All Articles by Dan Dugan

STILL WAITING… Blu-ray Review

Posted: May 16th, 2011 at 6:00 am

Looking for bad business with employees who talk dirty, gorging on overrated sexual pleasure? That’s what it boils down to when you get two restaurants competing for the best service and management, where the need for scantily-clad women seems to be a necessity. And when it comes to the tagline being, “hungry for more?”, you know it’s not about the food. Still Waiting… overcooks the comedy formula of slap-stick and graphic humor, with only tidbits of enjoyable irony and wanna-be passion, all a wasteful pile of ridiculous conflict with no dignity. Hit the jump for my full review.

BEHEMOTH DVD Review

Posted: May 12th, 2011 at 5:20 am

“From the depths of the Earth it will rise!” Sounds like the world’s impending doom has been brought to our television screens again. Buildings crashing, roads splitting, rocks tumbling, people screaming, mysteries wavering, science absolute, and a monster exasperating. Underneath all of the rubble, only one thing remains: too many questions. If Behemoth is to be the end of the world, was it meant to be this unreasonable and pathetic? Hit the jump for my full review.

Spike Lee’s IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON’T RISE DVD Review

Posted: May 9th, 2011 at 6:00 am

It was the winner of 3 primetime Emmys, including 4 other wins and 8 nominations: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Such a documentary presented by BBC was said to be a “haunting look” at what destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans back in 2005, and the one-and-only director, Spike Lee, was “in a fine muckraking mood” when filming that production. But that’s not the end of the story. Now we have If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, a 4-hour sequel that covers life after Katrina: a crippled, but determined community wanting to restore their healthcare, education, housing, economic development, and law and order.

But it is faced with “unprecedented adversity”: the government conspires to get rid of poor people, fails to meet the needs of its citizens, and confronts one of the worst natural disasters in history, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But the most pressing question is: what future waits for the people of New Orleans? To answer this, If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise unites people from former governmental officials to local Louisianan families to sit down and frame their opinion of the situation at hand. Some of them begin pointing fingers at each other, and when these fingers go jabbing, they jab hard. Hit the jump for my full review.

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