As was the case with the 19th century Eastern European fantasy “Le Marais” and the absurd B-movie homage “Truffe”, Kim Nguyen‘s latest feature is visually remarkable, proving furthermore that he’s one of the most gifted directors…
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Night at the Museum
Jean-François Tremblay : “Don’t let anything in… or out”, Larry Daley is ominously told as he begins his new job as the night watchman at the beginning of “Night at the Museum”. Played by Ben…
THE GODFATHER PART II
Movie Infos Title: The Godfather part II Year: 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Doing a sequel sure is a big gamble. Sure, you can say that if it worked once, it will again, but we…
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
Movie Infos Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Year: 1964 Director: Stanley Kubrick Here’s the kind of movie you don’t see much, a movie that completely defies…
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention, but up until recently, I hadn’t realized that Tim Burton‘s “Alice in Wonderland” isn’t actually an adaptation of Lewis Carroll‘s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Oh, it was inspired by…
Brian Wilson presents SMiLE
The long-lost Beach Boys album SMiLE, begun in the 1960s by Brian Wilson before his infamous nervous breakdown but only completed some 35 years later, is the LP I enjoyed the most in the last…
The Other Guys
“I’m goint to climb over that anger wall of yours one of these days and it’s going to be glorious.” There has been quite a few humorous throwbacks to the 1980s/90s buddy cop genre lately,…
Empire Records
This nice little movie takes almost entirely place in the title music store, an independent which has been there since 1959. It’s run by Joe (Anthony LaPaglia), a thirysomething rocker who’s real cool to his…
World Trade Center
If United 93 was the Delta Force of 9/11 movies, then I guess “World Trade Center” is the Die Hard. Like in the John McTiernan classic, you’ve got a New York cop who’s stuck in…