Email Author Michelle Orange

2011 Stories by Michelle Orange

• Into the Abyss Review

  published November 10, 2011

  An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into... More >>

• Revenge of the Electric Car Review

  published October 20, 2011

  I couldn't get my parents to watch Who Killed the Electric Car, Chris Paine's indictment of the forces that brought down a promising... More >>

• America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments Review

  published October 13, 2011

  A follow-up to director Darryl Roberts's 2008 inquiry into this country's ad-bolstered beauty standards, America the Beautiful 2: The Thin... More >>

• Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace Review

  published October 13, 2011

  Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace opens with a four-minute history of 4,000 years worth of conflict in the Middle East. Although... More >>

• Hell and Back Again Review

  published October 13, 2011

  Director Danfung Dennis's Hell And Back Again seeks to document the personal experience of war with extreme and sustained intimacy.... More >>

• A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Review

  published September 1, 2011

  A group of 30-somethings trapped in the amber of their high school years attempt to bone their way into adulthood in A Good Old Fashioned... More >>

• Griff the Invisible Review

  published August 18, 2011

  An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie. Griff... More >>

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  Good Neighbors Review

  published July 28, 2011

  Set in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal during Quebec's 1995 secession referendum,Good Neighbors uses a dark... More >>

• The Bang Bang Club

  published April 21, 2011

  THE BANG BANG CLUB “Yes, I think we all used her,” Eve Arnold once said of Marilyn Monroe. “I think as a... More >>

• Henry's Crime

  published April 14, 2011

  HENRY’S CRIME A low-blood-sugar heist movie set in the tumbleweed thoroughfares of downtown Buffalo, Henry’s Crime... More >>

• Meet Monica Velour

  published April 7, 2011

  MEET MONICA VELOUR "You screw a few hundred guys and the whole world turns against you," says Linda Romanoli (Kim Cattrall) in... More >>

• An Affirmative Act

  published March 31, 2011

  AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT A promising story obscured by showy genre twists, An Affirmative Act is launched as a social-issue tract about... More >>

• Cat Run

  published March 31, 2011

  CAT RUN There’s this woman named Cat (Paz Vega), see, and she’s on the run. She’s running from “the... More >>

• Lord of the Dance 3D

  published March 17, 2011

  LORD OF THE DANCE 3D Michael Flatley knows what you think of him. He's heard it all — cantering megalomaniac,... More >>

• Carbon Nation

  published February 17, 2011

  CARBON NATION Built more like an education module than a documentary, Carbon Nation might make you nostalgic for... More >>