Est. 1998
The following is a strange beast. It started as a regular review, written in the late ‘90s by my former teenage self. That review was preserved as is in the italics parts. You’ll notice that the film left me lukewarm back then, which doesn’t square with the 4 stars rating, right? Well, that grade reflects my current appreciation of “Singles”, having just watched it again…
One thing which I find odd on Adam Sandler’s otherwise neat homepage (www.adamsandler.com) is the absence of coverage for “Punch-Drunk Love”, the upcoming Sandler flick which earned filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson the Best Director prize at Cannes. I’ve unfortunately not seen it yet, but there’s no way it’s as trite, derivative and forgettable as this here “Mr. Deeds”, which has only the merit of playing…
I consider myself to be a bona fide Elvis person. I’m utterly fascinated by his persona and believe him to have been the greatest performer of the 20th century. If we’re referring to his live shows of the 50s and 60s, I’m sure many would be of the same opinion, but to some degree I’d also extend this to his film work. Granted, most…
Vincent Gallo achieved something with this film that few first time directors have ever done. In fact, the only other guy I can think of to write, produce, direct and star in a first film that’s any good is Orson Welles, with some obscure 1941 flick about a rich dead guy or something. Gallo’s a true artist who’s done everything from modeling for Calvin Klein…
Movie Infos Title: Muhammad Ali The Greatest Year: 1974 Director: William Klein Starring: Muhammad Ali … Genre: Documentary “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! Aaagh! Rumble, young man, rumble, aaagh!” We’ve seen, heard and read a lot about Muhammad Ali, truly one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. His story is legendary, a fascinating succession of great hardships and even…
Here’s a sincere but irreverent comedy/drama produced by Jodie Foster, who also co-stars as Sister Assumpta, well-meaning teacher and eternal tormentor of teenage Catholic school students Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsh) and Tim Sullivan (Kieran Culkin). These two might be altar boys to Father Casey (Vincent D’Onofrio), but they’re anything but nice and innocent. They are mostly preoccupied with skimming booze from their parents’ liquor cabinets,…
Some folks are automatically dismissive of romantic comedies. I’ll admit that a lot of them blow, and when you stumble upon a particularly rancid one like “because I said so”, it does make you want to track down the people responsible for it (that means you, director Michael Lehmann and screenwriters Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson!), gag and tie them up, fly to a…
Movie Infos Title: Ghostbusters Year: 1984 Director: Ivan Reitman “Ghostbusters” is an extremely goofy idea. So you got these three scientist dudes, smartass Bill Murray, dork Dan Aykroyd and dead serious Harold Ramis. They study supernatural manifestations and parapsychology, that is until the university financing them throws them out of the campus. So they decide to start a business specializing in helping people faced with…
Movie Infos Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Year: 2001 Director: Peter Jackson Writer: Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh I haven’t read J.R.R. Tolkien‘s classic fantasy saga. I tried actually, but after ten pages of painstakingly detailed description of Hobbits doing Hobbit stuff, I just quit. Having now seen the first of three movies adapting “The Lord of the…
LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINÉMA QUÉBÉCOIS February 17>27 in Montreal February 21>27 in Quebec city This annual festival presents the local films produced in the year that just ended, plus a few premieres. The full schedule will be online February 9th eventually. OPENING FILM Manners of Dying (Jeremy Peter Allen) 53 “Regulations”, “schedule”, “as outlined in the procedural checklist”… When death-row convicts come to Harry Parlington…