Est. 1998
There’s a throwaway bit late into Kevin Smith’s “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” in which a wigged out Will Ferrell barges in a taping of a kiddie TV show revolving around a dude in a bright coloured cow suit who does sing-alongs, and he accidentally shoots poor Mooby dead. That little Barney gag wasn’t particularly funny, but at least it was only 30 seconds…
Caroline Dhavernas might have been my first celebrity crush. You guys in the US just fell in love with her in 2004 during the short, spectacularly botched “Wonderfalls” run on Fox, but I’ve been pining for the gorgeous French Canadian actress since the early 1990s, when she starred in local teen soap “Zap”. I was excited to learn she would star in her own primetime…
Melvin Udoll’s a mean man. A real mean and grumpy old prick, and an obsessive-compulsive one too. Every day’s a struggle for him. He has to go through the same patterns every day or he’ll flip out. Getting in his apartment or just taking a walk is a hard task for Melvin. His own annoying habits piss him off, but he can’t help it so…
Movie Infos Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Year: 2002 Director: Peter Jackson WHAT TWO TOWERS? Minas Morgul, the watchtower guarding the entrance to Mordor, home to the unspeakable evil of Sauron, and Orthanc, the citadel of devious wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) and his armies of Uruk-hai, which he’s about to unleash upon Rohan.ROHAN? A land north of Gondor also populated by…
Is it overlong, uneven, repetitive? Maybe. Is Gaspar Noé playing the provocateur card a bit too blatantly at times, revelling in his own excesses? Probably. Is his latest film filled with such sensory overload that even the most dedicated viewer will have trouble processing it all in one gulp? For sure. But at his best, Noé is so far ahead of everyone else that “Enter…
Movie Infos Title: A Streetcar Named Desire Year: 1951 Director: Elia Kazan Writer: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul As far as acting goes, it doesn’t get much better than this amazing adaptation of the classic, Pulitzer prize-winning Tennessee Williams play. This is a story as emotionally complex as it gets, revolving around a group of flawed, complicated, painfully human characters who are all played with rare…
CHAPTER ONE, in which the inevitable comparison is made While “Manderlay” is indeed the S to the U that was Dogville in Lars von Trier’s United States of America Trilogy and while it does share some of the same protagonists, themes and aesthetic devices as its predecessor, it is a different film. For starters, Grace is not played by the same actress, and her role…
“Coming to America” is one of the films I’ve watched and enjoyed the most as a kid. It’s as entertaining as it gets. It’s many things at once: a romantic comedy, an hilarious fish-out-of-water story, as well as an interesting take on the power of money. John Landis has had his load of real successful comedies, but that’s his masterpiece. Never has Eddie Murphy been…
It’s a pretty common story. Single parents meet and form a new family, which doesn’t always please their kids. This is what happens to Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), who each have a son living with them when they move in together, the particularity being that said sons are both 40! Worse, on top of refusing to leave home, Brennan (Will Ferrell) and…
Adam Sandler is back, and he’s more retarded than ever! Well, I’m saying this, but I’m a big fan, so what does that make me, ey? On TV in Saturday Night Live, on his comedy albums, and in a series of dumb and dumber movies, Sandler always makes me laugh hard. His work is not the smartest or the wittiest or anything, but there’s a…