![Drew Turney [Freelance Journalist]](http://www.drewturney.com/wp-content/themes/drew/images/nav/headline.gif)
September 01st, 2008
Empire
http://www.empireonline.com.au
Criminal Heroes
May 17th, 2008
May 17th, 2008
What else but the movies could make the bad guys the heroes? They're mostly at home in comedies or films with comic elements, because while we know there are guys out there who can crack safes, launch computer viruses or deal drugs, they'd never act against the innocent …would they?
The Strangers
September 01st, 2008
September 01st, 2008
First time writer/director Bryan Bertino goes for nerve sawing tension rather than gore, and thoroughly achieves it through inventive camera angles and an unsettling score and sound effects. Unfortunately logic, natural behaviour and consistency are all sacrificed on the altar to achieve such a living, breathing sense of dread, and
Crips and Bloods Made in America
August 01st, 2009
August 01st, 2009
Every city has a side it doesn’t show the world, and this riveting documentary explains why that of Los Angeles is more dangerous, explosive and racially charged than most.
Buddha's Lost Children
April 01st, 2008
April 01st, 2008
An ex boxer-turned Buddhist monk collects horses and orphaned, malnourished children in his far north Thailand monastery, wielding his own special kind of boisterous, unsentimental love to boys who've never known it.
Oblique September 11 references
April 30th, 2008
April 30th, 2008
It was inevitable Hollywood would deconstruct the actual events — as it finally did with United 93 and World Trade Center — but for the longest time it hardly dared breathe the phrase ‚'September 11, 2001', using the drama of everything from aliens to divorce as a stand-in.
Four Minutes
April 01st, 2008
April 01st, 2008
Will the teacher show the protégé the love she's never known? Will the student bring the damaged older soul back to life? Watch a million other movies from Dangerous Minds and Dead Poet's Society to Freedom Writers to find out.