Est. 1998
A life without love? That’s terrible! Love is like oxygen, love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us where we belong, All You Need Is Love! Poetry, music and art in general have celebrated Love for centuries and, for the past 107-odd years, so have the movies. One of the very first things to be immortalized on celluloid was a dude with a…
Who would have thought that a film about a TV scandal in the ’50s could be that fascinating? Well, that’s just what Robert Redford’s Oscar-nominated “Quiz Show” is. It’s a perfectly crafted feature which smartly tells the true story of an NBC game show, Twenty One, the fastest growing quiz sensation at the time. Two contestants are trapped in soundproof cells and they have to answer…
This is one of those instances when being a critic is difficult. Some movies you love, some movies you hate – that’s simple. But what happens when you’re smack in the middle? You can see a film is flawed, but you enjoy it anyway… sort of. This has actually happened to me often, to various degrees, with the Farrelly brothers. They’re not particularly good directors…
Man, I’m such a sucker sometimes! This film does everything it can to be despicable, but I still had a good time watching it! It’s almost the exact same farking movie than the first two, which were already rather mediocre. It’s a criminally commercial product from these Disney capitalists. Just think of it: the company buys a hockey team, and then they produce three movies…
Movie Infos Title: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Year: 2002 Director: Steven Spielberg If we had to pick the filmmaker who had the biggest influence on world-wide audiences in the last 25 years, no doubt Steven Spielberg would be the one. Is there another director who made as much box-office smashes and critical successes, often both at the same time? “Jaws” (1975) might have been the first…
Henry Hill: “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Wiseguys are not called that for nothing. They’re taking chances, making lots of money and living the big life. People respect the Mob, that’s not new. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) doesn’t want to be a dumbass loser who works from 9 to 5. He’s gonna be one of the…
Movie Infos Title: Pleasantville Year: 1998 Director: Gary Ross Writer: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire Reese Witherspoon Jeff Daniels Joan Allen William H. Macy … What’s better? A so-so film with an original concept or a really fun movie with an unoriginal plot? “Pleasantville” starts with an interesting premise but unfortunately, Gary Ross directs his film into a marshmallow-coated, undemanding feature instead of really trying…
UPDATE! The festival ended yesterday as the awards were announced. AMERICAN SPLENDOR won the Comedia-Just for Laughs Audience Prize, with LA GRANDE SEDUCTION being named best French feature. 07/21/03 ********************** This will be the 7th year of the film portion of Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival. From July 10th to the 20th, Comedia will screen “wacky adventures, bittersweet romance, mobster capers, wisecracking buddy pictures, feverish…
Lester Burham (Kevin Spacey) hates his life. Where has the fun of his youth gone? Things used to be so easier, and now he’s trapped in a boring office job, which he leaves only to return to his alienating suburbia neighborhood to a wife (Annette Bening) who cares more about their furniture than him and a daughter (Thora Birch) who hates his guts. An insecure…
Rebecca: Wow, this is so bad, it’s almost good. Enid: This is so bad, it’s gone past good and back to bad again. (from “Ghost World”) This movie is beyond anything you could imagine. As such, it might grow into a cult classic… Or just be remembered as a spectacularly misguided venture, who knows? To give you an idea, it’s as if Troma produced…