Est. 1998
It’s 10pm. Do you know where your half human, half devil kid is? Hellboy is sixty-something years old, but he looks half that age and he tends to act like a moody teenager. Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt) has been taking care of that big red ape since WWII, when he was working as paranormal advisor to President Roosevelt and helped Allied troops thwart the Nazis’…
Movie Infos Title: Cruising Bar Year: 1989 Director: Robert Ménard This film is one of the biggest moneymakers in the history of Quebec cinema. It’s a comedy that ain’t very sophisticated or anything, but I still think that it’s got something special. I think I found it more interesting as a depiction of what goes on in certain bars than I found it entertaining as…
Movie Infos Title: Five Easy Pieces Year: 1970 Director: Bob Rafelson Jack Nicholson is certainly one of the most gifted contemporary American actors, as he proved with such unforgettable movie performances as “Chinatown”, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, “The Shining”, but also “Five Easy Pieces”. That classic film features some of Nicholson’s signature tantrums, yet it’s a different Jack we watch in this film,…
You know what? I love Tom Cruise. Who cares about the couch-jumping, his supposedly being trapped in the closet and Scientology? What matters to me is that Tommy is a compelling presence on screen and, even more so, that he consistently associates with great filmmakers: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Woo, Steven…
207 minutes? That’s intimidating, but don’t let that stop you. Take out the opening titles and the five minute intermission and you’re down to the length of a “Lord of the Rings” film. Then you have to know that this is, simply put, one of the absolute masterpieces of world cinema. And we’re not just talking about the perfect visual compositions, amazing soundscapes and multi-layered…
Mallory: a teenage girl from a dysfunctional family. Her father’s a perverted and violent jerk (Rodney Dangerfield), and her mom doesn’t do anything to stop him. Life’s hell, until she meets Mickey, a delivery boy for a meat store who happens to find Mallory real cute. Together, they kill her parents and begin a journey through the US, across road 66. They get married and…
Jackie Chan’s a cool guy. In the 70s, he went from simple stuntman to the star of a huge load of cheap-o kung fu flicks à la “Fearless Hyena”. But it’s only in the early 80s that he really became a superstar in his native Asia, with his balance between all-out action and slapstick comedy. “Police Force” is part of that period. Chan’s flicks then…
Aww, come on! Just as it was becoming okay again to love Eddie Murphy, here he goes starring in a godawful comedy. Far from me to join the misguided bloggers who are trying to swiftboat the guy out of the Oscar he should get for his electrifying performance in Dreamgirls. But it is disheartening to see Murphy, instead of following that up by taking more…
Brüno: Put your shoulders back. This is a fashion show, not a slave auction. The camera bulbs flash and the incessant club beat bangs. This is excitement; this is glamour; this is “Brüno”, the new film from the creative team of star Sasha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, the people who brought you “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation…
Man, this movie is cool! People will tell you it’s an overblown T&A flick, a popcorn movie with way too much topping, trash basically. Well, of course it’s trash! This is “Charlie’s Angels”, not “Citizen Kane”! It’s just like last year’s “The Spy Who Shagged Me”, which also entertained millions with a derivative, over the top pop culture hybrid of comedy, action and sex, with…