Movies & TV - Oct. 22, 2007
"Rendition" falls flat
Director Gavin Hood's "Rendition" has all the makings of a great film. But it proves not to be so easy, as the product is less than the sum of its parts.
Tags: Rendition, Meryl Streep, Witherspoon, terrorism, CIA, Metwally, Gavin Hood, Extraordinary Rendition, Jame Gyllenhaal

Movies & TV - March 30, 2006
"Tsotsi" rides line between touching and tepid
Tsotsi is a cold-blooded thug, until he shoots a mother and takes her baby. Then the story becomes -- depending on your view -- either an uplifting story of emotional redemption and rebirth or a hackneyed, over-simplified story of emotional redemption and rebirth.
Tags: Tsotsi, South Africa, township, Johannesburg, Gavin Hood, Athol Fugard, Presley Chweneyagae