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  The Namesake

  Mira Nair

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2007

  The Namesake is a wonderful new film from Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair. Based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake follows two...

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  Babel

  Alejandro Iñárritu

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  As Alejandro Iñárritu’s previous work demonstrated (21 Grams, Amores Perros), the director has a bleak worldview and Babel is no exception....

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  The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Set in the Arctic Circle in 1922, the film takes as its source material the titular journals of a Danish explorer who chronicled the meetin...

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  Idlewild

  Bryan Barber

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Starring the boys from OutKast, Idlewild is a visually and aurally slick gangster movie set in Prohibition-era small town Georgia. The stor...

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  All The King's Men

  Steven Zaillian

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  All the King’s Men, based on the Robert Penn Warren novel and remade from the 1949 Oscar winning picture, starts off promisingly, following...

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  Shadowboxer

  Lee Daniels

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Shadowboxer is a totally hateful and irredeemable film. It’s violent, exploitative, misogynist and just plain stupid.The bizarre story sees...

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  Hate Crime

  Tommy Stovall

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Hate Crime is a moralistic thriller about a gay couple whose lives are destroyed by the homophobic zealot who moves in next door.Robbie and...

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  The Proposition

  John Hillcoat

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Written by Nick Cave, The Proposition is a sparse western set in outback Australia in the 1880s. In the wake of a horrific killing of a fam...