Est. 1998
“Some say that one never leaves Montreal, for that city is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.” Thus writes Leonard Cohen in “The Favourite Game”, certainly one of the most accurate depictions of Montreal as a place and a state of mind ever written. A thinly veiled autobiography, the novel tells of the search for some kind of purity through…
Whoa-hoa-hoa, yeah! Dude, you can’t like The D, you have to love The D, bow down at their feet and praise Satan for allowing them to rock so hard. In other words, you have to understand that this review is being written by a Tenacious D fan. If you are one too, run to the theater (and buy the soundtrack!), this is everything you’ve been…
Movie Infos Title: One-Eyed Jacks Year: 1961 Director: Marlon Brando Writer: Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham Starring: Marlon Brando Karl Malden Katy Jurado Ben Johnson Pina Pellicer … Marlon Brando directed this unusually dark Western in which he stars as Rio, a badass, disillusioned cowboy who robs banks in Mexico with his partner Dad (Karl Malden). That is until, after a big score, Dad betrays him…
If you ever wondered what would happen if the horny teenage geeks in “Superbad” dressed up as super-heroes and got into a bunch of bloody crazy mayhem, this is your answer. Adapted by Matthew Vaughn from the Mark Millar graphic novel, “Kick-Ass” is an irreverent send-up of comic book movies that’s as hilarious as it is badass. The endearing and amusing Aaron Johnson stars as…
What do you get when you cross True Lies (but with both spouses secretly working as spies) and that timeless classic “Assassins” (but with less sexual tension than there was between Stallone and Banderas)? Doug Liman’s latest exercise in cool, entitled “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” even though it has nothing to do with the 1941 Hitchcock film. John (Brad Pitt) and Jane (Angelina Jolie) Smith…
Doug Quaid is a happy man from a future Earth. He’s got a construction job that’s kinda hard, but the reward is good, and anyway, he’s no wimp, he’s one gigantic ball of muscles. He also has a hi-tech apartment and a wonderful wife (the delightful Sharon Stone)… Oh, Quaid’s a lucky bastard, only he doesn’t realise it. He keeps dreaming about the now colonised…
This is without any doubt one of the grossest movies I’ve ever seen. Yet, it’s extremely funny, and, surprise, even insightful and witty! To give you an idea, think of a John Waters movie with a taste of Saturday Night Live and a dash of romance. The movie was directed by the Farrelly brothers, who gave us the Jim Carrey vehicle “Dumb and Dumber” and…
(in a Frank Zappa-style sarcastic voice) Oh, the United States of America, the greatest country on earth! The Air Force of its army is so powerful that there has to be a competition among itself to find out who’s the best pilot in the world. So each year, the top 1% of all fighter pilots come to FighterTown, USA to get into intense dogfights against…
My Top 10 has been published on my French site, Extra Beurre. Enjoy!
Movie Infos Title: Jerry Maguire Rating: Year: 1996 Director: Cameron Crowe Jerry Maguire’s the typical Tom Cruise character: successful, talented, smooth-talking and charismatic, with a smile wide enough to lure the most skeptic observer. A bullshit artist, but with a good heart. Maguire works as a sports agent for a big firm, and he’s got tons of big contracts. He’s about to get married to…