Email Author Ernest Hardy

2010 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Julie Taymor's Other Tempest

  published December 8, 2010

  In Julie Taymor’s hands, Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen... More >>

• Undertow: A Haunting Peruvian Ghost Story

  published November 24, 2010

  Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Undertow, is sublime. Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian fishing... More >>

• Me, Too: Living With Down Syndrome, Romantic Foibles and All

  published November 17, 2010

  Thirty-four-year-old Daniel (Pablo Pineda) is trapped between opposing worlds—internal and external, his truth and what the world projects... More >>

• In Nothing Personal, Two Isolationists Thaw for Each other

  published November 17, 2010

  In her tale of a brusque, prickly young Dutch woman who inexplicably cuts herself off from the world, except for a heavily circumscribed... More >>

• The General Who Couldn't Save Rwanda in Shake Hands With the Devil

  published November 10, 2010

  The 2004 documentary Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire is brutal viewing, recounting the experiences of... More >>

• In Mockumentary The Magician, Hit Men Have Feelings Too

  published November 10, 2010

  Ye gods, it's another mockumentary. In this one, Melbourne hit man Ray Shoesmith (Scott Ryan, who also wrote, directed, and produced the film... More >>

• Unlikely Couple on the Run in Carmo, Hit the Road

  published October 13, 2010

  In the Brazilian film Carmo, Hit the Road, writer-director Murilo Pasta has crafted a road-movie-meets-heist-film driven less by the... More >>

• Faith and Unlikely Redemption in Letters to Father Jacob

  published October 6, 2010

  There’s a sparse elegance to writer-director Klaus Härö’s Letters to Father Jacob, a lean, engrossing character... More >>

• Losing Sight but Full of Insight in Going Blind

  published October 6, 2010

  The word “inspirational” is so overused as to be hackneyed, but writer-director Joe Lovett’s documentary Going... More >>

• Hong Kong Sweats (and Aches) Through Hot Summer Days

  published September 29, 2010

  Hot Summer Days, directed by Wing Shya and Tony Chan, and written by Chan and Lucretia Ho, is the kind of film where pretty girls work... More >>

• The Big Easy Indicts the Manmade Disasters of Katrina

  published September 22, 2010

  Written and directed by New Orleans resident Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy illustrates in detail what many folks intuited or pieced... More >>

• Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver Deserve So Much Better than You Again

  published September 22, 2010

  There's a dance-off in You Again that pits the four lead female characters against one another in what's meant to be a laugh-riot of... More >>

• Francois Ozon Returns to His Familiar Well in Hideaway

  published September 8, 2010

  There are actually two hideaways in François Ozon's meditative Hideaway—the gorgeous, sparsely furnished apartment used as... More >>

• 1950s America, According to Rob Reiner, in Flipped

  published August 25, 2010

  You'll be forgiven for groaning through the first 20 minutes of Rob Reiner's Flipped, which kicks off in a key of aggressively... More >>

• When Mississippi Burned--and What Happened After--in Neshoba

  published August 11, 2010

  If Andrew Breitbart's recent sliming of Shirley Sherrod ultimately shows how far this country still has to go on matters of race, the... More >>

• How the Mormon Church Brought Down the Gays in 8: The Mormon Proposition

  published June 15, 2010

  Grinning into the camera, a young Mormon in a Prop. 8 commercial highlighted in 8: The Mormon Proposition gushes that her activism... More >>

• Shrek Forever After, Fourth and Final in the Series

  published May 18, 2010

  In this fourth and final installation in the Shrek franchise, our green hero feels emasculated by the grind of domesticity (marriage,... More >>

• Stellar Acting, Gorgeous Composition in Women Without Men

  published May 11, 2010

  Adapted from Shahrnoush Parsipour's novel of the same name, Women Without Men opens with an act of suicide and the voiceover, "And I... More >>

• Sarab S. Neelam's Ocean of Pearls

  published May 4, 2010

  Culture clashes on macro and micro scales, occurring all at once, are what drive doctor-turned-filmmaker Sarab S. Neelam’s... More >>

• The Ramshackle Behind the Burly Q Entertains Utterly

  published April 20, 2010

  Although now swathed in nostalgic longing/hipster appropriation, the art of burlesque was once a vibrant, multi-tiered cultural... More >>

• Queer-Film Triple Bill Manuela y Manuel, Dream Boy, Just Say Love

  published March 24, 2010

  In its second rollout of a queer-film triple bill, Gay.com offers another mixed bag of fare. The weakest of the trio is Raúl Marchand... More >>

• Waking Sleeping Beauty

  published March 24, 2010

  Last fall saw the release of the documentary Walt & El Grupo, about Walt Disney and a team of his most talented animators trekking to... More >>

• Michael Madsen Laughably Bad in The Killing Jar

  published March 16, 2010

  When a filmmaker sets a group of innocents in a dead-end restaurant and has them terrorized by a crazed gunman, it's probably not his goal to... More >>

• (White, Male) Screenwriters Speak in Tales From the Script

  published March 9, 2010

  Not surprisingly for a documentary on the trials, tribulations, and occasional triumphs of being a Hollywood screenwriter, Tales From the... More >>

• Anthony Hopkins Can't Save The Wolfman

  published February 9, 2010

  The Wolfman has it all: mist drifting over moonlit moors; Geraldine Chaplin as a gypsy fortune-teller; a dark, gloomy castle full of... More >>