Articles by James Keast

Fast Food Nation

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

It seems most obvious that Eric Schlosser’s food industry indictment Fast Food Nation would be turned into a documentary. But Morgan Spurlo...

Letters From Iwo Jima

Clint Eastwood

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

There’s much to be admired about Clint Eastwood (a master director at the top of his game and no less ambitious at age 76) and about Letter...

Casino Royale

Martin Campbell

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

There’s a huge gulf between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig and it’s not about the blond hair. From the candy-coated Technicolor of the las...

Carnivale: Season Two

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2007

What if you spent two years planning for and awaiting an apocalypse that never came? That’s where Carnivale creator Daniel Knauf found hims...

Television: Year in Review 2006

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2007

1. Battlestar Galactica 2. The Colbert Report 3. Veronica Mars 4. The Office 5. The Wire In 1992, Bruce Springsteen had a minor radio hit...

Zodiac

David Fincher

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2007

The serial killer film has become such an exploited cliché that one approaches such things with trepidation. However, Zodiac director David...

Babel

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

The value of human life, the hope of communication in a global village and the strength of community versus the right of individual determi...

The Departed

Martin Scorsese

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

He’s only made five films set in the criminal underground, Martin Scorsese points out in a DVD featurette, and as unlikely as that seems, i...