Est. 1998
When I asked writer-director Burr Steers whether it would be accurate to describe his feature film debut as “a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”, he found it to be a stretch (while it got hearty laughs from cast members Kieran Culkin and Amanda Peet, who also took part in the press conference at the Festival des…
What the “Sex and the City” movie was for middle-aged fashionista cougars, this might be for the training bra set… But to be honest, this 28 year old dude was actually quite looking forward to this too, having loved the first film. Alas, this sequel holds very little of the charm and unexpected emotional heft of its predecessor, which mostly avoided the kind of empty…
As its title implies, Judd Apatow‘s third feature is all about comedians or, more precisely, about how the very people who make a living (or try to anyway) making people laugh are often miserable, pathetic human beings. It’s the old “sad clown” cliché, but maybe clichés become clichés because they’re true? I borrowed that last line from Paul Thomas Anderson, which allows me to segue…
When you see a movie for the first time, you’re discovering everything, and depending of various factors, you come out having enjoyed it or not. With time, you might come to watch the film again, and again, what with video, DVD, cable and so on, and one of two things can happen: either you’ll like it more with each viewing, discovering new subtleties, with familiarity…
What better way to kick off a movie year than with an idiotic comedy dumped into January by studio executives who know they have a dud in their hands? Who isn’t thrilled by the pairing of Jerry O’Connell as a dumb New York hairstylist and Anthony Anderson as a fat, Black and loud hustler? Not running to the theatre yet? How about Christopher Walken swallowing…
John Hancock: “Call me an asshole one more time.” It isn’t fair to write a film off in the first few minutes but you can sometimes get a pretty good sense as to what you’re in store for from the way the film introduces itself. The film opens on an L.A. freeway, where four punks are being chased in their van by countless police…
Movie Infos Title: Peggy Sue got married Year: 1986 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner Starring: Kathleen Turner Nicolas Cage Barry Miller Catherine Hicks Maureen McVerry … Kathleen Turner stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s romance fantasy as Peggy Sue, a woman in her early forties who just got divorced from her high school sweetheart, Charlie, a salesman who cheated on her with…
Even though I knew what magic Pixar was capable of, from “Toy Story” to “Ratatouille”… Even though I loved Andrew Stanton‘s previous movie, “Finding Nemo”, more than any other Pixar production until now… Even though everything I’d heard or seen about this new picture was promising… Man, did I not expect “WALL•E” to be this amazing! I’m almost tempted to use the m-word, but let’s hold…
The Western is a unique kind of film. I don’t think that any other genre follows such rules and patterns, except maybe film noir. I’m not that big a Western fan, but I’ve enjoyed some of them. My favorite is probably “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, an exhilarating buddy comedy/war epic/Western from Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood, our last great cowboy. Hence,…
Movie Infos Title: The Blair Witch Project Year: 1999 Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary… A year later, their footage was found. That’s it. That’s all you need to know. First of all, there isn’t much more of a plot anyway, and then it’s best to know the…