Est. 1998
In Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman’s character talks about this pilot she starred in, “Fox Force Five”, about a team of elite female spies, each with lethal special skills. Behind the scenes, Uma and director Quentin Tarantino came up with sort of a spin-off, the DiVAS, “Deadly Viper Assassination Squad”. Sort of an Angels team but sponsored by a down and dirty Charlie who’s called Bill,…
Too often, sequels are a disappointment, pointless endeavors beyond their ability to make a killing at the box-office. Commercially profitable or not, this kind of follow-ups offers diminishing returns to the audience and, in the worst cases, it can even turn us off to the material, making us forget why we liked it in the first place. Personally, this is what I felt had happened…
I haven’t seen his debut “The Poor and Hungry” and his upcoming “Black Snake Moan” (awesome title!) is only in pre-production, but based on “Hustle & Flow” alone, I get the feeling that Craig Brewer wants to be the next Jack Hill. There are many other filmmakers who got unto the Blaxploitation bandwagon in the 1970s, but Hill’s Coffy is one of the rare ones…
Jean Carlo Lavoie : If the function of movies is to stimulate the mind, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is a spectacular failure. Fortunately, it is not. It is the critic’s job to translate into language the efficiency of the aesthetic forms. This time, I bet they will not be doing it accurately, upon a movie as extreme and iconoclastic as Apocalypto. Maybe they will not understand…
Comedy might be the only critic-proof genre left. While you may argue about wit, good taste, execution and all sorts of other “objective” criteria, in the end it’s all about one thing: funny or not funny. And if there’s one thing that is subjective, it’s what one laughs at. The same joke can inspire anything from boredom to hysterical laughter, it’s all about the particular…
Movie Infos Title: Monsters, Inc Year: 2001 Director: Peter Docter Writer: Andrew Stanton, Daniel Gerson Starring: Billy Crystal John Goodman Mary Gibbs James Coburn Steve Buscemi … You know how, as a kid, you thought that monsters would come out from the closet at night? Well, you were right! Every day, at the Monsters, Inc. factory down in Monstropolis, monsters go through inter-dimensional portals which…
Movie Infos Title: Rush Hour Rating: Year: 1998 Director: Brett Ratner Writer: Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna Starring: Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Tom Wilkinson Chris Penn Elizabeth Pena … When Jackie Chan announced that he would take the leap from Hong Kong to Hollywood, purists got scared. And when they learned that he would star in a buddy cop action comedy, many wondered if he would…
Movie Infos Title: Leaving Las Vegas Year: 1995 Director: Mike Figgis Starring: Nicolas Cage Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands Richard Lewis David Brisbin … Imagine being constantly drunk. The only time when’re you’re not drinking, well, it’s when you’re sleeping. Ben Sanderson is up to that point. From the early morning to late at night, he’s boozing. That’s his life. But can a body hold up…
Many call this the best war film ever, and they’re not totally wrong. I personally prefer the more lyrical approach of “Apocalypse Now”, but I was still amazed by the gritty realism of Stanley Kubrick’s film. One thing that can be disorienting is how the film seems to be a series of short films put together. That kind of storytelling worked extremely well for “The…
The first minute of the movie has Jane Ryan rushing on stage to give an important speech, only to realize that she forgot to put on any clothes! Ho ho ho… That’s “New York Minute” right there, equal parts wackiness and titillation. In their first theatrical release since growing hair in funny places, the Olsen twins try to please both their fanbase of little girls…