.Jeff Latta

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Apr 15, 2009

Thirlwell Thrills Well

04.15.09It's a little coincidental that The Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick came up with his ambitious Adult Swim cartoon while listening to JG Thirlwell's...
Jun 18, 2008

Hop On!

06.18.08Rejecting the detachment and often harsh realism of the popular French New Wave cinema movement, the award-winning 1981 film Diva helped usher in the...
Aug 29, 2007

‘The 11th Hour’

08.29.07As a warning about global warming, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was surely direct, but it was also relatively polite. The former vice president...
May 23, 2007

Riffin’ On It

May 23-29, 2007 Making fun of movies is pretty easy. But making fun of movies well is another matter entirely, because for every well-placed one-liner...
May 16, 2007

Smart-Ass Sage

May 16-22, 2007While the gifted white rapper isn't quite as rare a beast as it used to be, it is still a singular animal...
Apr 4, 2007

NO Foolin’

April 4-10, 2007 Leave it to accomplished director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, Casanova, My Life as a Dog) to accomplish the unexpected...
Sep 20, 2006

Morsels

September 20-26, 2006 In the vast galactic history of Heavenly Hamburgers, my time as chief grill master--OK, so I made that title up--was but a...
Jan 11, 2006

‘Casanova’

Super 'Nova'Casanova' swaggers its way onscreen with playfulness to spareBy Jeff LattaComing a long way from his start directing ABBA's music videos, Lasse Hallström...
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