Est. 1998
“You, madam, are addressing a man, who is in fact quiet… and yet, not quiet, if I may offer to you a riddle.” For those who thought we’d lost the Coen brothers to the mainstream with Intolerable Cruelty, fear not: their latest is as delightfully offbeat as anything they’ve ever done. Professor Goldthwait Higgenson Dorr (a Colonel Sanders-looking Tom Hanks) is a brilliant criminal mind…
The original The Expendables was enjoyable enough, but… Well, it was a great idea – let’s put a bunch of old-school action stars together and let them go to town – but the execution was flawed at best. As I wrote at the time, “If it had come out in the 1980s, during the golden age of the genre, it wouldn’t be held up…
Movie Infos Title: Punch-Drunk Love Rating: Year: 2002 Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Writer: PT Anderson Starring: Adam Sandler Emily Watson … Genre: Quirky Romance Harmonium Cars Plungers Sisters Violence Tears Phone Pudding Blackmail LoveIt’s like Paul Thomas Anderson throws ten colored balls into the air… Watches them soar… Watches them fall back down in a frenzied mess… But he catches one, then another, and…
Harold and Kumar are sons of immigrants who taught them the importance of working hard, getting good grades and appreciating the opportunities offered by America, but what the two young men really want is to get high and get laid. And on the particular night the movie takes place, they also desperately crave White Castle burgers! The bulk of the flick has them driving, hang…
“Man, this was the biggest dichotomy I ever had on a job: it was the single most difficult job, yet the most fun I’ve ever had, ever. To get to have an M-16 in my hands every day for 5 months, running around in the jungle, jumping in the water, and then to be able to make jokes while you’re doing it… And then to…
I’m so happy I could cry. You all know there’s nothing quite as fun to me as ’80s Hollywood action flicks and, while I love The Matrix, I often wish the genre wouldn’t have seemingly gone all cyberpunk on us. There have been some sporadic attempts at bringing it back to the basics, while not stooping down to the cheap straight-to-video crap Seagal and Van…
Movie Infos Title: Gangs of New York Year: 2002 Director: Martin Scorsese It doesn’t take long before we feel that Martin Scorsese’s ambitious dream project about the early, brutal days of New York City has been compromised. I’m not the one to assess who’s to blame, maybe Scorsese himself messed up, but this is not the masterpiece this could have been. Irish immigrants led by…
Movie Infos Title: 25th Hour Rating: Year: 2002 Director: Spike Lee I consider Spike Lee to be one of the most vital American filmmakers. His other movies can be rough around the edges, sometimes barking really loud without being as incisive as they could be, but one thing they never do is leave you indifferent. This is particularly true of Lee’s latest joint, the first…
I love “Friends”, for the laughs and the friendship, yes, but it’s the love too! As often as I laugh watching the show, what keeps me watching is how darn touching it can get too! It’s like a weekly dose of premium romantic comedy! You’d think the six stars of the show would have made an easy break into big screen romantic comedies by now,…
Movie Infos Title: Beavis and Butthead Do America Year: 1996 Director: Mike Judge, Yvette Kaplan Huh huh… Heh heh heh… Beavis and Butthead make their big screen debut in this full-length adventure. After their TV is stolen, the moronic duo wanders the streets until they come across some tough guy (voiced by Bruce Willis) who wants to pay them to “do” his wife (Demi Moore)….