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Articles by SONNY BUNCH

MOVIES: ‘Blindness’ stumbles despite pedigree

It's hard to say what's more annoying about "Blindness" - its relentlessly negative view of humanity's ability to handle crisis, or its vacuous moral stance suggesting violence is never the answer.

October 3, 2008

EDGE: Michael Cera and the death of irony

Michael Cera has developed broad appeal with both hipster tastemakers and the general public alike. His star turns could signal the beginning of a new era of comedy, one in which irony is out and sincerity is in.

October 3, 2008

BEYOND: ‘Genius’ wiped away

"Most crusader stories, David and Goliath stories, are stories about someone who was fighting a battle of really critical importance," explains Marc Abraham, director of "Flash of Genius." "You're saving a town from perishing because the water has been filtrated with too much Mercury or Plutonium. That has its own weight.

October 3, 2008

MOVIES: Ridiculous religion

"Religulous," the new anti-religion documentary from Bill Maher and Larry Charles, is a deeply frustrating film.

October 3, 2008

MOVIES: ‘Nick and Norah’s‘ mixtape love

"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" follows a group of New York City teenagers over the course of a night as they traverse their city trying to track down a performance by Where's Fluffy? a mysterious hipster band.

October 3, 2008

MOVIES: Bird’s-eye view

"Eagle Eye" is a totally derivative, unoriginal techno-thriller. But it's also thoroughly entertaining, with a fun cast and a plot that moves quickly from crisis to crisis, action scene to action scene.

September 26, 2008

Davi’s known, but name isn’t

Robert Davi is undoubtedly the biggest actor to show up at the American Film Renaissance Institute's festival this year. If you don't recognize his name, don't worry, you're not alone.

September 26, 2008

MOVIES: Ghosts are back, for laughs

"Ghost Town" is a perfectly acceptable, entirely generic romantic comedy; there are enough laughs to keep the audience entertained and nothing terribly heavy to weigh down the rest of the evening.

September 19, 2008

BEYOND: ‘Towelhead’ dives into difficult territory

"Towelhead," adapted from Alicia Erian's novel of the same name by Alan Ball, is not a light late-summer, early-fall feature. "This story has real hot-button emotional issues, and there will be people who will not be able to see beyond that," Mr. Ball says.

September 19, 2008

MOVIES: A WTO protest for its own sake

Just in case you're too dense to understand "Battle in Seattle," director-writer Stuart Townsend bookends his film with two lectures about the evils of the World Trade Organization and globalization.

September 19, 2008

Spy Museum: Learn to duck terrorists

As part of the International Spy Museum's ongoing effort to offer the public a glimpse into the lives of the intelligence community, the museum designed a special anti-terrorist driving course.

September 17, 2008

BEYOND: DC Shorts film fest at milestone

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the DC Shorts Film Festival, an important milestone. Why? Because upon completion of this fifth year, the festival is eligible for accreditation by the Academy Awards.

September 12, 2008

Digital Copy

Some people want to watch their movies on the go [-] on their laptops, their iPods and their iPhones [-] without hauling around boxes of DVDs. Studios have just the solution for this slice of consumers

September 5, 2008

EDGE: Hollywood’s terror avoidance

Jeffrey Nachmanoff, the writer-director of "Traitor" is tired of Hollywood's evasiveness when it comes to international terrorism. "If you're trying to make an ambitious movie that's for adults to talk about and start a discussion, [and] no one gets upset about it, then you haven't really dealt with the subject at all," he says.

August 29, 2008

MOVIES: ‘What We Do’ is pointless

Distilled to its purest essence, "What We Do Is Secret" is a docudrama with the production qualities of a made-for-MTV movie about a band that recorded one album and never managed to finish a gig and whose lead singer was a fascist poseur.

August 29, 2008

Cheadle’s ‘Traitor’ is complex

It was a little surprising to see the latest round of ads hyping "Traitor" as a "Bourne Identity"-style action thriller. True, the story does have action elements — it's a globe-hopping tale of a military man's infiltration of a terrorist cell, after all.

August 27, 2008