Est. 1998
Often, it’s the most unlikely movies that leave the greatest effect on you. From start to end, I was dazzled by “West Side Story”, which blends somber social drama, flashy musical numbers and the most timeless of love stories, “Romeo & Juliet”. It’s constantly amazing watching how the film shifts from one mode to the other. One second you’re following the plot of the classic…
In this era of endless infotainment shows, internet buzz and trailers that give away every beat, it’s refreshing to have a guy like M. Night Shyamalan who manages to keep his work mysterious until you’re sitting in the theater watching it. The marketing for his films is simply brilliant, showing you just enough to get you intrigued, but not actually revealing anything. Before I saw…
Movie Infos Title: The Recruit Year: 2003 Director: Roger Donaldson If you’ve been to the movies at all in the past month, you’ve seen “The Recruit”. Its ubiquitous trailer, that is, but it strained so hard to spoil every twist that it’s as if you’d seen the whole film already. Even if you somehow avoided the previews, the red herrings are so obvious that you’d…
Dan Bigras is an interesting figure in the French Canadian showbiz universe. He’s the kind of guy who’s almost too intense, too sincere for his own good. Maybe that’s why, while he got a few of his records playing on the radio and his few videos played on Musique Plus, he never quite “made it”, meaning that, while he’s probably living reasonably well off his…
One of the most involving and visually stunning films I’ve ever seen. Two different and unrelated love stories cross over in a small Hong Kong fast food restaurant where two cops regularly go. The stories have thematic similarities, but the treatment is different. The first cop (Takeshi Kaneshiro, charming in an offbeat way) was left by his girlfriend. He changes his mind by jogging and…
Movie Infos Title: Sixteen Candles Rating: Year: 1984 Director: John Hughes Writer: John Hughes Genre: Comedy We follow a girl named Samantha on her 16th birthday as she fantasizes about some stud from school but seems to only attire geeks. Scenes are set at places like class, the school bus, a party… The plot is kinda corny, yet really enjoyable. The predictable happy end…
Eager to dive into Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Kill Bill, what he calls “30 years of grind-house movies squeezed into a duck press”? You can prepare yourself by watching the movies that influenced it: spaghetti westerns, Shaw brothers kung fu movies, blaxploitation flicks, various American B-movies from the ‘70s and last but not least, the films of “Kill Bill” castmate Sonny Chiba. Not to be confused…
Sweet Mother of God, this is one damn funny movie! Why? Well… I’ll try to give you an idea but as we all know, a joke is never funny when you have to explain it. Either you get why Borat is hilarious or you don’t. On the most superficial level, this is about one hell of a goofy bastard. Borat Sagdiyev is a reporter from…
There’s a throwaway bit late into Kevin Smith’s “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” in which a wigged out Will Ferrell barges in a taping of a kiddie TV show revolving around a dude in a bright coloured cow suit who does sing-alongs, and he accidentally shoots poor Mooby dead. That little Barney gag wasn’t particularly funny, but at least it was only 30 seconds…
Caroline Dhavernas might have been my first celebrity crush. You guys in the US just fell in love with her in 2004 during the short, spectacularly botched “Wonderfalls” run on Fox, but I’ve been pining for the gorgeous French Canadian actress since the early 1990s, when she starred in local teen soap “Zap”. I was excited to learn she would star in her own primetime…