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…
Date Archives 2006
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…
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…
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…
In the Line of Fire
It’s not easy to make a thriller work. The basics are always pretty much the same: chases, false alerts, confrontations, etc. But to make all that work, the audience has to care about the characters…
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…
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?…
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…
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…