Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Honeymoon in Vegas Year: 1992 Director: Andrew Bergman Las Vegas at night. A plane flies over the city. Then drops a team of skydivers, all dressed as Elvis! Cool, right? Now, imagine a film in which that scene wouldn’t even seem weird! Nicolas Cage plays Jack Singer, a private dick who loves to gamble but is afraid to get married to his…
Here’s what I wrote after seeing “Pink Flamingos”, John Waters’ 1972 “classic”: How do you rate a movie that looks and sounds dirt-cheap, with the clumsiest direction and ghastliest acting? This barely qualifies as a movie at all, it’s pretty much just a bunch of grotesque characters with the foulest mouths who do a lot of disgusting and retarded shit in front of a camera,…
Movie Infos Title: Mystery Men Year: 1999 Director: Kinka Usher Writer: Neil Cuthbert, Bob Burden, Brent Forrester Starring: Ben Stiller Janeane Garofalo William H. Macy Hank Azaria Paul Reubens … Oh, this is such a disap- pointment. As hip as this dud thinks it is, it’s not fooling me. It’s supposed to be a spoof, but it ends up being just a big fat mainstream…
When I was going to film school, I sometimes found it hard to sit through some of the movies the teachers made us watch, especially when I felt that even them must find their own selections rather boring, but were too conformist to do otherwise. ‘A film is old, and everyone says it’s a classic? Well, it must be, let’s make the students watch it!’…
Movie Infos Title: The Ring Rating: Year: 2002 Director: Gore Verbinski Starring: Naomi Watts … Genre: Horror The opening is straight out of a teen horror movie à la Scream or Urban Legend. Two high school girls are alone in a big empty house, discussing this story they’ve heard about a videotape that’s “like somebody’s nightmare” (more accurately, like a bad student film ripping off…
1935. All over the Land of the Free, it’s the Great Depression. If you got a job, you better hold on to it. Even if it’s as a prison guard assigned to death row who has to not only witness but take part in horrible executions on a regular basis? That is only one of the moral dilemmas brought up by this powerful, beautifully crafted…
I love black films, old and modern. Blaxploitation kicks ass. Basically, it’s about a black motherfucker with cool clothes, a cool car, a badass attitude and cool music to walk on. Richard Roundtree expressed this genre perfectly as John Shaft. Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier and Ron O’ Neal were other superstars of this era. In the 90s, blacks are mostly portrayed as young…
“I was orphaned at an early age. I had no name, so people called me Nameless. Being a nobody I studied swordsmanship. After 10 years of practice I acquired a unique skill. The King of Qin has summoned me. My deeds have astonished the Kingdom…” Circa 220 B.C., before the reign of the first emperor, China is split between six kingdoms. Qin is spreading through…
This is one fantastic space opera from French filmmaker Luc Besson, who doesn’t have much to envy to George Lucas… besides the fact that the “Star Wars” creator thought of all this 20 years ago. That doesn’t mean that “The Fifth Element” isn’t an interesting film. It stars the charismatic and manly Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas, a former Space Marine or something who retired…
I just love gangster movies. For some reason, I’m fascinated with the lives of these guys on the wrong side. Some say that every gangster film is similar, but it’s far from being right. Like Roger Ebert often says, it’s not what it’s about that counts but how it’s about it. Hence, crime can be seen in very different lights, from the hard-boiled hipness of…