Film Reviews


	Death Race by M. Faust
	The summer of 2008 began with a very bad movie about car racing, Speed Racer, and now it grinds to a halt with another one, Death Race.
	The Rocker by M. Faust
	Take the director of The Full Monty, give him a script by one writer-producer who did a lot of work on The Larry Sanders Show, and another who was just as involved with The Simpsons, cast an ensemble with experience in just about every worthwhile television comedy of the past decade, and what do you get?
	Bottle Shock by M. Faust
	In 1976, when California wines were regarded on the international market about the same way that kung fu movies were at the Academy Awards, a tasting competition was held in Paris between some Napa Valley product and the homegrown. In a blind sampling, the Parisian panel was shocked to discover that the wine they rated highest was a California chardonnay.
	The Last Mistress by George Sax
	Catherine Breillat’s The Last Mistress is a frequently bloody movie, but not really a violent one. Blood is shed with a knife edge, gunshot, whiplash, scalpel, and broken glass, in a chicken killing and an aborted birth. Breillat isn’t exploiting brutality; she’s trying to make a point through the sanguinary imagery.

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