All articles by David Kempler

The story of the great racehorse has been reduced to a slickly-produced, shiny, pretty thing that is nice to look at but, for the most part, incredibly vapid.

A peek into the world of young John Lennon made me think I was in for heavy-handed junk. Instead, I got a pretty neat little film. Imagine.

Hallucinogenic interpretaion of a drug dealer’s death in Tokyo is mind-numbingly tedious. Most annoying film of the year, hands-down.

Doc chronicles the migratory life of millions of Chinese workers, all trying to make it home for New Years, only to head back to work a few days later.

Documentary about a young art prodigy and her family turns out to be about nothing of the kind. What it does turn out to be is both fun and bizarre.

Newer footage adds a different meaning to a "documentary" shot by the Third Reich in the Warsaw ghetto, a month before the residents were shipped to Treblinka and, in most cases, their deaths.

NFL player earning megabucks forsakes it all to join the armed forces, as a response to 9/11, only to turn out being a pawn for government desires.

An older version of Ma Barker rules a badly misbehaved family that just can’t stay out of trouble, in this Aussie film noir/gangster flick.

Crime and corruption in the Dominican Republic take center-stag, in a story about revenge and redemption. You won’t be bored, but you won’t be much else either.

Lisbeth is back and better than ever in the second installment of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy about a pint-sized lady that packs a huge wallop.