Bernard Boo
667 articles written by Bernard Boo
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Dallas Buyers Club
Real-life figure Ron Woodruff was a self-proclaimed legend of the rodeo; a shit-kicking, wild-woman-wrangling, tough sumbitch who’d put up his dukes at the drop of a hat. In the mid-1980’s, the apex of the AIDS crisis in the U.S.,...
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The Motel Life
In The Motel Life, an adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novel, an intense brotherly love is the only thing keeping Frank and Jerry Lee (Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff, respectively) afloat amid a sea of deep-seeded problems. It’s as...
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Roger Ross Williams on ‘God Loves Uganda’ and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Roger Ross Williams’ deeply disturbing, eye-opening documentary, God Loves Uganda, explores the role White, evangelical Americans played in spreading anti-gay sentiment across the African country, which led–frighteningly–to Ugandan parliament proposing the Anti-homosexuality bill, which criminalizes homosexual relations and actions and...
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Spinning Plates
In Spinning Plates, a documentary for both rabid foodies and casual diners alike, we follow the stories of three restaurants, each operating in distant corners of the dining world, as their owners guide us to the the roots of their...
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Stephen Dorff and Gabe Polsky talk ‘The Motel Life’, Roles Worth Fighting For
Two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, are forced to live life on the run after Jerry Lee accidentally hits and kills a little boy while driving. With their lives slowly falling apart, the brothers must rely on and...
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God Loves Uganda
In the most infuriating, jaw-dropping piece of footage in Roger Ross Williams’ polemical documentary, God Loves Uganda, members of the Ugandan parliament are gathered in a room, cheering and chanting, elatedly rejoicing for the first reading of a newly...
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Ender’s Game
Ender’s Game is Gavin Hood’s (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular 1985 sci-fi novel about a gigantic, intergalactic war, the outcome of which relies on our eponymous hero, a pre-teen boy-genius. Hood’s film retains the thoughtfulness (however...
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Diana
Somehow, some way, director Oliver Hirschbiegel has managed to make one of the most enchanting, magnetic, ravishing people of the last century one of the dullest, lifeless movie subjects in recent memory. Diana, a wreck of a film, chronicles...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel talks ‘Diana’, Preserving the Princess’ Legacy
In Diana, director Oliver Hirschbiegel explores the passionate love affair that defined the twilight years of the most photographed person in history, Diana, Princess of Wales. Naomi Watts stars as the beloved Princess, with Naveen Andrews (LOST) playing the...
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Kill Your Darlings
Based on true events that took place in and around Colombia University in 1944, director John Krokidas‘ impressive debut feature, Kill Your Darlings, is a dark, moody tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder involving a handful of young men, unruly...
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John Krokidas Hopes ‘Kill Your Darlings’ Inspires a New Generation of Beatniks
Based on the real-life murder scandal involving the cornerstone figures of the Beat Generation, director John Krokidas’ debut feature, Kill Your Darlings, takes a look at the early, formative years of the Beats, when the visionary rabblerousers first began bouncing...
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All Is Lost
All is Lost reveals the true essence of who Robert Redford is as an actor as much as any other film in his career, which spans over half a century. It’s a story of survival at sea, stripped bare, down...
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Zaytoun
Director Eran Riklis awkwardly sets a breezy odd-couple road trip movie under the dark cloud of the Israeli-Arab conflict in Zaytoun. The extreme polarity Riklis’ heavy-handed, inappropriately silly humor and the horrifying depictions of the 1982 war in Lebanon...
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Gabriela Cowperthwaite Talks ‘Blackfish’ and the Secret Dangers of Sea World
In 2010, an animal trainer at Sea World named Dawn Brancheau was killed by a 12,000 pound killer whale named Tilikum. Blackfish, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, follows the story of Tilikum and explores what compelled a killer whale–a typically peaceful...
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is one of the most enduring social and pop culture figures of our time; he’s almost universally revered as an American icon and one of the best boxers to step into the ring . It’s quite fashionable these...