Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Panic Room Year: 2002 Director: David Fincher Writer: David Koepp Starring: Jodie Foster Kristen Stewart Forest Whitaker Jared Leto Dwight Yoakam … Genre: Thriller Blah. It’s not that I expected David Fincher to top his “Se7en” or “Fight Club”. I didn’t expect his latest film to be anything else than what it aspires for, namely suspense. But Christ, who knew Fincher had…
I’m divided when it comes to big popcorn movies. In a way, I’m saddened by how Hollywood denaturalizes the art of cinema with shallow, predictable, undaring movies fueled by easy gags and special FX. That feeling is real strong when I come across lazy, audience-underestimating crap flicks like “ID4”, “Godzilla” or “Deep Impact”. But you gotta admit that some blockbusters are effective in what they…
My name is Rob Carr. I attend a small college in Manchester, NH where I just completed my first course in the art of film. Attached below is my “thesis” for this class. To make a long story short, on the first day of class my professor used the word gratuitous and said an example of gratuitous violence would be Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”. I disagreed…
It starts out decently enough, first with a nifty titles sequence led by James Newton Howard’s atmospheric score then with quick but effective introductions of the main characters: mind-reading shrink Henry (Thomas Jane), mind-reading teacher Jonesy (Damien Lewis), mind-reading car salesman Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and mind-reading wisecracking sidekick Beaver (Jason Lee, who else?). They’ve been best of friends since twenty years ago when, as kids…
On December 14, 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. founds the Motown record label in his hometown of Detroit at the encouragement of songwriter Smokey Robinson. Through much hustling, scheming and plain good businessmanship, he not only makes local stars of his African-American artists but also allows them to crossover into the national pop charts, entertaining audiences black and white alike. One of Motown’s signature acts is…
Jackie Chan’s American movies are nowhere near as exhilarating as his Hong Kong work, but the man possesses so much charm and physical prowess that he manages to breathe some life into the most tired action comedies (see: Rush Hour or to a lesser extent, Shanghai Noon). That is, until now: “The Tuxedo” is so stupendously inane that it manages to nullify Jackie’s natural charisma….
Movie Infos Title: Shrek Rating: Year: 2001 Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson Writer: Joe Stilman, Roger S.H. Schulman, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio Starring: Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz John Lithgow Vincent Cassel … Once upon a time in a land of wonders, a fair maiden named Fiona was cursed and confined in the tallest tower of a castle guarded by a fire-breathing red dragon,…
Mmm. I’m puzzled. That’s often what happens with unusual movies: since you haven’t seen anything quite like it, it’s hard to review it. I mean, I’ve seen tons of action movies, so when I see a new one, I can say OK, it’s better than that other one, but not as good as whatever. Yet a film like “Ringu” is in a class of its…
(1 Aug) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn)92 [ I first saw the year’s most popular movie at an early private screening and loved it then, but it was when I saw it again at the big Fantasia International Film Festival premiere in a packed house of enthusiastic geeks that I completely fell in love with it. This is close to being my favorite…
It’s been advanced that insanity and genius are two sides of a same reality, two somehow intertwined extremes. Tom Green’s oeuvre is a good example of that. From his original Canadian show to its reinvented MTV version, Green made a name for himself by pulling the most demented stunts, be it humping a dead moose, putting a horse’s head in his parents’ bed à la…