Est. 1998
Jean Carlo Lavoie : It is not a surprise to learn that the Pan’s Labyrinth’s screenplay is an early draft of The Devil’s Backbone’s screenplay. Both have the same context (Spanish civil war) and the same aim: to depict fascism. Strangely, to that purpose Guillermo Del Toro will not use a dramatic construction. Instead, he will build an architecture of symbols through which the mise…
There’s a time for art, depth and resonance in the movies of the cinema. In the summer, though, one can develop a peculiar fondness for loud, messy, retarded popcorn movies. “Van Helsing” serves no purpose beside giving work to special effects technicians and entertaining undiscerning audiences, and it’s not even particularly good at that. Yet there’s something about seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being…
Fuck “The Lord Of The Rings”, this is how it’s done! Naw, I’m just fucking with you, this movie is a major piece of crap. It shamelessly steals from J.R.R. Tolkien/Peter Jackson, but with none of the intelligence, heart and artistry that make the LOTR trilogy such a milestone in the history of cinema. Obviously, a flick can be not as great as LOTR and…
Movie Infos Title: The Independent Year: 2000 Director: Stephen Kessler I saw “The Independent” at the Fantasia film fest, here in Montreal. It’s sort of an “Ed Wood” by the way of “This is Spinal Tap!”, and it’s a very clever, very funny comedy. It stars Jerry Stiller as Morty Fineman, director extraordinaire of 427 B-movies in the last 30 years! The film introduces us…
This Oscar-winning comedy could be described as an Italian Woody Allen film, only less neurotic and more warm-hearted. We meet an Italian-American family which all live in the big mansion of Cosmo Castorini, a surprisingly financially at ease plumber. He’s married to the bitter Rose, and they have a daughter, Loretta. She’s a widow in her late thirties who wants to settle down for good…
L. Derek Leonidoff stars as Ron Fervent, a wannabe novelist whose house gets stolen while he’s out of town. With the help of his tabloid writer buddy John (Terry Jernigan), Ron goes out on a quest to get his home back which will take them all the way to Atlantic City, New Jersey. That’s right, baby, it’s road movie time, and you know what that…
You know what? I’m not quite ready to jump on the Judd Apatow bandwagon after all. The two flicks he’s written and directed so far (The 40 Year Old Virgin was the first one) are pretty damn funny, but not as hilarious and inspired as Anchorman and Talladega Nights, which Apatow produced but which were written by star Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay. It’s…
With this fourth Die Hard coming out these days and new adventures of Rambo and Indiana Jones on their way as well, it’s almost as if the ten year old me was in charge of Hollywood! If it weren’t for Schwarzenegger being in office, all my childhood heroes would be back on the big screen. Unfortunately, in the present case at least, the results…
Movie Infos Title: The Godfather Year: 1972 Director: Francis Ford Coppola This is a film about a man and his destiny. A film about how your family can overwhelm you. A film about how business and personal life sometimes cross over. Oh, and it’s also about gangsters. In fact, it’s all that at the same time. We meet Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), one of…
Gord Brody (Tom Green) is a 28 year old slacker who finally leaves home to go to Hollywood and pursue is dream of working as a cartoon animator. Of course, making it as an artist is not that easy, and Gord finds himself rejected by a studio executive (Anthony Michael Hall) and stuck in a cheese sandwich factory, a dead-end job if there ever…