Est. 1998
You know what? I love Tom Cruise. Who cares about the couch-jumping, his supposedly being trapped in the closet and Scientology? What matters to me is that Tommy is a compelling presence on screen and, even more so, that he consistently associates with great filmmakers: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Woo, Steven…
207 minutes? That’s intimidating, but don’t let that stop you. Take out the opening titles and the five minute intermission and you’re down to the length of a “Lord of the Rings” film. Then you have to know that this is, simply put, one of the absolute masterpieces of world cinema. And we’re not just talking about the perfect visual compositions, amazing soundscapes and multi-layered…
Mallory: a teenage girl from a dysfunctional family. Her father’s a perverted and violent jerk (Rodney Dangerfield), and her mom doesn’t do anything to stop him. Life’s hell, until she meets Mickey, a delivery boy for a meat store who happens to find Mallory real cute. Together, they kill her parents and begin a journey through the US, across road 66. They get married and…
Jackie Chan’s a cool guy. In the 70s, he went from simple stuntman to the star of a huge load of cheap-o kung fu flicks à la “Fearless Hyena”. But it’s only in the early 80s that he really became a superstar in his native Asia, with his balance between all-out action and slapstick comedy. “Police Force” is part of that period. Chan’s flicks then…
Aww, come on! Just as it was becoming okay again to love Eddie Murphy, here he goes starring in a godawful comedy. Far from me to join the misguided bloggers who are trying to swiftboat the guy out of the Oscar he should get for his electrifying performance in Dreamgirls. But it is disheartening to see Murphy, instead of following that up by taking more…
Brüno: Put your shoulders back. This is a fashion show, not a slave auction. The camera bulbs flash and the incessant club beat bangs. This is excitement; this is glamour; this is “Brüno”, the new film from the creative team of star Sasha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, the people who brought you “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation…
Man, this movie is cool! People will tell you it’s an overblown T&A flick, a popcorn movie with way too much topping, trash basically. Well, of course it’s trash! This is “Charlie’s Angels”, not “Citizen Kane”! It’s just like last year’s “The Spy Who Shagged Me”, which also entertained millions with a derivative, over the top pop culture hybrid of comedy, action and sex, with…
FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) retired after nearly losing his life in the arrest of Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins), but he’s now back in the field to track down the Red Dragon, a serial killer who brutally murders a suburban family every full moon. Graham will have to face his deepest fears and seek Lecter’s help to find the Dragon… Let’s make one…
Maybe it’s too violent, too harsh, a bit rough around the edges. Maybe director Tony Kaye‘s methods aren’t always very subtle, maybe the film’s kind of preachy. Forget all that hooey for a second and answer me this: how many movies suck you in, smack you behind the head, kick you in the nuts and actually make you think? Cause that’s where it’s at: nowadays,…
Andrew Sterling has it all. He’s happily married, he’s well-endowed, he won the Pulitzer, and he even made the cover of Forbes! And now, he just bought a big nice house on a suburban island. His wife has to go visit her sister, so he arrives by himself. He takes it easy and tries to install his stereo. He shouldn’t have to bother about anything,…