Movie Infos Title: Honeymoon in Vegas Year: 1992 Director: Andrew Bergman Las Vegas at night. A plane flies over the city. Then drops a team of skydivers, all dressed as Elvis! Cool, right? Now, imagine…
Date Archives 2012
A Dirty Shame
Here’s what I wrote after seeing “Pink Flamingos”, John Waters’ 1972 “classic”: How do you rate a movie that looks and sounds dirt-cheap, with the clumsiest direction and ghastliest acting? This barely qualifies as a…
MYSTERY MEN
Movie Infos Title: Mystery Men Year: 1999 Director: Kinka Usher Writer: Neil Cuthbert, Bob Burden, Brent Forrester Starring: Ben Stiller Janeane Garofalo William H. Macy Hank Azaria Paul Reubens … Oh, this is such a…
Citizen Kane
When I was going to film school, I sometimes found it hard to sit through some of the movies the teachers made us watch, especially when I felt that even them must find their own…
The Green Mile
1935. All over the Land of the Free, it’s the Great Depression. If you got a job, you better hold on to it. Even if it’s as a prison guard assigned to death row who…
Original Gangstas
I love black films, old and modern. Blaxploitation kicks ass. Basically, it’s about a black motherfucker with cool clothes, a cool car, a badass attitude and cool music to walk on. Richard Roundtree expressed this…
2002 November-December
(2 Nov) Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1974, William Klein) [ review ] 70 (4 Nov) Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle) [ review ] 94 (7 Nov) The Real Eve (2002, Andrew Peddington) 60 [ Reviewed for the Apollo Movie…
The Fifth Element
This is one fantastic space opera from French filmmaker Luc Besson, who doesn’t have much to envy to George Lucas… besides the fact that the “Star Wars” creator thought of all this 20 years ago….