Est. 1998
The year is 1965. A ātroubled girlā (Kara Hayward) and a nerdy orphan boy (Jared Gilman) run away together in the wilderness. Chasing them are the girlās parents (Bill Murray and FrancesMcDormand), the boyās Khaki Scout master (EdwardNorton), a local cop (Bruce Willis) and Social Services (TildaSwinton). Thatās about the gist of Wes Andersonās second collaboration with co-writer Roman Coppola (following the underrated…
Is there anything worse than a Martin Lawrence movie? I simply canāt stand the dumb, rude, loud Black moron always accusing everyone of racism for no reason Lawrence plays in every movie. His character gets mad in the film when a stock villain calls him a monkey, but damn, Martin! Stop monkeying around and maybe people will respect you! Every single moment of āNational Securityā…
Movie Infos Title: Goldfinger Year: 1964 Director: Guy Hamilton There’s no doubt that James Bond is a cool character, yet his movies rarely match his appeal. Having pretty much seen the whole series, I have some pleasant memories, but they’re mostly scattered through uneven installments. The early films starring Sean Connery are the most classy and stylish, the ones made in the 80s with Roger…
Remember when it was seen as novelty to have brothers make movies together, back when the Joel & Ethan Coen made “Blood Simple”? Now, with Andy & Larry Wachowski, Peter & Bobby Farrelly and now Paul & Chris Weitz, it’s like been there, done that. The Weitz’s directorial debut leaves the same impression. It’s as entertaining as most of the summer’s other big movies, and…
Itās not easy to make a thriller work. The basics are always pretty much the same: chases, false alerts, confrontations, etc. But to make all that work, the audience has to care about the characters and be totally absorbed by the story. By that definition, āIn The Line Of Fireā might be the perfect thriller. First, the story is very good. Itās about the confrontation…
BABELĀ This is the latest of IƱƔrritu’s series of films in which unrelated characters are linked by a road accident, here involving a tourist bus in the Moroccan desert and a stray bullet. I’m starting to feel that the multithread, jangled-chronology thing has not only lost its originality and surprise value, it kind of undermines the potency of each individual story. Still, out of the…
Okay, that’s it: I’m calling a moratorium right here, right now on people sayingĀ Kate WinsletĀ is anything but damn hot. That, and just about the best actress in film today, but you already knew that, right? What you may not acknowledge if you’ve been brainwashed by fashion magazines and/or you’re an idiot is what a total sex bomb she is. She’s not fat or plump or…
1987 Bad Taste 51 [ Cheap-ass sci-fi comedy about “extra-terrestrial psychopaths” with a (bad) taste for human flesh fast-food who target a small New Zealand village for invasion. The acting is wretched and the production values are almost non-existent, but Jackson already displays intoxicating visual energy and the gore scenes are good for a few laughs. ] 1989 Meet the Feebles 23 [ Ever wonder…
Sam RaimiĀ is one of my favorite filmmakers, and if you ask me, “Darkman” is his masterpiece. It ain’t as funny and over the top as his “Evil Dead” trilogy, but it’s clever, intense and surprisingly affecting. It proves that Raimi is as good a director when it comes to psychological stuff that we know he is with action sequences. The film starsĀ Liam NeesonĀ as a scientist…
Retired and recently widowed, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) kills time by drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon on his porch, groaning and giving the neighbors mean looks. For you see, heās one of the only white guys left in the Detroit ghetto he calls home, which is now heavily populated by Hmong immigrants, whom the unashamedly bigoted old man doesnāt shy away from calling barbarians, chinks, zipperheads,…