Jameson Kowalczyk

District B13 is one of the most entertaining films ever made. It’s an action movie that takes place in France circa 2010 where a wall (circa John Carpenter’s Escape from New York) has been built around the city’s most dangerous ghetto, District B13. When a nuclear weapon (a ‘clean bomb’ with the unique feature of detonating without leaving a radioactive fallout cloud) falls into the hands of the B13’s crime syndicate, Damien (Cyril Raffaelli), a cop with nearly super-human athletic ability must infiltrate B13 and defuse the bomb. He is partnered with Leito (David Belle), a convict with even more super-human like athletic ability, a one time citizen of B13 whose goal is to rescue his sister who has been kidnapped by B13’s boss criminal.

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Park Chan-wook proves once again he is both a visionary – and re-visionary – filmmaker with his latest work, a philosophical meditation on politics, religion, revenge, feminism, violence and redemption.

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In her 2000, film American Psycho, writer/director Mary Harron (see also, I Shot Andy Warhol) explored America’s relationship with and reaction to violence – or perhaps, lack of reaction. Now Harron brings us The Notorious Bettie Page, the story of the 1950s pin-up model who would go on to become a cult icon of sexuality. With this film Harron has explored America’s relationship with and reaction – or perhaps more accurately, overreaction – to sex. Though NBP is a much sweeter, more optimistic work that Harron’s previous films, it is no less thematically complicated and raises significant questions about many aspects of American society both past and present, ranging from sex and religion to politics and capitalism.