Articles by Erin Oke
Four Brothers
John Singleton
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
Chock full of action and violence, Four Brothers is a revenge fantasy that pits truly evil criminals against criminals with hearts of gold....
Show Me
Cassandra Nicolaou
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
Show Me is a bleak film embodying many of the stereotypes that the Canadian film industry is desperately trying to shake off. Produced by t...
Mad Hot Ballroom
Marilyn Agrelo
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005
Mad Hot Ballroom is an extremely likeable documentary about a successful ballroom dancing program in New York City's public schools. The fi...
Social Genocide
Fernando E. Solanas
PUBLISHED May 1, 2005
Social Genocide is a very angry documentary that explores the massive governmental corruption and oppressive international financial burden...
Saint Ralph
Michael McGowan
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
Equal parts sweet, quirky and cheesy, Saint Ralph is the story of a fatherless teenager's quest to cure his mother of her comatose state by...
Turtles Can Fly
Bahman Ghobadi
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
Turtles Can Fly is a bleak yet touching look at a small community on the Turkey/Iran/Iraq border on the eve of the latest U.S. invasion. As...
Hotel Rwanda
Terry George
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004
Hotel Rwanda is an amazing film, devastatingly powerful in capturing simultaneously the best and the absolute worst aspects of humanity. Ba...
Silver City
John Sayles
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004
One of the leading voices in American independent film, John Sayles returns with yet another politically and socially relevant tale in Silv...