Est. 1998
In Scott Frank’s surprisingly great “The Lookout”, we’re told at some point that accident victims who suffer frontal-lobe trauma sometimes lose their inhibitions. Far be it from me to suggest that Quentin Tarantino got clunked something fierce during the “Death Proof” shoot, but I’ve rarely seen a filmmaker, in current Hollywood at least, expose his sexual and sadistic kinks on screen with such shameless…
Some people can’t stand arrogant boldness and confidence. One of the best ways for a filmmaker to attract surefire criticism is to start blabbering about how great he is. How many can’t stand Quentin Tarantino or M. Night Shyamalan, not because of their movies but because of their loud-mouthed bravado? Personally, I have no problem with that, in part because to get your vision on…
There’s something about violence that I’ve always instinctively understood but that the world at large, evidently, fails to grasp: violence only leads to more violence. If you have a quarrel with somebody and you go kick his ass, chances are he’ll try to get back at you, then you’ll hit him again, and so on. It never stops. I guess the thinking is that if…
“Turn up the good, turn down the suck!” yells Dean (Paul Spence) early into this riotously fun movie, and writer-director Michael Dowse does just that from start to end. “FUBAR” (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) blends reality and fiction, taking off from the stand up comedy of Dave Lawrence (who also stars as Terry) and shooting it as a low budget documentary. Like “This is…
Movie Infos Title: Gone in 60 Seconds Year: 2000 Director: Dominic Sena Nicolas Cage has taken a lot of criticism from reviewers and fellow actors alike who resent his following his 1995 Oscar win (over Sean Penn, who happens to be one of his most vocal critics) with a string of big, loud action flicks. I personnally think that it was sound move, as it…
“The bitch is dead now.” Can you picture Pierce Brosnan uttering that line? Never mind, Daniel Craig is James Bond now and he ain’t afraid to talk tough, kick ass and get his hands dirty doing it. Right from the striking B&W prologue, which is more film noir than the type of over the top stunts that usually open these movies, you know this ain’t…
In maybe the most instantly gripping opening minute of any movie this year, the late Timothy Treadwell sets the whole thing up himself: “I’m out on the prime cut of the big green, behind me is Ed and Rowdy, members of an up and coming sub-adult gang. They’re challenging everything, including me – goes with the territory. If I show weakness, if I retreat, I may…
Movie Infos Title: The Cider House Rules Year: 1996 Director: Lasse Hallström “Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England”, softly utters Dr. Wilbur Larsh (Michael Caine) every evening before the children go to sleep, for he is the caretaker and father figure of an orphanage in the Maine countryside. Women experiencing unwanted pregnancies come to him for help, and so he…
Johnny Cash was the man, “steady like a train and sharp as a razor”, with his guitar he waved around like a rifle, his deep voice and that steel-eyed stare. He’s a country music legend and he acquired further cred in his later years as kind of a damned poet, singing of death and desolation with chilling conviction. What’s maybe not as well known is…
Shane Black is best known for writing Lethal Weapon and a few other pretty good action flicks (Last Action Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight), or maybe for playing the one curiously non-buffed commando in Predator – Joel Silver owed him a favour, apparently. He must still be grateful for all the cash the “Lethal Weapon” franchise raked in, because Silver has now produced Black’s directorial debut. “kiss kIss bAng…