There’s something about violence that I’ve always instinctively understood but that the world at large, evidently, fails to grasp: violence only leads to more violence. If you have a quarrel with somebody and you go…
Date Archives 2005
GONE IN 60 SECONDS
Movie Infos Title: Gone in 60 Seconds Year: 2000 Director: Dominic Sena Nicolas Cage has taken a lot of criticism from reviewers and fellow actors alike who resent his following his 1995 Oscar win (over…
Casino Royale
“The bitch is dead now.” Can you picture Pierce Brosnan uttering that line? Never mind, Daniel Craig is James Bond now and he ain’t afraid to talk tough, kick ass and get his hands dirty…
GRIZZLY MAN
In maybe the most instantly gripping opening minute of any movie this year, the late Timothy Treadwell sets the whole thing up himself: “I’m out on the prime cut of the big green, behind me is…
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
Movie Infos Title: The Cider House Rules Year: 1996 Director: Lasse Hallström “Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England”, softly utters Dr. Wilbur Larsh (Michael Caine) every evening before the children…
WALK THE LINE
Johnny Cash was the man, “steady like a train and sharp as a razor”, with his guitar he waved around like a rifle, his deep voice and that steel-eyed stare. He’s a country music legend…
KISS KISS BANG BANG
Shane Black is best known for writing Lethal Weapon and a few other pretty good action flicks (Last Action Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight), or maybe for playing the one curiously non-buffed commando in Predator – Joel Silver owed…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The End. Sooner or later we had to come to this. The final film, the final battle, the final goodbyes. It almost instantly became a year-end tradition: a week before Christmas, you got an early…