The Review Revue
Issue date: 2/3/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
The acting works well: Frank Langella IS Nixon, Michael Sheen IS Frost. They're believable and the supporting players are just as astonishing as the main duellists. The dialogue is clever and accurate and delivered exceptionally.
Sam Rockwell and Oliver Platt in one corner defending the freedom of free speech, Kevin Bacon in the opposite, defending politics and humanity. Howard's camera changes gears depending on the emotion shown in front of it. Static at times of desperate confrontations between man vs. man and man vs. himself, while other times calm and calculated, portraying a quiet pretence before an attacking shitstorm of verbal action.
The greatest point of Frost/Nixon, in a film sense, is the script itself, followed by the acting deliverance and tied up together through camera style reflective to flex emotion in its audience.
-Giordan Kovacs
Classic Cut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaugterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, the 1969 novel by the late Kurt Vonnegut, is a post-modern anti-war science fiction novel that focuses on Billy Pilgrim and his experiences with war and time travel. Sound strange? Well, it is, but more importantly, it's effective.
First, Pilgrim is captured by Germans in the Battle of the Bulge, then he becomes "unstuck in time" and ends up as an exhibit in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, then, after learning of the Tralfamadorians beliefs on life, he is able to jump from different situations in his life.
This novel is a terribly difficult one to explain, but its themes of fate, free will and human nature are easy to understand when read. Alongside Vonnegut's trademark dark humour, it goes beyond just an interesting read to a flat-out enjoyable one.
Slaughterhouse-Five is easily among Vonnegut's best works, alongside Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. The tragedy of his 2007 death will only live to further this fantastic author's influence on literature.
I've always wanted an excuse to tell people that Vonnegut is a genius, and this column provided a great opportunity. I recall reading Vonnegut's entire catalogue while sitting in front of my locker in high school, and recall laughing endlessly to myself while doing so. If ever you find yourself with some time to read a classic, pick up Slaughterhouse-Five and lose yourself in its otherworldly ideas.
Sam Rockwell and Oliver Platt in one corner defending the freedom of free speech, Kevin Bacon in the opposite, defending politics and humanity. Howard's camera changes gears depending on the emotion shown in front of it. Static at times of desperate confrontations between man vs. man and man vs. himself, while other times calm and calculated, portraying a quiet pretence before an attacking shitstorm of verbal action.
The greatest point of Frost/Nixon, in a film sense, is the script itself, followed by the acting deliverance and tied up together through camera style reflective to flex emotion in its audience.
-Giordan Kovacs
Classic Cut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaugterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, the 1969 novel by the late Kurt Vonnegut, is a post-modern anti-war science fiction novel that focuses on Billy Pilgrim and his experiences with war and time travel. Sound strange? Well, it is, but more importantly, it's effective.
First, Pilgrim is captured by Germans in the Battle of the Bulge, then he becomes "unstuck in time" and ends up as an exhibit in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, then, after learning of the Tralfamadorians beliefs on life, he is able to jump from different situations in his life.
This novel is a terribly difficult one to explain, but its themes of fate, free will and human nature are easy to understand when read. Alongside Vonnegut's trademark dark humour, it goes beyond just an interesting read to a flat-out enjoyable one.
Slaughterhouse-Five is easily among Vonnegut's best works, alongside Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. The tragedy of his 2007 death will only live to further this fantastic author's influence on literature.
I've always wanted an excuse to tell people that Vonnegut is a genius, and this column provided a great opportunity. I recall reading Vonnegut's entire catalogue while sitting in front of my locker in high school, and recall laughing endlessly to myself while doing so. If ever you find yourself with some time to read a classic, pick up Slaughterhouse-Five and lose yourself in its otherworldly ideas.
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