New On DVD - Catch A Fire, The Motel, Lucky Louie, Lies & Alibis
CATCH A FIRE [PG-13]
It is difficult to view any politically charged film today — no matter where and when it takes place — without grafting a modern American political slant onto it, and The Quiet American director Philip Noyce’s latest is no exception. With its themes of intolerance, government-sanctioned fear mongering and terrorism, it is quite easy to look at America’s Iraqi quagmire and see the parallels that Noyce is trying to make to it. The mostly-true story starts in Apartheid-era South Africa, 1980, with family man Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) wrongfully pegged as a suspect in the bombing of a prominent local coal processing plant. When he is let go, his sense of justice leads him to unite with a group of freedom fighters set liberating the mostly-black South Africa from its out-of-touch white Dutch puppet masters. As auspicious as Luke’s debut in Denzel Washington’s Antwone Fisher may have […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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