Est. 1998
Jean-François Tremblay : “Don’t let anything in… or out”, Larry Daley is ominously told as he begins his new job as the night watchman at the beginning of “Night at the Museum”. Played by Ben Stiller in a perfect match of performer and project, Larry’s a loosely defined dreamer (he had big plans for snapper lights, but clap-activated ones took away his thunder), a sort…
Movie Infos Title: The Godfather part II Year: 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Doing a sequel sure is a big gamble. Sure, you can say that if it worked once, it will again, but we all know that this is far from being true. More often than not, the original film remains the best. Still, some sequels achieve to be far from bad. My personal…
Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention, but up until recently, I hadn’t realized that Tim Burton‘s “Alice in Wonderland” isn’t actually an adaptation of Lewis Carroll‘s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Oh, it was inspired by that book (and its sequel, “Through the Looking-Glass”), using the same characters and many similar motifs, but like Spielberg’s “Hook” in relation with J.M. Barrie “Peter Pan”, “Alice in Wonderland”…
The long-lost Beach Boys album SMiLE, begun in the 1960s by Brian Wilson before his infamous nervous breakdown but only completed some 35 years later, is the LP I enjoyed the most in the last year. Furthermore, when Wilson’s SMiLE tour stops in Montreal next August, it’s bound to be one of the best shows I’ll ever see. I can’t wait, but at least for…
“I’m goint to climb over that anger wall of yours one of these days and it’s going to be glorious.” There has been quite a few humorous throwbacks to the 1980s/90s buddy cop genre lately, notably Edgar Wright’s “Hot Fuzz” and Kevin Smith’s “Cop Out”. So it’s kind of inevitable that this latest attempt to poke fun at this kind of movie by writer-director Adam…
Buddy cop comedies don’t get much respect, but I personally have much fondness for them. This, like my love of one-man-army action flicks, is obviously related to the fact that, as a child of the 1980s, I grew up watching them. Now, the godfather of this subgenre has got to be “48 Hours”, which was soon followed by “Beverly Hills Cop” (also starring Eddie Murphy)…
This nice little movie takes almost entirely place in the title music store, an independent which has been there since 1959. It’s run by Joe (Anthony LaPaglia), a thirysomething rocker who’s real cool to his young employees, he’s like their buddy. But business doesn’t give a rat’s ass about care, and the store’s owner is about to sell it to the gargantuesque Music Town chain….
If United 93 was the Delta Force of 9/11 movies, then I guess “World Trade Center” is the Die Hard. Like in the John McTiernan classic, you’ve got a New York cop who’s stuck in a building that’s been targeted by terrorists, and the only comfort he gets is from talking to another cop he can hear but not see and – nah, scratch that….
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Unlike seemingly every other movie critic, I’ve been having problems with late-period Clint Eastwood. I still greatly respect the man, both as one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time and as an undeniably talented filmmaker. “Unforgiven”,…
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)94 [ Watching this again, more than forty years after it exploded as the first modern Hollywood blockbuster, one can appreciate more than ever the way Spielberg keeps the shark unseen for most of the film and how much time and care he puts in developing Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw’s characters and the way they play off each other….