Est. 1998
Imagine you’re on a date with a breathtakingly hot babe whom you can’t wait to get out of her clothes and have fun with… But first, you have to listen to her as she talks about really boring crap and makes a lot of lame jokes, as the girl is as dumb as she’s hot. Still, after a couple of hours of this, you do…
Back in the 1980s, John Hughes wrote and directed some of the best high school movies ever made. “The Breakfast Club” is probably his smartest, most achieved film. Hughes takes one person in each of the 5 most representative kinds of high school kids and sticks them together in a room for a whole day. They’ve all been sentenced to spend a Saturday in detention,…
1184. Christian armies have been in control of Jerusalem for 100 years, since seizing it from the Muslims. King Baldwin IV (an uncredited Edward Norton doing Brandoisms behind an iron mask) and his Arab opponent Saladin (Ghassan Massoud) are at peace, but it’s a fragile truce threatened by warmongering elements on both sides. Meanwhile, back in France, blacksmith Balian (Orlando Bloom – didn’t he also…
A little over 25 years has passed since First Blood, which was followed by Rambo: First Blood part II and Rambo III, and now we get, um, “Rambo” (I don’t get the way these titles add up either – what’s next, “Rambo II: First Blood part V?). Sylvester Stallone, who not only stars in but also co-wrote every film in the series, also handles the…
“Ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust.” Film after film, Danny Boyle defies easy pigeonholing. Even the initial salvo of his career, the so-called Bag of Money trilogy, isn’t that homogenous, and neither are his series of collaborations with Alex Garland, author of the novel on which The Beach is based and screenwriter of 28 Days Later and this here “Sunshine”. Some themes return and his…
Fletcher Reede calls himself a lawyer, but he’s mostly a liar. Why tell the truth when you can lie your way out of a messy situation? Reede is successful at his job, but his family life doesn’t look really good. His wife, Audrey, divorced from him, bored of listening to his lies, and she’s now seeing another man. The new couple is planning to get…
Movie Infos Title: Blade II Year: 2002 Director: Guillermo del Toro Writer: David S. Goyer Starring: Wesley Snipes Kris Kristofferson Ron Perlman Luke Goss Leonor Varela … Genre: Action / Thriller / Horror After seeing the first “Blade” movie, I called it the best comic book adaptation ever (since then, incidentally, Bryan Singer one-upped it with his “X-Men”). Of course, it’s ironic that the comic…
This new DVD release takes 3 episodes from the WB Kids cartoon series and edits them into a “feature-length adventure”. It’s beyond me why one would feel the need to make (or watch) an animated version of the Mummy movies, as if they weren’t cartoonish enough already! So the O’Connell family is digging up Egypt again, though they’re not quite the same as when we…
Movie Infos Title: Can’t Hardly Wait Year: 1998 Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan Finally, a real high school movie for the 90s. “American Graffiti” and “Grease” took a fun look at the 50s, as “Dazed and Confused” toward the 70s. In the 80s, we had John Hughes, who wrote and directed a bunch of unforgettable movies about teenagers, as well as Amy Heckerling, who gave…
Movie Infos Title: A Clockwork Orange Year: 1971 Director: Stanley Kubrick Writer: Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick Genre: Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi England, in the near future. Teenagers like Alex and his droogs are terrorizing the population with their acts of violence and mayhem. They beat up old people, attack and rape women in their own houses and war with opposing gangs. Alex’ wild ride…