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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, directed and written by Adam McKay of Saturday Night Live fame, purports to be the story of the first female to anchor the television newscast of a major city in the 1970s but ends up as a farcical story about male chauvinism carried to such extremes that filmviewers will

Secret Window, directed by David Koepp, is based on Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990). Those expecting the usual Stephen King histrionics are bound to be disappointed; the characters are frightened by events, but the audience of the film is likely to view the developments more calmly. Chronologically, the story begins in midwinter,

TEAM AMERICA SHOULD BE ARRESTED BY THE WORLD POLICE Team America: World Police, directed by Trey Parker, is an insult to those who died on 9/11 rather than a clever satire of the war on terrorism.  Audiences laugh at rather than with the movie. Presumably, no actor could be found to agree to play a

A KOREAN FILM DEPICTS WAR AS AN INCUBATOR FOR THE DEHUMANIZATION OF WARRIORS Korea’s Civil War is relived through the fictional experiences of two brothers in Taegukgi Hwinalraimyeo (Korean Flag Waving Victoriously), South Korea’s top moneymaking film. When the film begins, an artifact is discovered at an archaeological site, identified by lettering on a pen

Anatomie 2, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a German film that is a sequel to the director’s Anatomie (2000). Both films ask questions about medical ethics by positing the Nazi quest for a master race as an ultimate goal of medical research. When the film begins, Jo Hauser (played by Barnaby Metschurat) challenges Dr. Charles

The Village is obviously allegorical, but different filmviewers will probably see different lessons. To conjecture about the allegory in a review, however, requires a “spoiler” on the manifest content of the film. Edward Walker (played by William Hurt) evidently is a millionaire who bought a large plot of land and designated that area as a