Est. 1998
Much is currently being made of how “Nouvelle- France” is the costliest film ever produced in Quebec, but the $30M budget doesn’t seem that excessive if you consider that at that price, Hollywood can barely scrape together a little comedy like “Jersey Girl”. Here we get elaborate period recreation, cannonballs flying through Québec City, a huge international cast… I want to make it clear that…
Movie Infos Title: High Fidelity Year: 2000 Director: Stephen Frears In this day and age, there hardly seems to ever be any moment in our lives when music isn’t playing. You can always hear a song in the background whether you’re out in a bar, driving your car, in a store… We listen to music to cheer up, mellow down, party on, get off, set…
Is there a better time in life than summer when you’re a kid? School’s out and you’re too young to have to worry about working, so it’s like an endless season of leisure and pleasure ahead of you. You can wake up at noon, then maybe you go out for a walk, you hang out with your buddies, you enjoy the weather, you might go…
TOP 10 Eastern Promises: a great masterpiece. Evocative, ruthless, dark and mesmerizing, it all applies to this powerful movie, which lingers long after it ends. Viggo Mortensen gives a phenomenal performance while Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel and Naomi Watts also make very strong impressions. This is one of those films you find even better every time you replay key moments and bits of dialogue in…
Movie Infos Title: Chicago Year: 2002 Director: Rob Marshall In 1924 Chicago, Belva Gaertner, a cabaret singer, allegedly shot a man in her car. Less than a month later, Mrs. Beulah Annan killed a man who “tried to make love to her” then played a foxtrot record for two hours. Both were acquitted after trials which were covered extensively in the local press, notably by…
The absorbing tale of District attorney Jim Garrison, the man who tried to solve the JFK conspiracy. Relentless, he keeps on interviewing different people, trying to figure out what the hell happened exactly on that famous day. This movie is just great. The plot is always thickening and there are lots of unexpected twists. The screenplay is so damn well written. After seeing JFK, you…
Movie Infos Title: One Down, Two to Go Year: 1983 Director: Fred Williamson Starring: Jim Brown Fred Williamson Jim Kelly Richard Roundtree … Ah! Blaxploitation! Some badass mofos, cool clothes, funky music and white jerks getting beat up. In this film, there are four black cats. Chuck and Ralph are from a Californian martial arts school. They come to New York with their best student…
Movie Infos Title: North by Northwest Rating: Year: 1959 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Ernest Lehman Starring: Philip Ober Josephine Hutchinson Martin Landau Adam Williams Edward Platt … Hitchock is an odd case in cinema history. Despised for years by critics as nothing but a gimmicky director, he was recognized when European filmmakers like Truffaut expressed their admiration for his work, and now, decades after his…
Movie Infos Title: Signs Rating: Year: 2002 Director: M. Night Shyamalan Writer: M. Night Shyamalan Genre: Sci-fi thriller While calling him the new Hitchcock or the next Spielberg is premature, you have to admit that M. Night Shyamalan is not so quietly emerging as one of the most distinctive and resonant voices in popular moviemaking. The Sixth Sense, his first major feature (after the smaller,…
After the North American premiere presentation at Fantasia, director Lucky McKee recounted how they had announced they were making a movie called “The Woods” in 2003, then M. Night Shyamalan announced he was also making a film with that title, so they had to tell him he couldn’t do that and he had to change it to The Village. “And what a great movie that…