Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Godzilla Year: 1998 Director: Roland Emmerich The old “Godzilla” flicks were campy, but they were fun. I enjoyed watching these guys in rubber suits pretending to be monsters and fighting each other around cardboard cities of Japan. So when they announced this remake, I was eager to see it. I should have known that Hollywood has a way of ruining good ideas,…
Finally, a real high school movie for the 90s. āAmerican Graffitiā and āGreaseā took a fun look at the 50s, as āDazed and Confusedā toward the 70s. In the 80s, we had John Hughes, who wrote and directed a bunch of unforgettable movies about teenagers, as well as Amy Heckerling, who gave us āFast Times at Ridgemont Highā. Amy did create an really good movie…
This might be my favorite kind of film, one where you meet people you grow to know and care about, not because of cheap tricks but because the director has the good sense of letting his characters live on screen. āMoonlight Mileā is the story of a young man who sticks around with his parents-in-law after his fiancĆ©e is murdered, but itās not a grim…
āSometimes thereās a manā¦ I wonāt say a hero, ācause, whatās a hero? Sometimes, thereās a man. And Iām talkinā about the Dude here ā the Dude from Los Angeles. Sometimes, thereās a man, well, heās the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And thatās the Dude. The Dude, from Los Angeles. And even if heās a lazy man ā…
Movie Infos Title: The Avengers Rating: Year: 1998 Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik Writer: Don MacPherson Starring: Ralph Fiennes Uma Thurman Sean Connery Jim Broadbent Eddie Izzard … Time: 89 min. Genre: Action / Adventure Ā Can you say that a film is an honorable failure ? This big-budget adaptation of the cult 60s British TV show barely makes sense, but you gotta praise the effort. First,…
Before seeing āThe Darjeeling Limitedā, you have advised audiences to watch āHotel Chevalierā, a short film which introduces the character Jason Schwartzman plays in āDarjeelingā. Was it planned all along to make a short first and then a feature? āNo, it wasnāt. The two sort of came about at the same time. I started writing the feature and then I wrote the short, and…
Itās ironic that someone who champions brevity as I often do would love Bollywood so much. I find that most stories can be told properly in 90 minutes, so why donāt I mind a 3h15 monster like this? Well, for one thing, a good deal of that gargantuan running time is devoted to the spectacular musical numbers. Take these out and youād effectively save…
You know what I hate with many independent films? Itās how the people who make them often lack ambition. Theyāre like, oh man, we donāt have much money, letās just do a piece where people talk around a table and forget about style whatsoever. Nonsense! Some of the most inventive films Iāve seen cost next to nothing; just think of āReservoir Dogsā, āShallow Graveā or…
1970 On est au coton 77 [ A prime example of cinema direct, this first feature documentary by Denys Arcand achieved mythical status because of how it was censored for more than 30 years by the National Film Board of Canada. Only recently has the full, uncut version been made available, and it reveals itself to be a bit ahead of its time, kinda like…
Movie Infos Title: The Cell Year: 2000 Director: Tarsem Singh When I went into “The Cell”, I had just spent a week enthralled in the reading of Thomas Harris’ “Hannibal”, which outdoes the nightmarish visions of “The Silence of the Lambs”, with such grotesque things as man-eating pigs to bowels dropping from bodies as they hang and a couple discussing with a lobotomized guest as…