Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Ghostbusters Year: 1984 Director: Ivan Reitman “Ghostbusters” is an extremely goofy idea. So you got these three scientist dudes, smartass Bill Murray, dork Dan Aykroyd and dead serious Harold Ramis. They study supernatural manifestations and parapsychology, that is until the university financing them throws them out of the campus. So they decide to start a business specializing in helping people faced with…
Movie Infos Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Year: 2001 Director: Peter Jackson Writer: Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh I haven’t read J.R.R. Tolkien‘s classic fantasy saga. I tried actually, but after ten pages of painstakingly detailed description of Hobbits doing Hobbit stuff, I just quit. Having now seen the first of three movies adapting “The Lord of the…
Oh man! I sure love those macho action films from the eighties! The master of this kind of film is of course Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of his best followers is Carl Weathers, the star of this film. In this kind of film, the plot ain’t important. Here, Jericho Jackson, sergeant for Detroit police, is after a rich auto executive. Of course, he has a sexy…
When it comes to the Arctic, no writer has depicted this slice of Canadiana better than Farley Mowat. It’s certainly no coincidence then that actor-turned-director Charles Martin Smith, who starred in the 1983 film adaptation of Mowat’s classic, Never Cry Wolf, would choose the celebrated author’s storytelling as a basis for his latest movie. Loyal to the short story Walk Well, My Brother, “The Snow…
Movie Infos Title: Elvis: His Best Friend Remembers Year: 2002 Director: 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…
Poor Chris Farley. As you probably know, he died of an overdose at the end of last year. Personally, that pissed me off more than the deaths of Robert Mitchum and James Stewart that same year, because anyway, they hadn’t worked in years. But Farley! He was one of the funniest guys in Hollywood, along with what I consider to be the coolest Saturday Night…
I’m reviewing this now, ten years after this classic film’s original release, because even though it’s been available in good video stores for years, I only got a chance to see it as it was intended tonight. Indeed, a new 35 mm print of “Once Upon a Time In China” was screened at Montreal’s Imperial theatre as part of this year’s FantAsia film festival. It’s…
“Along Came Polly” is a bit of a bumpy ride, but at the end of it you’re still able to say it was enjoyable. It maintains your interest despite some superfluous plot developments and cut-rate soul searching thanks to its genuinely likable characters. Semi-neurotic Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is a risk analyst at an insurance company in New York. He has his whole life planned…
Movie Infos Title: Scream 2 Year: 1997 Director: Wes Craven Writer: Kevin Williamson Starring: Neve Campbell David Arquette Courteney Cox Sarah Michelle Gellar Jamie Kennedy … I really enjoyed the first “Scream”. Thanks to sharp writing, effective direction and a cool cast, itwas one of the coolest horror flicks of the ’90s, both a critic favorite and a blockbuster. And of course, they made a…
Bay City, the Seventies. Ben Stiller is all-work-and -no-play cop David Starsky, dark curly hair, leather jacket, tight jeans, tighter attitude. Owen Wilson is cop-when -he-feels -like-it Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson, beach blonde, laidback clothes, even more laidback attitude. Everything separates these two, so naturally the police chief (Fred Williamson) makes them each other’s partner. Hilarity ensues… not. I like Stiller and Wilson, I really do….