Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Twelve Monkeys Year: 1996 Director: Terry Gilliam Writer: David Peoples, Janet Peoples Starring: Bruce Willis Brad Pitt Madeleine Stowe Christopher Plummer … Time: 129 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi The more I see this film, the more I’m impressed by it. I love movies that are rich and complex, filled with different layers of reading. At first, you could think…
Movie Infos Title: Lost and Delirious Year: 2001 Director: Léa Pool Writer: Judith Thompson Is this a Hollywood film, or is this a French Canadian film? Director Léa Pool is from Québec, as is one of the young starlets, Jessica Paré, and the film was shot in the Eastern Townships of la Belle Province. Yet it’s shot in English with some US money and the…
If IKEA made movies, they might look something like this: a big bunch of prefabricated parts that not so obviously fit together. Todd Phillips and his his co-writer Scott Armstrong (who also worked together on the hilarious Old School, the pretty fun “Road Trip” and the lame Starsky & Hutch) seem to have set out to do not so much a remake of the 1960 British comedy with which it shares…
In the opening scene, The Rock walks through a trendy nightclub, on his way to beating the shit out of the entire offensive line of a NFL team, when Arnold Schwarzenegger passes him by and says: “Have fun.” The implications of this cameo are obvious: the Austria Oak is not getting any younger and someone needs to take on putting foot to ass on the…
Movie Infos Title: What a Girl Wants Year: 2003 Director: Dennie Gordon Once in a while a film critic finds himself attracted to the unlikeliest movies. Tonight, I could have been watching some well-regarded foreign language release or maybe an innovative independent film or even something lowbrow like the latest John McTiernan or Chris Rock’s directorial debut. Anything but this sugary comedy targeted squarely at…
The Bret Easton Ellis novel that inspired it was already contro- versial, and this film adaptation is certainly one of the most talked about movies of the year. As a picture about a psychotic, confused murderer set in the greedy Wall Street world of the 80s, “American Psycho” could be seen as a cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of Vanities”….
Movie Infos Title: Spider-Man Rating: Year: 2002 Director: Sam Raimi The Hype (feel free to skip to my review) Screw the “Star Wars” prequels, this is the movie I’ve been waiting for nearly all my life! I actually remember the time some 7 or 8 years ago when, as a comic book reading and drawing geek, I read somewhere that James Cameron wanted to…
It’s ironic that someone who champions brevity as I often do would love Bollywood so much. I find that most stories can be told properly in 90 minutes, so why don’t I mind a 3h15 monster like this? Well, for one thing, a good deal of that gargantuan running time is devoted to the spectacular musical numbers. Take these out and you’d effectively save almost…
Wanna smile? A lot? Rent this movie. Watching this adventure flick, I was a kid again. I was grinning the whole time, getting all excited, sometimes needing to restrain myself from jumping up and prancing around. I just LOVED this movie! The uplifting score, the glorious Technicolor cinematography, the heroics of Errol Flynn… It all gels to perfection and makes the viewer regress to childhood….
With “Polytechnique”, Denis Villeneuve finally shook off all his film school tics and misguided attempts at profundity, instead making a brilliantly crafted picture that took a dark page from History and made it feel immediate and personal. It wasn’t a flawless film, but it stuck with you. “Incendies” goes even further, both in its filmmaking mastery and thematic depth. It’s still not a perfect film,…