Date Archives 2006

Moonrise Kingdom

    The year is 1965. A “troubled girl” (Kara Hayward) and a nerdy orphan boy (Jared Gilman) run away together in the wilderness. Chasing them are the girl’s parents (Bill Murray and FrancesMcDormand), the…

Read More

National Security

Is there anything worse than a Martin Lawrence movie? I simply can’t stand the dumb, rude, loud Black moron always accusing everyone of racism for no reason Lawrence plays in every movie. His character gets…

Read More

GOLDFINGER

Movie Infos Title: Goldfinger Year: 1964 Director: Guy Hamilton There’s no doubt that James Bond is a cool character, yet his movies rarely match his appeal. Having pretty much seen the whole series, I have…

Read More

AMERICAN PIE

Remember when it was seen as novelty to have brothers make movies together, back when the Joel & Ethan Coen made “Blood Simple”? Now, with Andy & Larry Wachowski, Peter & Bobby Farrelly and now…

Read More

LA BABEL BÊTE

BABEL  This is the latest of Iñárritu’s series of films in which unrelated characters are linked by a road accident, here involving a tourist bus in the Moroccan desert and a stray bullet. I’m starting…

Read More

LITTLE CHILDREN

Okay, that’s it: I’m calling a moratorium right here, right now on people saying Kate Winslet is anything but damn hot. That, and just about the best actress in film today, but you already knew that, right?…

Read More

THE DIRECTORS SERIES (7)

1987 Bad Taste 51 [ Cheap-ass sci-fi comedy about “extra-terrestrial psychopaths” with a (bad) taste for human flesh fast-food who target a small New Zealand village for invasion. The acting is wretched and the production…

Read More

DARKMAN

Sam Raimi is one of my favorite filmmakers, and if you ask me, “Darkman” is his masterpiece. It ain’t as funny and over the top as his “Evil Dead” trilogy, but it’s clever, intense and surprisingly…

Read More

Gran Torino

Retired and recently widowed, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) kills time by drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon on his porch, groaning and giving the neighbors mean looks. For you see, he’s one of the only white guys…

Read More