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…
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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…
TWELVE MONKEYS
Movie Infos Title: Twelve Monkeys Year: 1996 Director: Terry Gilliam Writer: David Peoples, Janet Peoples Starring: Bruce Willis Brad Pitt Madeleine Stowe Christopher Plummer … Time: 129 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi The…
LOST AND DELIRIOUS
Movie Infos Title: Lost and Delirious Year: 2001 Director: Léa Pool Writer: Judith Thompson Is this a Hollywood film, or is this a French Canadian film? Director Léa Pool is from Québec, as is one…
SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS
If IKEA made movies, they might look something like this: a big bunch of prefabricated parts that not so obviously fit together. Todd Phillips and his his co-writer Scott Armstrong (who also worked together on the hilarious Old School, the…