Est. 1998
If United 93 was the Delta Force of 9/11 movies, then I guess “World Trade Center” is the Die Hard. Like in the John McTiernan classic, you’ve got a New York cop who’s stuck in a building that’s been targeted by terrorists, and the only comfort he gets is from talking to another cop he can hear but not see and – nah, scratch that….
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Unlike seemingly every other movie critic, I’ve been having problems with late-period Clint Eastwood. I still greatly respect the man, both as one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time and as an undeniably talented filmmaker. “Unforgiven”,…
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)94 [ Watching this again, more than forty years after it exploded as the first modern Hollywood blockbuster, one can appreciate more than ever the way Spielberg keeps the shark unseen for most of the film and how much time and care he puts in developing Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw’s characters and the way they play off each other….
Movie Infos Title: The Wild Bunch Year: 1969 Director: Sam Peckinpah Writer: Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green Starring: William Holden Ernest Borgnine Robert Ryan Edmond O’Brien Warren Oates … Time: 134 min. Genre: Action / Drama / Western They say that we should credit Sam Peckinpah for the way violence is portrayed in movies nowadays. Of course, that would be reducing his cinema to a pile…
Movie Infos Title: Con Air Rating: Year: 1997 Director: Simon West This action-packed movie is about Cameron Poe, a guy just paroled who gets on a plane filled with dangerous criminals. When they take over the control of the plane, he’s the only one who can stop them. The story is perfect for an action movie: it’s original enough, raw, inventive and it doesn’t take…
Hello sexy, doing good? No, I don’t reckon we’ve met before… You might know my name though, Kevin Conners. That’s right, from TV’s “Conners at the Movies”. I’m also chief film critic and Arts & Culture editor over at The Montreal Times and my reviews are syndicated in 150 newspapers across North America. All that’s keeping me pretty busy, but it’s to those long work…
“Even if they discovered the cure for infertility, doesn’t matter. Too late, world went to shit. You know what? It was too late before the infertility thing even happened, for fuck’s sake.” That’s basically all you need to know about the plot of “Children of Men”. It’s 2027, there hasn’t been a human birth in 18 years and, in the first moments of the film,…
Movie Infos Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Year: 2002 Director: Chris Columbus Genre: Fantasy Almost exactly one year after the release of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, which went on to become one of highest grossing films of all time, the little wizard is back at Hogwarts for one more year of wonder and danger. With bumbling Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint)…
I’ve long thought that Kevin Smith was one of the most promising working American filmmakers. He has occasional shortcomings as a director, but his screenwriting skills more than make up for it. He’s one of those all too rare guys who writes movies both intelligent and entertaining as hell, and with a consistent personal voice to boot. From the black & white indie hit “Clerks”…
(previously: There Will Be Blood) “This is the sad tale of the township of Dogville. Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains in the US of A, up here where the road came to its definitive end, near the entrance to the old abandoned silver mine…” I first saw “Dogville” in October 2003, when it had its Montreal premiere at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and it…