Est. 1998
As you might gather from the low star rating, I really hated this film. It made me angry, but not good-angry, like if it had made me think and question my reaction, but plain bad-angry at wasting 83 minutes of my life watching a lazy, misguided pseudo-art film. “À ma soeur” (or “Fat Girl”, as it’s insultingly titled in the US) is the latest from…
Movie Infos Title: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi Year: 1983 Director: Richard Marquand Writer: George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan The Empire is regaining its strength and even building a new and improved Death star. The evil Emperor and his number two man Darth Vader not only want to rule the galaxy, but also to turn Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, who now sports…
The story of the Boleyn sisters rivals Greek tragedies in relevance and grandiosity. Its outcome has indefinitely influenced modern civilization and its tragic drama has courted its way into our literature, cinema and television to this day; namely The Other Boleyn Girl. The story tackles such contemporary issues, complex emotions and riveting characters that you quickly become enthralled by it; however the movie…
Movies can be many things to many people. A movie can entertain you, make you think, move you, make you laugh, thrill you, heck, change your life. And then there’s movies like “Malcolm X”, “Schindler’s List” and a few others, movies that are essential, plain and simple. Spike Lee’s glorious biography of Malcolm Little is especially important since the controversial moral leader is being erased…
What the hell happened!?! How did a juvenile, disgusting comedy by the Wayans brothers, a satire of a satire at that, achieve to pull 42 millions in its opening week-end? When “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” did giant business last year, it was understandable: Mike Myers is a comic genius. But the Wayans? Aren’t they usually in TV shows that get canceled, second-rate…
Okay, it’s official, I hate Sofia Coppola. Well, ‘hate’ might be too strong a word. After all, the Coppola dauphine is too harmless and insignificant to inspire more than mild displeasure. You need to be offensively wrong-minded like a Larry Clark or a Catherine Breillat to warrant hatred. No, I don’t hate la Sofia. She’s just a well-intentioned young woman with a good visual sense…
2005 Saints-Martyrs-des-damnés57 [ You have to appreciate a film that can both quote Rimbaud (“Je me crois en enfer, donc j’y suis.”) and milk a three-breasted girl joke for all its worth. For his first feature, Robin Aubert set out to make a film that reflects how he sees himself, hard to connect with but open to it. The result is a film capable of…
Hyped beyond all measure during the Cannes Film Festival (where it was shown at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs), this first picture by Xavier Dolan, who wrote it when he was 17 and directed it when he was 19, using mostly his own money, is just that: a first film by a precocious teenager left to his own devices, for better or worse. Sure, it’s a…
After they discover a mysterious pyramid buried under the ice in Antarctica, Weyland Industries goons go around the world to recruit adventurers and experts, “Giant-Size X-Men #1”-style. Amongst the lot is Italian archeologist Sebastian de Rosa (Raoul Bova), Scottish scientist Graeme Miller (Ewen Bremner) and African-American environmentalist and ice-climber Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan). When they get to the South Pole, they realize that someone’s already…
Lila Lipscomb is a proud American. She might live in Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest towns in the United States, she might not have enough money to send her kids to college, but she still has her flag in front of the house. One thing she knows of to provide her family purpose and a future is the military. Here’s a way to get…