Thursday, October 22, 2009
Film This Week in Film: Crude and Ong Bak 2
Posted by Lindy West on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM
David Schmader on Crude:
On one side: the 30,000 residents of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, who claim that three decades of criminal irresponsibility by U.S. oil giant Texaco has so polluted the air, land, and water that the residents' very existence is in peril. On the other side: Texaco, which denies all claims of wrongdoing and is ready to spend unlimited millions to make sure the case never sees a courtroom.
And Andrew Wright on Ong Bak 2:
Set in 1421, and bearing only the slightest connection to the original film, the story follows the saga of Tien, an orphaned son of a nobleman who undergoes a series of deadly tests in order to fulfill his destiny as king of the pirates. Should you be burned out on the whole Joseph Campbell hero thing, be advised that said tests include swordfights, duking it out with a voracious vampire woman, and punching an elephant.
Read the full reviews (and more filmy stuff) HERE.
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