“No funny stuff! And by funny stuff I mean holding hands, googoo eyes, misdirected woo- which is pretty much any John Woo film.” Yeah, I know, I quoted that Homer Simpson quip already in my Windtalkers review,…
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THE LAST SAMURAI
Many of this film’s detractors, and even some of its fans, will take part in furious Cruise-bashing, making cracks about his perfect white teeth, his perfectly coifed hair, his limited acting abilities… This has happened…
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
But first, an irrelevant but amusing anecdote: I’m at the Paramount multiplex in downtown Montreal for the Friday, 1:55 show. I make a stop at the little boys’ wee-wee room and who do I see…
ELF-EPHANT
Some things you just can’t explain. You know something is wrong, it’s so big you can’t miss it, but you don’t do anything about it. You let this kid grow up, feeling more and more…
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
“The Matrix Revolutions” is not as involving and groundbreaking as the first Matrix (or as sexy and cool as their Bound), but it’s certainly more satisfying than last summer’s The Matrix Reloaded. Things look dire early on, with boring…
SCARY MOVIE 3
Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2 weren’t great films of the cinema, but who are we kidding? These are dumb, vulgar, lowbrow spoofs meant to entertain mass audiences for 90 minutes and that’s that. Chances are they won’t…
MATCHSTICK MEN
Roy (Nicolas Cage) is such a good con artist that he’s conned himself in thinking that he’s spectacularly obsessive-compulsive, freaking about outdoors and dirt, full of tics and odd habits, popping pills and chain-smoking… When…
BAD BOYS II
8 years after their first big screen romp, the boys are back for another explosive go through the streets of Miami. Martin Lawrence is still obnoxious but, again, he’s tolerable opposite the always charismatic Will Smith. I can’t…
SWIMMING POOL
Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) is an uptight, lonely British crime fiction writer, author of the best-selling Inspector Dorwell series. She’s getting tired of plotting tales of “blood, sex and money”, so her publisher offers her…