Est. 1998
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, critics don’t seem to get comedy. Unless humor is sophisticated or serious, they despise comedies, deeming them juvenile or inconsequential. I for one adore comedies, especially all these Saturday Night Live-type ’90s movies. I just love Mike Myers, Norm McDonald, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and all these guys, and watching movies like “Wayne’s World”, “Tommy Boy”…
Movie Infos Title: Wild at Heart Year: 1990 Director: David Lynch Writer: David Lynch Starring: Nicolas Cage Laura Dern Willem Dafoe Crispin Glover Diane Ladd … Time: 124 min. Genre: Drama / Romance Oh man, that’s one goddamn weird film! Well, it’s from David Lynch, so I guess it ain’t all that surprising. Lynch is that deranged filmmaker behind “Eraserhead”, “Blue Velvet”, “Lost Highway” and…
My favorite film of 1997 was “Jackie Brown”, and watching this earlier Pam Grier vehicle makes me appreciate even more Quentin Tarantino’s picture. I love exploitation flicks, especially blaxploitation, but even I got to admit that these films are often cheap and inept. What they do have is a lot of attitude, ultraviolence, gratuitous sex scenes, terrific style and the best music you could dream…
Movie Infos Title: It could happen to you Year: 1994 Director: Andrew Bergman The world can really suck. Yet, there is still hope. That’s the message of this wonderful, wonderful movie. The two leads are two incredibly nice people, caught in the real world. If everyone was like Charlie and Yvonne, life would be a fairy tale. Unfortunately, they’re surrounded by people who don’t believe…
Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), he of the famed “Blue Steel” pose, has been the biggest thing in male modelling for the past few years, gracing magazine covers and billboards with his “really really really good looks”, walking down the runways around the world and attending the trendiest parties with the hippest celebrities. Yet now trouble is nigh, with not only the hot new kid on…
Movie Infos Title: Groundhog Day Rating: Year: 1993 Director: Harold Ramis Bill Murray stars as Phil, a cynical, obnoxious weatherman who hates his life in general and his job in particular. His latest assignment, reporting Groundhog Day from the small town of Punxsutawney, doesn’t really help. Everything goes wrong, and that day might be the worst of his life. But things are about to get…
The opening scene, which is straight out of the “Origin” miniseries, does a neat bit of sleight-of-hand and effectively depicts the traumatic childhood event which first triggered Wolverine’s mutant abilities. We then segue into an opening credits sequence which is almost as stunning as the one in “Watchmen”, showing how Wolverine (now played by the ever badass Hugh Jackman) and Sabretooth (Live Schreiber) fought in…
Movie Infos Title: Being John Malkovich Year: 1999 Director: Spike Jonze er … nah …Sorry about that. Here’s a movie that leaves me speechless. Totally astounded. I can hardly review it, as shaken as I am. I’ve seen tons of brilliant movies which affected me in plenty of different ways, but “Being John Malkovich” defies all expectations. It touches you in places you didn’t think…
Movie Infos Title: Chasing Amy Year: 1997 Director: Kevin Smith Ben Affleck plays a twentysomething comic book artist whose life is stalling. He’s having a blast, but he’s not quite satisfied with his relationships. You see, he’d like to find true love. And hey, he does! He meets the perfect girl: incredibly cute, really funny, just downright lovable. There’s just one tiny problem: the lady…
You may not know this about me but for a couple of years, I worked as a magician’s assistant, just as Alfred Borden AKA The Professor (Christan Bale) and Robert Angier AKA The Great Danton (Hugh Jackman) are to Ricky Jay at the beginning of the film. I never went out on my own as a performer and got into a rivalry with a…