Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Three Kings Year: 1999 Director: David O. Russell Writer: David O. Russell, John Ridley Starring: George Clooney Mark Wahlberg Ice Cube Spike Jonze Nora Dunn … This is one of these movies that quickly gather good buzz. I myself was fairly intrigued by this apparently impossible to describe Gulf War flick and figured it could either be a masterpiece or a mess,…
Disclaimer: I’m not familiar with Douglas Adams’ work. Never heard the original “Hitchiker’s Guide” radio show, never read any of the books, didn’t see the BBC miniseries, nothing. Hence, diehard Adams fans should not panic and take my review with some peanuts (you’re gonna need the salt). Arthur Dent (The Office’s Martin Freeman) is an ordinary English man who wakes up one morning feeling pretty wretched….
In the first Hellboy (and in Blade II before it), Guillermo del Toro, the visionary Mexican filmmaker behind such masterpieces as “The Devil’s Backbone” and Pan’s Labyrinth, took the backseat in the loud, fuel-burning Hummers that are big blockbuster action movies. While “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” is still full of the over the top noisy mayhem you expect from a big budget Hollywood flick,…
Poor Sean Penn. Between his appearances as an angry puppet in Team America and as an angry presenter at Chris Rock’s Oscar show, he’s squandered almost all the sympathy and admiration he’d earned from me and, I’m sure, many others. How do you go from Spicoli to such self-righteousness? Did he lose his sense of humor in Iraq or something? In any case, Penn’s grumpy and humourless performance is…
Is it better to start strong or to finish with a bang? Obviously, achieving both and never letting go in between is best, but it’s not that common for a movie to maintain greatness consistently from beginning to end. The reason why I’m asking myself that question is that often times, an amazing last act will make you forgive a limp opening and other flaws…
(1 Nov) Big Hero 6 (2014, Don Hall & Chris Williams) (2 Nov) Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) [ review ] 83 (4 Nov) Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) [ review ] 19 (6 Nov) Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan) [ review ] 92 (7 Nov) Under the Skin (2014, Jonathan Glazer)59 [ Visually dark. Narratively disorienting. Ominous score. Minimal dialogue. This is an art…
A life without love? That’s terrible! Love is like oxygen, love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us where we belong, All You Need Is Love! Poetry, music and art in general have celebrated Love for centuries and, for the past 107-odd years, so have the movies. One of the very first things to be immortalized on celluloid was a dude with a…
Who would have thought that a film about a TV scandal in the ’50s could be that fascinating? Well, that’s just what Robert Redford’s Oscar-nominated “Quiz Show” is. It’s a perfectly crafted feature which smartly tells the true story of an NBC game show, Twenty One, the fastest growing quiz sensation at the time. Two contestants are trapped in soundproof cells and they have to answer…
This is one of those instances when being a critic is difficult. Some movies you love, some movies you hate – that’s simple. But what happens when you’re smack in the middle? You can see a film is flawed, but you enjoy it anyway… sort of. This has actually happened to me often, to various degrees, with the Farrelly brothers. They’re not particularly good directors…
Man, I’m such a sucker sometimes! This film does everything it can to be despicable, but I still had a good time watching it! It’s almost the exact same farking movie than the first two, which were already rather mediocre. It’s a criminally commercial product from these Disney capitalists. Just think of it: the company buys a hockey team, and then they produce three movies…