Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: The Rock Rating: Year: 1996 Director: Michael Bay Writer: David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, Mark Rosner Starring: Nicolas Cage Sean Connery Ed Harris Michael Biehn William Forsythe … San Francisco, Alcatraz Island. A commando of rebellious US Marines has taken hostage 83 tourists and threatens to shoot a bunch of deadly chemical missiles at the Coast if their demands are not…
Like in last year’s “I Capture the Castle”, Romola Garai plays a “consciously naïve” girl, Katey Miller, a straight-As American student who comes to Cuba when her father takes an executive posting at Ford in Havana. She should fit nicely in the country club crowd to which her family belongs, but instead she finds herself attracted to hotel busboy Javier (Diego Luna) and to the…
I only saw “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” for the first time recently and, while I thought it was kooky good fun and Gene Wilder was awesome as always, I found it rather inconsequential. This new adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl book, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the infamous chocolatier, is pretty much the same deal, minus the benefit…
Russell Crowe stars as John Forbes Nash Jr., who we meet as he arrives to Princeton University in 1947, a poor young man whose remarkable skills in mathematics won him a scholarship. He doesn’t really fit in with the other students though, and he has no interest in actually going to classes. He just wants to find a truly original theory, to think of something…
Movie Infos Title: Minority Report Year: 2002 While Spielberg’s recent work hasn’t been worthless per se, all of his movies for nearly a decade have been uneven at best: his “Jurassic Park” movies were fun monster flicks but excised all the scientific research Michael Crichton put in the novels and, while well meaning, “Amistad”, “Saving Private Ryan” and last summer’s “A.I.” were painfully maudlin. With…
Johnny Depp stars as George Jung, the only child of a working class man (Ray Liotta) struggling to make ends meet and a selfish woman (Rachel Griffith) who resents him for their modest lifestyle. Jung figures he’ll have none of that, so he moves to sunny California, where he gets into beaches, hot girls… and pot. It’s the late Sixties, and everyone seems to be…
new denmark (Rafaël Ouellet)87 [ I’ve written before about my fascination for the new wave of Quebec filmmakers that includes the likes of Denis Côté, Yves Christian Fournier, Stéphane Lafleur, Maxime Giroux and yes, Rafaël Ouellet. Now, Fournier made the biggest impact on me of them all with his brilliant “Tout est parfait”, but I also have a particular affection for Ouellet, who first came…
There was a boy… A boy from London who fell for a beautiful French girl. A boy who fancied himself a writer, a poet who went by the name of Christian (Ewan McGregor), who came to 1899 Paris to write about the things dearest to his heart: Freedom,Beauty, Truth and above all, Love. Yet he did not know true love then, that is until a…
The premise (and the tagline) of “The Family Man” is “What if?”, which is a throwback to quite a few other movies, like the little seen “Mr. Destiny” for instance, but in reverse. In that film, James Belushi played a middle class family man who gets a glimpse of what his life would have been like if he had become rich and successful. Here, Nicolas…
Robin Williams seems two have two acting gears: there’s the hilarious but hardly subtle clown we see in stupid comedies, but he can also be a wonderfully touching, intense and endearing lead actor, as his Oscar-winning turn in “Good Will Hunting” confirmed. In this new film, he’s just right. He makes you laugh, cry and… think ? Well, not really, but you can’t ask for…