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MAGGIE CHEUNG has acted in 75 films, but she says she only likes 10 of them and is only proud of 3: “Comrades – Almost a Love Story”, “Clean” and “In the Mood for Love”. In the sorta-sequel to the latter, “2046”, which is opening in Montreal this Friday, she was supposed to play an important part but wound up only appearing on screen for…
Movie Infos Title: Heat Year: 1995 Director: Michael Mann Cops and thieves have been enemies for ages, in reality like in movies. But are they so different? This interesting film shows that in some ways, these two clans are closer than one would think. They play on the same grounds, and they need each other in a way. What use would be a cop if…
Movie Infos Title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Year: 1989 Director: Steven Spielberg “Indiana Jones” is one of the greatest franchises in Hollywood history. Doesn’t everyone love these action-packed, humorous and romantic adventures? Set in the mid to late 1930s, the series revolves around Doctor Henry “Indiana” Jones Junior, a famous archaeologist who spends more time going into death-defying adventures than doing research in…
This is a would-be excellent film with only one problem: the Coen didn’t direct it. Let me explain myself. Joel and Ethan Coen are some of the best American filmmakers of the last 15 years or so. Their films are extremely stylish, violent, weird and funny. They take a familiar plot and twist it into something real cool. John Dahl seems to wanna do the…
PREVIOUSLY: Season One, Two, Three 4.1 “Falling Into Place” (2004)76 [ Acid trips, elderly sex, a road trip to pick up a relative’s body… It tells you a lot about this show that these aren’t even particularly startling occurrences. There’s so much death and emotion, yet there’s also touches of humor. You gotta love Rainn Wilson, James Cromwell and Justin Theroux, and the main…
Movie Infos Title: EIGHT… LEGGED… FREAKS!!! Rating: Year: 2002 Director: Ellory Elkayem Writer: Ellory Elkayem, Jesse Alexander Time: 99 min. Genre: Giant Bugs Movie There’s this trend in Hollywood these days to revisit the realm of B-movies from days past, only with decent budgets and some more or less well known actors, so what would have been a schlocky late-nighter in the 50s is now…
Another porno biopic? Well, yeah, but “Porn Star” has two things which were missing in “Wadd”, “The Girl Next Door”, “Sex: The Annabel Chong Story” or “Bad Girl”, namely a lot of style and a wonderfully entertaining central subject. None of the sad sack whining of Chong or Stacy Valentine, none of the drugs & AIDS pathos of John Holmes’ life here. Ron “The Hedgehog”…
After all these recent 1970s movies, their retro appeal is growing thin. But hey, filmmakers can still tap into 1980s nostalgia! After all, that decade was way campier than any other era, as made evident by this new comedy, which has the good idea of taking place in 1985. What we get is an hilarious atmosphere, from the ridiculous clothes to the cheesy yet enjoyable…
I thought the original “Halloween” was overrated, the 2 or three cheapie sequels I’ve seen were even worse, and this new entry is still crap. If you compare the much publicized “H20” to, say, “Halloween 6”, you’ll see that the only differences between these two duds is that “H20” features well known actors. Basically, what makes this film almost impossible to watch is that it…
In case you will ever get trapped in a parking garage and are kidnapped by a psycho on Christmas Eve, don’t count on 911 because they will put you on hold for at least five minutes. This is just one of many absurdities I counted in “P2,” a dreadful horror thriller in which the plot is painfully monotonous, suspense is conspicuously absent, and the characters…