Est. 1998
This movie is really something else… Waitaminute, no it isn’t! It might have been if it had been released before 1994. i.e. before “Pulp Fiction”, one of the movies it shamelessly rips off (along with “Get Shorty”, “Trainspotting” and Guy Ritchie’s own “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”). Coming out today, after countless other movies trying to dance to Tarantino’s tune, “Snatch” holds little surprise….
Movie Infos Title: Batman & Robin Year: 1997 Director: Joel Schumacher Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger George Clooney Chris O’Donnell Uma Thurman Alicia Silverstone … Time: 125 min. Genre: Action / Crime / Adventure / Fantasy This third sequel to the 1989 smash hit is about Batman learning to trust his new partners, while fighting three new villains. The script is as…
Movie Infos Title: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Year: 2001 Director: John Madden Here’s a film with all the right ingredients which somehow manages to taste bland as a hell. I mean, it’s directed by John Madden , who previously did the wonderful “Shakespeare in Love”, it has a stellar cast led by Nicolas Cage, one of my very favorite actors, and it’s shot by John Toll,…
Recently, Jeffrey Wells wrote this interesting article about how “stars become stars because people enjoy the fact that they do the same thing and do it well, time and again” and how Owen Wilson is the perfect example of that. I myself kinda wish the Butterscotch Stallion would mix it up once in a while, even though I do love his perennial Texas surfer dude…
The American Pie flicks aren’t the classiest or smartest comedies there are but, once you get past all the gross-out humor and sex talk, what strikes you is how sweet they actually are. A boy and a girl singing some Marvin Gaye to each other, a pastryphile growing to care about a flute-toting band geek, guys who pick on each other but who do care…
It used to be that there seemed to be a curse about movies shot in Montreal. While some ended up being pretty good (“Snake Eyes”, “The Score”), most were bad (“The Bone Collector”, “Eye of the Beholder”) or worse (“Battlefield Earth”). Now comes “The Sum of All Fears”, which has Montreal standing for Russia, Washington and Vienna, and the Superbowl scene was not filmed in…
This coulda been a contender… Sadly, it’s not. I was talking to my friend Johnny Dee Master Magician after I saw the movie and when he asked me how it was, my short answer was “Ordinary”, to which he retorted “It looks ordinary.” And then it hit me. I was finally able to see past my shameless Vin Diesel fandom and realise that I shouldn’t…
Funnymen Mike Myers and Dana Carvey reprise their roles as goofy slackers Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, who’ve moved their public access TV show from the basement of Wayne’s basement to a loft in a warehouse, but who still deal in stupidity. But mostly, they still enjoy guiltless pleasures such as going to see Aerosmith in concert and goofing around in the GarthMobile. Wayne is…
Maybe I’m nuts, maybe I just needed something to occupy my mind during the most boring parts of the movie but, beyond the mediocrity on display, I started to see the seeds of what could have been a masterpiece with only a few minor tweaks. Well, you’d have to throw out everything but the basic outline of Steve Oedekerk‘s modern-day Noah story, and director Tom…
“This is the legend of the Ghost Rider…” From the first few lines of narration, it feels like this could be something special. I love that legend stuff, plus the establishing shots of the Texas setting which, even though it’s contemporary, still has that Western feel. Especially since the voice-over is by good old Sam Elliott, basically serving the same purpose here as he did…