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“There’s only one kind of blues… That consists between male and female.” So says bluesman Son House in the first of a series of B&W 1930s vintage clips that are sprinkled through the film. For you see, “Black Snake Moan” is all about the blues and by extension, that male and female thing… Be it rooted in love or deceiving, pain or pleasure. Nearly all…
Movie Infos Title: Gone with the Wind Year: 1939 Director: Victor Fleming Often, older movies are a bit naive and unthreatening, but this movie is surprisingly fierce and somber. At first sight, it’s a great historical drama, retelling the events surrounding the Civil War. But at its core, this is a film about a flawed but strong-willed young woman who’s not only caught in the…
Movie Infos Title: Scream 3 Year: 2000 Director: Wes Craven Writer: Ehren Kruger, Laeta Kalogridis Starring: Neve Campbell David Arquette Courteney Cox Patrick Dempsey Parker Posey … Remember Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)? That fragile little girlie whose mom got gruesomely murdered a few years back, and who had to face the killer in the Ghostface costume herself as he came back to go after her…
Movie Infos Title: Traffic Year: 2000 Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Stephen Gaghan Starring: Michael Douglas Don Cheadle Benicio Del Toro Dennis Quaid Catherine Zeta-Jones … Time: 147 min. Genre: Crime / Drama Through the 90s, Steven Soderbergh was one of the most interesting filmmakers to follow. In 1989, “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” (his debut) won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and went on to become…
When you get down to it, this film ain’t much more than a corny melodrama. Still, it’s a really involving, deeply sweet film that just makes you feel good. Is that really a wrong thing? We meet Tess Carlisle, a former First Lady who’s now living as a recluse. She has a whole team of Special Agents for her protection. One of them is Doug…
At times, we all get a bit of attention deficit disorder. Like you’re not always up to immerse yourself for an hour in a concept album and prefer to just mix a bunch of rockin’ tunes, sometimes you don’t feel like watching a whole movie, you just wanna get the highlights. You’ll have some friends over, and you’ll want to play D.J., but with movies!…
Movie Infos Title: The Scorpion King Rating: Year: 2002 Director: The summer movie season used to start on Memorial Day week-end but these past few years, it kicked in with the beginning of the month of May, notably with the huge openings of The Mummy in 1999 and its sequel last year. This year, it’s only April 19th and the first big budget extravaganza is…
Tom Ripley is the hero of a series of novels from famed author Patricia Highsmith, and this film is the second adaptation (after Rene Clement’s 1960 Purple Noon starring Alain Delon) of the first of them. You could say that this is Ripley’s origin story; like “The Matrix” was the story of how a lowlife hacker became the invincible Neo, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” is…
In Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman’s character talks about this pilot she starred in, “Fox Force Five”, about a team of elite female spies, each with lethal special skills. Behind the scenes, Uma and director Quentin Tarantino came up with sort of a spin-off, the DiVAS, “Deadly Viper Assassination Squad”. Sort of an Angels team but sponsored by a down and dirty Charlie who’s called Bill,…
Too often, sequels are a disappointment, pointless endeavors beyond their ability to make a killing at the box-office. Commercially profitable or not, this kind of follow-ups offers diminishing returns to the audience and, in the worst cases, it can even turn us off to the material, making us forget why we liked it in the first place. Personally, this is what I felt had happened…