Est. 1998
Dagmar: Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is and how to spell my name. Novice film director, Craig Gillespie, would like you to meet Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling). Lars lives in a small, northern American town where everyone knows each other. Lars works in a dreary office where the most excitement revolves around his cubicle-mateās missing action figures. He lives next…
Movie Infos Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Year: 1975 Director: Milos Forman Writer: Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben Starring: Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher William Redfield Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd … Ā Jack Nicholson stars as R.P. McMurphy, a thick-headed criminal who feigns insanity to avoid going to jail. He arrives at a mental institution and he soon bonds with the inmates. Some are chronics who…
If it feels like I’m writing the same review after everyĀ Sofia CoppolaĀ movie I see, maybe it’s because she keeps making the same one over and over. As such, it’s quite fitting that the first shot of “Somewhere” shows a car driving in circles… Now, part of the auteur theory is that all good directors keep revisiting the same themes and refining the same distinctive style….
We all love āGlengarry Glen Rossā, with its desperate salesmen being harangued by Alec Baldwin (ā You canāt close the leads youāre given, you canāt close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it ācause you are going out!ā), right? Or how about Boiler Room, where itās Affleck delivering the pep talk (āAnd there is no such thing as a no sale…
First, a confession: I used to think that Denis Villeneuve embodied everything that was wrong about Quebec cinema in the 1990s: film school pretentiousness, masturbatory stylistic flourishes, pseudo-profound hogwashā¦ Having talked to Villeneuve a couple of times these past few years, I learned that he agreed ā maybe not that his early films āUn 32 aoĆ»t sur terreā and āMaelstrƶmā sucked, but that he…
Following the release of Sonny Chiba: Street Fighter, the hacks at Vintage Home Entertainment offer us this new three-flicks-squeezed-unto-a-single-DVD. I donāt mind the cheap cover and utter absence of special features, and even the full screen format and bad dubbing are to be expected with old kung fu movies, I guess. But this is some real hackwork, obviously transferred from old VHS, with ensuing buzzing…
Many critics have already been praisingĀ David Fincher‘s “The Social Network”, but then again, when haven’t they praised one of his films? The deservedly semi-forgotten “Panic Room” notwithstanding, Fincher’s recent work has been grossly overrated in my opinion, the most befuddling example being “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. So I wasn’t sure if I should trust the advance buzz on his latest, but it turns…
Ah, anthologiesā¦ You gotta admit that they rarely work. On paper, gathering 3 or so hot directors to make short films around a theme aināt such a bad idea. The problem is that for some reason, many filmmakers fail miserably. Well, in this uneven anthology, we get an extremely good drama from Scorsese, a shitty kiddy flick from Coppola and an inferior Woody Allen comedy….
I love to laugh. Youāre gonna say, āHey jackass, who doesnāt?ā. Well, you should watch your manners, mister. And what I was trying to say was that to most critics, comedy aināt as worthy as drama. Nonsense, I say. Could Leonard Maltin make me laugh during 90 minutes? Anyway, āBASEketballā happens to be a hilarious movie which introduces to Hollywood one of the funniest duos…
Here is one of those peculiar occurrences that happen maybe once or twice a year for me, when I respond so strongly to a film that I feel the need to restrain myself. I mean, this is not Aināt It Cool News, I canāt just go, THIS MOVIE KICKS ASS!!!!! VIGGO IS TOTALLY BADASS!!!! CRONENBERG IS A GENIUS!!! I have to take a few steps…