Email Author Ernest Hardy

2012 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Bill W.

  published May 16, 2012

  The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the once-radical notion has is... More >>

• Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

  published May 16, 2012

  In an old news clip that is played in the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, a newscaster says, "You can tell a lot about... More >>

• The Perfect Family

  published May 2, 2012

  There's a vague echo of John Waters's film Serial Mom in director Anne Renton's The Perfect Family. But where Waters's satiric... More >>

• The Giant Mechanical Man

  published April 25, 2012

  Lee Kirk’s The Giant Mechanical Man wants to be both a wry, intelligent romantic comedy and a softly satiric look at the ways sensitive... More >>

• Restless City

  published April 25, 2012

  The stories and struggles of African immigrants in America are rarely told in American media and are notably missing from most dialogue around... More >>

• A Simple Life

  published April 11, 2012

  Director Ann Hui's Simple Life, a deceptively simple film, gingerly peels layer after layer of sharp insights into the dynamics of... More >>

• Deadline

  published April 11, 2012

  A based-on-true-events storyline that also carries faint echoes of the Trayvon Martin case (among countless others) gives director Curt Hahn's... More >>

• Surviving Progress

  published April 4, 2012

  Right from the start, the documentary Surviving Progress lets viewers know that there will be no easy answers to the questions it's... More >>

• Love in the Buff

  published March 28, 2012

  What do you do when you fall in love with someone who is absolutely wrong for you? That's the crux of writer-director Pang Ho... More >>

• The Raid: Redemption

  published March 21, 2012

  Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's... More >>

• Pray for Japan

  published March 14, 2012

  "Most people would cry out in pain," says a Japanese man in director Stu Levy's documentary Pray for Japan. "Our people accept it." He... More >>

• The Forgiveness of Blood

  published February 22, 2012

  Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of... More >>

• Public Disgrace

  published January 18, 2012

  There's a broodingly meditative tone to Chad Freidrichs's Pruitt-Igoe Myth, a film whose deceptively simple, by-the-books documentary... More >>

• The Front Line

  published January 18, 2012

  There’s a jolting moment in one of The Front Line’s early battle scenes in which a soldier rises from behind a barricade to... More >>