Est. 1998
You watch movies. A lot of movies. Some good, some not so good. Once in a while, you see one and you’re like, whoa, now this is something else. Something else good, something else bad, it doesn’t even matter, this ain’t the point. Some movies, whether they succeed at it or not, aim to be more, to be different, and you have to applaud that….
This is exactly the kind of film that I find myself arguing about over and over. I can already picture the endless debates I’ll have with friends who’ll insist that this is a masterpiece and won’t be happy with my feeling that it’s good but not great. That’s the silliest thing about it: it’s not even a true disagreement where one loves something and the…
I’ve long been intrigued by Bollywood films, but I had never actually sat down to watch one. Fellow movie critic Michael Dequina generously offered to get me started by sending me a 6-pack of Bollywood, accompanied by background on each title, reprinted below in italics, followed by my own impressions. This little homemade festival should warm up my winter, all right! 1) LAGAAN: ONCE…
Movie Infos Title: Contact Rating: Year: 1997 Director: Robert Zemeckis “Contact” is not a bad film, but I can’t say it’s all that good either. You’ve got some great moments and an intriguing, haunting last act, but most of the movie isn’t very exceptional. It’s well directed by Robert Zemeckis, though, and Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey are good enough. The actor that most impressed…
The year is 1965. A “troubled girl” (Kara Hayward) and a nerdy orphan boy (Jared Gilman) run away together in the wilderness. Chasing them are the girl’s parents (Bill Murray and FrancesMcDormand), the boy’s Khaki Scout master (EdwardNorton), a local cop (Bruce Willis) and Social Services (TildaSwinton). That’s about the gist of Wes Anderson’s second collaboration with co-writer Roman Coppola (following the underrated…
Is there anything worse than a Martin Lawrence movie? I simply can’t stand the dumb, rude, loud Black moron always accusing everyone of racism for no reason Lawrence plays in every movie. His character gets mad in the film when a stock villain calls him a monkey, but damn, Martin! Stop monkeying around and maybe people will respect you! Every single moment of “National Security”…
Movie Infos Title: Goldfinger Year: 1964 Director: Guy Hamilton There’s no doubt that James Bond is a cool character, yet his movies rarely match his appeal. Having pretty much seen the whole series, I have some pleasant memories, but they’re mostly scattered through uneven installments. The early films starring Sean Connery are the most classy and stylish, the ones made in the 80s with Roger…
Remember when it was seen as novelty to have brothers make movies together, back when the Joel & Ethan Coen made “Blood Simple”? Now, with Andy & Larry Wachowski, Peter & Bobby Farrelly and now Paul & Chris Weitz, it’s like been there, done that. The Weitz’s directorial debut leaves the same impression. It’s as entertaining as most of the summer’s other big movies, and…
It’s not easy to make a thriller work. The basics are always pretty much the same: chases, false alerts, confrontations, etc. But to make all that work, the audience has to care about the characters and be totally absorbed by the story. By that definition, “In The Line Of Fire” might be the perfect thriller. First, the story is very good. It’s about the confrontation…
BABEL This is the latest of Iñárritu’s series of films in which unrelated characters are linked by a road accident, here involving a tourist bus in the Moroccan desert and a stray bullet. I’m starting to feel that the multithread, jangled-chronology thing has not only lost its originality and surprise value, it kind of undermines the potency of each individual story. Still, out of the…