Rob Nelson

Anarchy in the U.K.: Bjrk takes to the stage.

Glastonbury: The Sound and the Filth

Rob Nelson
{mosimage} At a recent Sundance panel discussion called “The Times, Did They A-Change?,” rock-doc maker Julien Temple observed that the counterculture has always been basically the same except for the length and shape of its hair. “Old punks are just as bad as old hippies,” asserted the director who first......
Dont you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? (Photo by Bruce McBroom)

Norbit

Rob Nelson
Two Nutty Professor movies and Eddie Murphy still hasn’t gotten the split-personality shtick out of his system. Original nut Jerry Lewis would say that comedy is at least half rage, and Norbit, wherein Murphy plays a psychotic, gargantuan wife and the meek, battered husband of the title, is one mean......
Grand Jury Prizewinning film Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (Photo courtesy Sundance Film Festival)

Dissent for Sale

Rob Nelson
Even by the lacerating standards of recent Sundance docs Why We Fight and Iraq in Fragments, the nonfiction at this year’s fest felt, well, real — alarmingly so. Indeed, after doing battle with films about U.S. policies on Iraq, Darfur and global warming, this critic was nearly moved to rescind......

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Rob Nelson
Photo by Francois Duhamel NOTHING SEPARATES THE HAVES FROM THE have-nots like new technology. In the current comedy Lovely & Amazing, the penultimate sign of the Catherine Keener character's downward mobility in an age of digital cameras and Photoshop software is her employment at -- good heavens -- a one-hour......