Est. 1998
Are there still folks who feel that super-hero flicks form a minor genre, you know, for kids? If so, just as the works of Frank Miller and Alan Moore convinced a lot of people that comic books could be a legitimate art form, Christopher Nolan‘s sequel to his already excellent “Batman Begins” should convince them once and for all that you can make a smart,…
“Do you think that maybe one time you’d wanna, I dunno, just hang out and do something that doesn’t involve suicide, heroin or prostitutes?” “Where’s the fun in that?” “Expiration” is a surprisingly potent independent feature from local writer-director Gavin Heffernan. It’s intelligent without being pretentious, visually confident without showing off and hip without sweating it. Heffernan stars as Sam, a good-natured boy who’s sent…
Movie Infos Title: Fire Down Below Year: 1997 Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá A small-town, down in Kentucky. There used to be a big coal mine there that employed a lot of people, but now it’s closed. The people have less money, but they’re still fine. But beneath this land of beauty lays a secret that could kill millions. Jack Tyger’s the man who’ll try to…
This movie is about how adolescence and high school can be hell, but you’d better try and have the most fun you can while you’re stuck in it. There is no real plot; instead, we follow a bunch of different teenagers on May 28th 1976, the last day of school and the perfect night to party. There’s Randall “Pink” Floyd (Jason London), a football…
(2 Jun) Catch Me If You Can (2002, Steven Spielberg)[ review ]91 (4 Jun) Hostel: Part II (2007, Eli Roth)54 [ It starts like a crappy straight-to-video sequel, with badly incorporated flashbacks recapping the first movie and that most lame of horror movie tricks, the BOO!-no, wait, it-was-a-nightmare scare. Plus we’re still with the surviving jackass from the original played by Jay Hernandez but, thankfully,…
It’s the same old song: every time a Marvel film opens, the usual suspects raise their voices to complain about the overabundance of superhero movies, which are, according to those naysayers, interchangeable. Even though there generally isn’t more than 4 or 5 a year, i.e. much less than the number of horror flicks, biopics or romantic comedies, and despite the fact that, more and more,…
Until today, I’d been strongly averse of the work of producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich, who cooked up together some of the most shallow, overblown duds of the 90s. “Universal Soldier” was generic and forgettable, even for a Van Damme flick. “Stargate” had an intriguing premise but revealed to be mostly boring and confused. “ID4” has its moments, but it remains another silly,…
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Moments So Dear Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes How Do You Measure – Measure A Year? In Daylights – In Sunsets In Midnights – In Cups Of Coffee In Inches – In Miles In Laughter – In Strife How About Loooooooove? How About Loooooooove? How About Loooooooove? These are some of the…
Forgive me, Superman, for I have sinned. As a child, I was a true believer. I was in awe before the almighty Superman, flying across the skies in his iconic red and blue suit, powerful enough to overcome just about anything, not a puny mortal but a god, really. As portrayed by Christopher Reeve, the big-screen Superman is probably the first movie hero I ever worshipped…
(9 Aug) Strike! a.k.a. All I Wanna Do (1998, Sarah Kernochan) 70 [ Somehow I’d yet to see this rather provocative, witty and naughty high school movie about teen spirits raging playfully raging against the machine in a conformist prep school which, amazingly enough, predates the somewhat similarly themed and/or toned “Rushmore”, “Lost and Delirious” and “The Trotsky”, among others. If anything, it’s a must-see for…