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2008 Stories by Ed Gonzalez

• Ciao, a Gay Amerindie Without Dick or Ass-Crack

  published December 3, 2008

  Compared to the likes of Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild, the willfully contrarian Ciao is practically Syndromes and a... More >>

• Gardens of the Night

  published November 5, 2008

  The title is the first sign that the audience is in for it. The second is a child's voice reading from The Jungle Book, and the third is... More >>

• A Whimsical Gust of Nothing in The Pleasure of Being Robbed

  published October 1, 2008

  Essentially a mumblecore version of Pickpocket—sans the moral and existential high stakes, and with dollops of Miranda... More >>

• Fireproof Appeals to the Indoctrinated

  published October 1, 2008

  When Capt. Caleb Holt (Kirk Cameron) decides to divorce his Sarah Palin–type wife, his bros at the firehouse come to his rescue with... More >>

• Taking Father Home

  published September 17, 2008

  From the rural Sichuan countryside to the city of Zigong, Xu Yun travels to find the father he hasn't seen in years, and the teenage boy's... More >>

• Béla Tarr's Magnificent Harmonies Gives Way to Anemic Noir in The Man From London

  published September 17, 2008

  How does one follow the seemingly insurmountable? If you're David Lynch, you remake Mulholland Drive's vision of the fractured self... More >>

• Latinbeat, Now With More Movies and More Chile

  published September 3, 2008

  Latinbeat, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's yearly survey of new and classic Latin-American films, is now twice as long and twice as... More >>

• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild

  published August 27, 2008

  Previously on Another Gay Movie, Todd Stephens's racist and pandering but almost canny response to American Pie, Nico thankfully... More >>

• My Mexican Shivah

  published August 27, 2008

  My Mexican Shivah kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict. In the Polanco quarter of Mexico City, a Jewish... More >>

• Searching For Substance Over Style At This Year's Korean Film Fest

  published August 19, 2008

  A Korean film festival without the belligerent aesthetics and sketchy moral plans of Kim Ki-duk and Park Chan-wook is practically a badge of... More >>

• The 3D Adventure Fly Me to the Moon

  published August 12, 2008

  The 3D adventure Fly Me to the Moon imagines an alternate history in which three adolescent houseflies stow away aboard Apollo 11,... More >>

• Brad Anderson's Transsiberian

  published July 16, 2008

  Though not one for literal smoke and mirrors, master of horror Brad Anderson, with his panache for arousing fear from harried reality and... More >>

• Ric Roman Waugh's Felon

  published July 16, 2008

  Clearly overcompensating for all the aggression that he couldn't get out of his system as the wheelchair-bound Augustus Hill on HBO's Oz... More >>

• Take

  published July 16, 2008

  Take sketchily crisscrosses narrative strands involving a man on death row and the working-class mother whose life he has ravaged.... More >>

• Full Grown Men: Dork Odyssey

  published June 24, 2008

  Essentially Judd Apatow's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Full Grown Men tells of a Comic Book Guy's Odyssean journey through a... More >>

• Newfest Turns 20

  published June 3, 2008

  Newfest, now in its 20th year of celebrating LGBT film, is geared to our motley gay community with painstaking regard, and one of its... More >>

• The Strangers: Old-School Spooker

  published May 27, 2008

  Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud's Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school... More >>

• Insidious: Not Quite Cleaver

  published May 20, 2008

  Would that Jerry Schram's bargain-basement digital cheapie Insidious had the blood and guts (and Baldwin brother) of Christopher... More >>

• Poultrygeist: Troma Reboots

  published May 6, 2008

  A blend of 11 herbs and spices accounts for the secret recipe for Colonel Sanders's Kentucky Fried Chicken. Less furtive and more bounteous are... More >>

• The Babysitters: Reductive, Painful Fun

  published May 6, 2008

  Used to be that babysitters only solved mysteries or got caught in the middle of Mafia deals. Now they're charging $200 to eat a cock-meat... More >>

• Hollywood Chinese's Placid History

  published April 29, 2008

  The most jarring thing about Hollywood Chinese, Arthur Dong's survey of Chinese representation in American film from the silent era to... More >>

• Tuya's Marriage

  published April 1, 2008

  Like The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong, Tuya's Marriage is partly an anthropological survey of Inner... More >>

• Chapter 27

  published March 25, 2008

  Jared Leto might win an Oscar next year if audiences are willing to look at Chapter 27 as an abstract of the rise to power of Perez... More >>

• Shelter

  published March 25, 2008

  Shelter bides its time with innocuous snapshots of local SoCal color—crashing waves, crystal-blue skies, natives who pronounce the... More >>

• A Four Letter Word

  published March 25, 2008

  In praise of Larry Kramer's Faggots, specifically its forked satire, author Reynolds Price wrote: "It offers us oddly entertaining,... More >>