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...what’s the truth beneath these delicious falsehoods? Well, at a very basic level, Meloy is a bespectacled young thirtysomething from Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their...
Perhaps screenwriters Frank Cappello, Kevin Brodbin, and Mark Bomback inserted the line to smooth over some of the ugly stitches in this Frankenstein of a religious piece. But like paranormal John Constantine himself, audiences can’t help but see the ugly truth beneath the skin. Some plot points are never adequately explained: how did Constantine return from hell the first time? When and how did Satan have a son? Characters’ motivations are equally murky—Gabriel, for example, comes off as part saint, part sadist, and we’re left guessing whether the archangel...
...wife, for example, when she berates him not only for his original role in the making of Deep Throat, but also for his cooperation in the documentary, could not have been improved had they been scripted and rehearsed by professionals, and would have lacked the ring of truth...
These moments of truth nearly made me believe in an unbiased, detached documentary crew, but the comparatively paltry breadth and depth of the interviews of the “other side”—those upset by the alleged immorality and/or illegality of the film—made me think otherwise. The precious few minutes devoted to exploring Deep Throat’s proclaimed nemeses—the prosecutors who drove it to the Supreme Court and the Christian activists who saw in Deep Throat the decadence and desensitization of an increasingly secular society—are jammed...
According to an ancient proverb of Rotuma, the tiny Fijian island that provides the setting for the film, the land has teeth and knows the truth. Viki (Sapeta Taito), the young protagonist of The Land Has Eyes, discovers one of these truths: the land to which you were born does not determine who you will become...