In one of the deleted scenes found on the “Pulp Fiction” DVD, Mia asks Vincent Vega a series of questions sorting out his “types”, pop culture-wise, like “If you were Archie, who would you fuck first, Betty or Veronica?” The big one, of course, is The Beatles or Elvis? “Now, Beatles people can like Elvis. And Elvis people can like The Beatles. But nobody…
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The best & worst movies of 2007, By Jean-François Tremblay
TOP 10 Eastern Promises: a great masterpiece. Evocative, ruthless, dark and mesmerizing, it all applies to this powerful movie, which lingers long after it ends. Viggo Mortensen gives a phenomenal performance while Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel and Naomi Watts also make very strong impressions. This is one of those films you find even better every time you replay key moments and bits of dialogue in…
Why Violence Must Be Used To Kill Bill
My name is Rob Carr. I attend a small college in Manchester, NH where I just completed my first course in the art of film. Attached below is my “thesis” for this class. To make a long story short, on the first day of class my professor used the word gratuitous and said an example of gratuitous violence would be Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”. I disagreed…
Disaster/Masterpiece: Freddy Got Fingered
It’s been advanced that insanity and genius are two sides of a same reality, two somehow intertwined extremes. Tom Green’s oeuvre is a good example of that. From his original Canadian show to its reinvented MTV version, Green made a name for himself by pulling the most demented stunts, be it humping a dead moose, putting a horse’s head in his parents’ bed à la…
Gilmore Girls Season One
1.1 – “Pilot” Rory: You’re happy. Lorelai: Yeah. Rory: Did you do something slutty? Lorelai: I’m not that happy. In this first episode, the supporting characters are a bit too broad, there’s some unnecessary sitcomish beats and the tone hasn’t been perfected yet, but Lauren Graham’s wisecracking MILF and Alexis Bledel’s witty teenager are instantly adorable and their hyper caffeinated banter is as hilarious as…
La saga ROCKY
Rocky (1976, John Avildsen) [ Les deux premiers actes de Rocky, c’est Paterson 40 ans avant l’heure. Sylvester Stallone est un poète. ] Rocky II (1979, Sylvester Stallone) [ Sylvester Stallone est toujours aussi charismatique en Rocky Balboa, mais la majorité du récit s’efforce à le transformer à nouveau en nobody qui a de la misère à gagner sa vie, ce qui est assez…
Jean-François Tremblay’s reviews
SUNSHINE CLEANING I have a low tolerance for a certain kind of film that specializes in quirkiness obviously, patently meant to get your sympathy. NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS This is an observant, heart-warming film. QUARANTINE For a decent portion of its running time, it is as nerve-wracking and pulse-pounding as they come. IRON MAN As superhero movies go, it ranks among the very best efforts…