Luke Baynes is a graduate of the University of Vermont. An aficionado of diners and the highways of America, he's most at home in a darkened movie theater as the lights begin to flicker. Send Luke your comments at lukebaynes@gmail.com.
It is with mixed emotions that I report that this will be my last article for Examiner.com.I am leaving my muse, the cinema, to pursue other endeavors in the art of journalism.But the movies – my first...
The Debt is half a good movie, with a sharp little Cold War spy story bookended by a muddled mess of a framing device.It begins in Tel Aviv, Israel, circa 1997. Estranged ex-spouses Rachel Singer (Helen...
Roman Polanski’s Cul-de-sac (1966) is an insufferably strange movie – at turns perversely funny and maddeningly tedious – but one which, if compared to Polanski’s earlier masterpiece Knife in the Water, offers some...
On June 15, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC’s Home Listing Report revealed that San Francisco was the 36th most expensive housing market in the United States from the period of September 2010 to March 2011, and that it...
I like a movie that tells you its entire premise in the title. At least you have no one but yourself to blame if your $9.50 went for naught.So it was that faced with the alternative of...
If you think pronouncing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s name is difficult, try explaining his latest movie.In the course of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, there’s a long scene of a water buffalo grazing in...
Despite its title, Beginners is rather advanced for a comedy, employing a flashback-heavy, almost stream-of-consciousness narrative structure. Part love story, part meditation on death, part gay rights treatise, it’s ultimately too ambitious for its...
“If the cinema no longer existed, Nicholas Ray alone gives the impression of being capable of reinventing it, and what is more, of wanting to,” Jean-Luc Godard wrote in an article titled “Rien que le cin...
The credits of The Thing from Another World state that it was produced by Howard Hawks and directed by a man named Christian Nyby, Hawks’ editor on To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Red River.Either...
In Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays Gil, a hack screenwriter and aspiring novelist whose idea of heaven on earth is Paris in the 1920s. He’s engaged to an annoying twit of a woman named Inez (Rachel...