Articles by Erin Oke

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  Hollywood Homicide

  Ron Shelton

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Hollywood Homicide is a messy wreck of a movie. Billed as an "action/comedy," it fails on both counts, bogging down the action with numerou...

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  Spellbound

  Jeffrey Blitz

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Spellbound is the compelling Academy Award-nominated documentary film that follows the lives of eight young people as they prepare to compe...

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  The Safety of Objects

  Rose Troche

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  The Safety of Objects combines the feel of The Ice Storm and the form of Short Cuts to portray a community of neighbours in generic suburbi...

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  Holes

  Andrew Davis

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  Holes is a bizarre little movie, mixing the Disney-fication of troubled youth with two separate but vaguely intertwined multigenerational s...

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  Laurel Canyon

  Lisa Cholodenko

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  Laurel Canyon is an intimate and well drawn examination of a series of relationships on the verge of disintegration. After graduating from...

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  The Dancer Upstairs

  John Malkovich

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  John Malkovich makes his directorial debut with Nicholas Shakespeare's screen adaptation of his own novel about a civilian police inspector...

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  Willard

  Glen Morgan

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  If you are one of those people, as I am, who believes that Crispin Glover is just about the most fascinating and pleasurable actor to watch...

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  Darkness Falls

  Jonathan Liebesman

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  If it wasn't so darn stupid and poorly written, acted, and directed, you could almost admire Darkness Falls for its utter refusal to confor...