Est. 1998
This movie is the latest release from Adam Sandler’s production company, Happy Gilmore, which previously brought us “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” and “Little Nicky”. For some people, this will inspire nameless dread, but not to me. Au contraire, from the first time I saw images from “Joe Dirt”, I was grinning hard and looking forward to it. Sure, movies like this aren’t high art, not…
“NOS 20 MEILLEURS FILMS QUÉBÉCOIS?” On November 1st 2003, La Presse critics Marc-André Lussier and Luc Perreault published a list of what they consider the 20 best French Canadian fiction feature films. One might deplore the absence of genius iconoclast filmmaker Robert Morin and the inclusion of a few downright rotten ‘80s flicks, but otherwise this is a solid selection. 1963 À tout prendre (Claude…
DISASTER/MASTERPIECE: “Freddy Got Fingered” by Kevin Laforest 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…
A few hours before the premiere of Pineapple Express at the Festival du Film de Juste pour rire, I got to interview Danny McBride, who pretty much steals the movie as far as I’m concerned. I wanted to interview Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow as well, naturally, but was turned down (James Franco and David Gordon Green didn’t make the trip to Montreal). Still, I…
It’s quite something to have two of the best actors in the world as the leads of your movie and not have them share the screen for more than 10 minutes. Michael Mann pulled that trick with De Niro and Pacino in “Heat”, and now Ridley Scott does the same with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe here. Not that I’m complaining. Au contraire, I think…
When I went to see Magic Mike on opening night, in a theatre full of groups of giddy ladies with just a few gentlemen sprinkled throughout, I was probably not only the sole straight male spectator in there, but also most likely one of the only ones who was there not to see hot guys work it, but to see director Steven Soderbergh…
“No pain!” If you watch the film, you’re gonna hear that many, many times. But don’t believe it. There is pain in this third sequel to the Oscar-winning 1976 flick that launched Sylvester Stallone‘s career. It’s all about boxing, machismo and testosterone! Man, I wish the 1980s would never have ended. Reagan, Rocky, Rambo… The President had balls, and so did the action heroes! Movies…
Blake is an aspiring actor who just can’t get a break, even though he seems to have all talents. Beside acting, he dances, he sings, he plays piano… He’s still probably very well remunerated since he lives in one humongous multi-leveled apartment. Blake has a really special relation with his sick mother. Yeah… a great guy, ey? Well, his girlfriend Carla thinks so anyway. Oh,…
How do you review the most anticipated and hyped movie of all time? I think it’s essential to position yourself towards it. I, for one, am not a Star Wars fanatic. I think that George Lucas‘ series is well crafted and very entertaining (especially “the Empire Strikes Back”), but many movies left a much bigger impression on me. Hence, I wasn’t that excited about this…
Why am I just seeing this now? Why didn’t I go see it when it came out in theatres last year? I guess it’s only that there are so many movies which come out every year, heck, every week, that even a film critic can’t see it all. But it’s frustrating when I finally watch a movie on video six months down the road and…