Funny People

As its title implies, Judd Apatow‘s third feature is all about comedians or, more precisely, about how the very people who make a living (or try to anyway) making people laugh are often miserable, pathetic human beings. It’s the old “sad clown” clichĂŠ, but maybe clichĂŠs become clichĂŠs because they’re true? I borrowed that last line from Paul Thomas Anderson, which allows me to segue…

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The Usual Suspects

When you see a movie for the first time, you’re discovering everything, and depending of various factors, you come out having enjoyed it or not. With time, you might come to watch the film again, and again, what with video, DVD, cable and so on, and one of two things can happen: either you’ll like it more with each viewing, discovering new subtleties, with familiarity…

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Kangaroo Jack

What better way to kick off a movie year than with an idiotic comedy dumped into January by studio executives who know they have a dud in their hands? Who isn’t thrilled by the pairing of Jerry O’Connell as a dumb New York hairstylist and Anthony Anderson as a fat, Black and loud hustler? Not running to the theatre yet? How about Christopher Walken swallowing…

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Hancock

John Hancock: “Call me an asshole one more time.”   It isn’t fair to write a film off in the first few minutes but you can sometimes get a pretty good sense as to what you’re in store for from the way the film introduces itself. The film opens on an L.A. freeway, where four punks are being chased in their van by countless police…

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PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED

Movie Infos Title: Peggy Sue got married Year: 1986 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner Starring: Kathleen Turner Nicolas Cage Barry Miller Catherine Hicks Maureen McVerry …  Kathleen Turner stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s romance fantasy as Peggy Sue, a woman in her early forties who just got divorced from her high school sweetheart, Charlie, a salesman who cheated on her with…

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WALL•E

Even though I knew what magic Pixar was capable of, from “Toy Story” to “Ratatouille”… Even though I loved Andrew Stanton‘s previous movie, “Finding Nemo”, more than any other Pixar production until now… Even though everything I’d heard or seen about this new picture was promising… Man, did I not expect “WALL•E” to be this amazing! I’m almost tempted to use the m-word, but let’s hold…

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Unforgiven

The Western is a unique kind of film. I don’t think that any other genre follows such rules and patterns, except maybe film noir. I’m not that big a Western fan, but I’ve enjoyed some of them. My favorite is probably “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, an exhilarating buddy comedy/war epic/Western from Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood, our last great cowboy. Hence,…

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THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Movie Infos Title: The Blair Witch Project Year: 1999 Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo SĂĄnchez  In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary… A year later, their footage was found. That’s it. That’s all you need to know. First of all, there isn’t much more of a plot anyway, and then it’s best to know the…

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THE HAPPENING

M. Night Shyamalan is probably the most hated brilliant filmmaker in Hollywood right now. I think this has to do not so much with his films, which are hardly dismissible even if they’re not one’s cup of tea, but with his perceived arrogance. I mean, I get it, it’s kind of obnoxious to hear a guy compare himself to all-time greats like Hitchcock, as Shyamalan did…

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BEST OF THE ’00s: MOULIN ROUGE!

1. Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001) What else? This film came along very early in the decade and right away, I fell head over heels in love with it, seeing it three times during its opening week – including once with Baz Luhrmann in attendance. You see, the filmmaker had promised to someone that he’d fly to whichever city in North America “Moulin Rouge” made…

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