Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: The Professional Year: 1994 Director: Luc Besson Writer: Luc Besson Starring: Jean Reno Natalie Portman Gary Oldman Danny Aiello Peter Appel … Léon (Jean Reno) ain’t a regular guy. He left France and settled down in New York to work… as a hitman. Well, it worked out fine for him. He’s really, really good at his job, and money piles up almost…
Movie Infos Title: Soldier Year: 1998 Director: Paul Anderson Writer: David Webb Peoples Starring: Kurt Russell Jason Scott Lee Connie Nielsen Sean Pertwee Michael Chiklis … I’ve had countless bad experiences with science-fiction. The worst was when I paid 5 bucks to see Mario Van Peebles in “Solo”, a crap film that sucked worse than anything had sucked before. After other mishaps like this, I…
Joe Cabot (the monumental Lawrence Tierney)’s an old timer who’s been into crime for a long time. He likes to do things his way. This time, he planned the perfect crime. He picks up 6 strangers. They don’t know anything about each other, not even their name. Cabot gives them everything they need to know to rob a jewelry store without any complication. But when…
“Parce que moi je rêve, moi je ne le suis pas.” Loosely translated, “since I dream, I am not that”. That saying has become some kind of mantra for young Léo Lozeau (Maxime Collin), who prefers fantasy to the harsh reality. He lives in the then-poor of Mile-End neighborhood with his family, a dysfunctional group of people close to insanity. His grandfather (Julien Guiomar) is…
I don’t understand the recent coronation of Bill Murray by film critics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Bill Murray isn’t great; I just don’t see what’s so special about his recent work. Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic and “Broken Flowers” all use Murray as the sad clown figure at the centre of a pseudo-hip existential dramedy, never getting more than a disaffected “Meh” from me. Ghostbusters, “Scrooged”, Groundhog…
“You’re only as healthy as you feel.” Travis Bickle’s not a happy man. He’s a Vietnam veteran who just got back in New York. He doesn’t really need money but he becomes a cab driver anyway because he can’t sleep at night. His mind is playing tricks on him, and he’s got some baaad ideas in his head. He hates the city, the filth, the…
That lousy piece of hooey is sappy, phony, dumb and unoriginal, but it somehow became a huge hit. What are people thinking? I gotta admit that it’s kinda enjoyable, in a sugarcoated l’il story for a rainy afternoon way, but still… What really sucks is how superficial and predictable it is, so you know exactly what’s gonna happen before the end of the opening credits….
In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, when Peter Parker administers a solid and spectacular ass-whupping to Flash, the musclebound pretty-boy who humiliates him daily, in view of Mary Jane, the viewer enjoys an incredible catharsis by seeing a fantastic event (a young man suddenly invested with super-powers) correcting a real injustice (geeks worldwide getting beat up day after day by cool guys). Sky High happily offers this same catharsis through…
When I received this DVD, my first reaction was: “They’re still around?” You see, I was once a fan of Iron Maiden… Ten years ago! And even then, hair metal bands were past their prime. Still, me and especially the Beavis & Butthead types I hung out with dug Maiden a lot. Since then I moved on to other kinds of music, listening to bands…
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001, Rob Cohen)73 [ review ] 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS (2003, John Singleton)52 [ review ] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (2006, Justin Lin)44 [ “The Fast and the Furious” was a starmaking vehicle (pun intended) for Vin Diesel… Then came “2 Fast 2 Furious”, sans Vin Diesel, but still with Paul Walker… And now in “Tokyo Drift”,…