Articles by Erin O'Neill
The Misunderstanding
By Irène Némirovsky
PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2013
In her first novel, Irène Némirovsky follows a summer romance after the holiday ends and the mundanity of daily life resumes. Written when...
The Daughter
Thanos Anastopoulos
PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2013
The first few minutes of The Daughter, an unequivocal allegory about Greece's economic crisis, are fine, poetic and pointed: shots of fores...
Sweet Tooth
By Ian McEwan
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2013
"My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service. I...
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013
It's surprising when any film, let alone a crowd-pleaser anchored by Hollywood's beloved silver fox, succeeds in being scathing and smart,...
Olympus Has Fallen
Antoine Fuqua
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Olympus Has Fallen must've been a no-brainer for FilmDistrict, the U.S. distributor that brought such fare as Gerard Butler's Playing for K...
1Q84
By Haruki Murakami
PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013
In Haruki Murakami novels, strange incidents (that somehow don't seem all that strange in the context of their story) are interspersed with...
Quartet
Dustin Hoffman
PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2013
Following in the footsteps of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Quartet (Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut) is the latest movie to centre up...
The Dust Bowl
Ken Burns
PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2012
After watching Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl, a marvelously touching, illuminating and disturbing chronicle about the years-long, manmade enviro...
