Articles by Leo Petaccia

Entourage Season Three Part 2

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2007

Hot rising star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier, getting by further on pretty eyes than just about any living actor) is surfing the crest of...

We Own the Night

James Gray

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2007

Whatever happened to the good old "policier”? It seems like eons ago when Scorsese shovelled shit to show us how cops and robbers really ge...

The Prisoner: or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Petra Epperlein

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2007

Yunis Khatayer Abbas, like countless other Iraqi journalists, has a sad story to tell. Abbas was arrested and taken from his home by Americ...

The Kingdom

Peter Berg

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Kingdom, or CSI: Saudi Arabia. Seriously, when everything’s said and done, it feels like you’ve just e...

My Enemy's Enemy (Mon Meilleur Ennemi)

Kevin MacDonald

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

What’s clear here is that director Kevin Macdonald is angry at two groups: the Nazis and the U.S. government. His argument claims that the...

Rendition

Gavin Hood

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

In director Gavin Hood’s (Totsi) take on our post-9/11 times, the White House tortures innocent people and manages to get away with it. Our...

Captain Mike Across America

Michael Moore

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

It’s disturbing to see the lengths people go to promote themselves. Take Michael Moore, for example. Sure, the man may mean well, and his f...

Ex Drummer

Koen Mortier

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

Dries is a novelist who happens to know a thing or two about banging the skins. He enjoys weekly threesomes, chain smoking and frequent cur...