Date Archives 2010

THE CELL

Movie Infos Title: The Cell Year: 2000 Director: Tarsem Singh When I went into “The Cell”, I had just spent a week enthralled in the reading of Thomas Harris’ “Hannibal”, which outdoes the nightmarish visions…

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SOMEWHERE

If it feels like I’m writing the same review after every Sofia Coppola movie I see, maybe it’s because she keeps making the same one over and over. As such, it’s quite fitting that the first shot…

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Bombay Calling

We all love “Glengarry Glen Ross”, with its desperate salesmen being harangued by Alec Baldwin (” You can’t close the leads you’re given, you can’t close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and…

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Polytechnique

  First, a confession: I used to think that Denis Villeneuve embodied everything that was wrong about Quebec cinema in the 1990s: film school pretentiousness, masturbatory stylistic flourishes, pseudo-profound hogwash… Having talked to Villeneuve a…

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Sonny Chiba: Samurai

Following the release of Sonny Chiba: Street Fighter, the hacks at Vintage Home Entertainment offer us this new three-flicks-squeezed-unto-a-single-DVD. I don’t mind the cheap cover and utter absence of special features, and even the full…

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Many critics have already been praising David Fincher‘s “The Social Network”, but then again, when haven’t they praised one of his films? The deservedly semi-forgotten “Panic Room” notwithstanding, Fincher’s recent work has been grossly overrated in…

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BASEketball

I love to laugh. You’re gonna say, “Hey jackass, who doesn’t?”. Well, you should watch your manners, mister. And what I was trying to say was that to most critics, comedy ain’t as worthy as…

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