The Informers Movie Review
When it was announced that Bret Easton Ellis’s The Informers, a collection of interwoven short stories, would be made into a film, it was hard to know what to expect. The book is Ellis as we know him best: vapid, apathetic, sexually ambiguous, unabashedly adulterous with lots of sex and drugs and violence set in [...]
King Kong Movie Review
There aren’t many movies that make you laugh at a gorilla’s playful antics, root for him in a fight with dinosaurs, and weep after you fall in love with him at 3 hours, many people say it’s too long, but Kong moves along methodically, building a great emotional presence between the audience and the great [...]
Remembering The ‘It Just Doesn’t Matter’ Speech From Meatballs
When it’s all said and done, the ‘It Just Doesn’t Matter’ speech preformed by Bill Murray in the movie Meatballs will not be remembered as one of the greatest movie speeches of all times. I’ve scoured countless lists put together by bloggers and I’ve never seen the ‘It Just Doesn’t Matter’ speech from Meatballs crack [...]
The Matador Movie Review
The Matador is an off-beat dark comedy with a friendship complex. Brosnan’s performance as a once-smooth hitman who has lost his mojo is as funny and as fearlessly absurd as anything he’s ever done; You can’t help but love him. The Matador is a superbly cast hit man/buddy flick that has both brains and heart.
The Pink Panther Movie Review
The one interesting feature of this film is Clive Owen’s brief appearance as a Bondian superspy, a vignette that hints at what kind of movies we might instead be enjoying had anyone seen fit to hand that guy the one role he was born to play. To be honest, the rest of the movie is [...]
The Libertine Movie Review
The Libertine reads like a poem, clever witty dialogue, visually stylistic, and imaginative directing. Also like a poem, its confusing pieces don’t always go together, causing the audience to ask, what the hell is going on?
Another questioned I pondered was what the title had to do with the actual film. We all love Depp but [...]
V for Vendetta Movie Review
A visually sumptuous concoction that combines political allegory, bloody action, and a few stunning cinematic moments into a solid piece of entertainment. And let’s not forget how we still manage to adore Natalie Portman, even with a shaved head.
Inside Man Movie Review
Spike Lee’s latest joint is a workmanlike thriller that provides solid performances; a mixture of comedy, tension, and drama; and an engaging storyline. Lee has fun with his camera tricks, while tossing in a few side comments about New York’s racial makeup. The whole cast holds their own, but Clive takes the grand prize with [...]
Lucky Number Slevin Review
Lucky Number Slevin provides the kind of enjoyment you get from watching a skilled tap dancer ply his trade on a highly polished surface. Style trumps substance. If you’re missing Tarantino this year, then Slevin just might be your lucky number.
The Shape of Things Movie Review
It won’t be too far into The Shape of Things (starring Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz) before you might think to yourself: This would be better as a play. Well, that’s because it was.
Adapted for film and directed by playwright Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things has the wordy, stand-alone dialogue, overall barrenness, and high-concept, [...]
Thank You For Smoking Review
Warning: This film may cause you to laugh at things you feel you shouldn’t, but it’s not detrimental to your health in any way, shape, or form (honest). Enjoyable not only because it shows the duplicity of spinning but because it allows its characters to revel in the joy they experience as contemporary con artists.
Katie [...]
The Good Life Review
You know the way that you feel in January or February when the weather is kind of shitty and there are no holidays to look forward to anymore and everything just feels overcast? That’s what watching this movie feels like.
The second thing you should realize about The Good Life is everything on the movie cover [...]
Hard Candy Review
The film will get under your skin with an intensity on the verge of being plain evil. You might feel like squirming, but you will not want to look away. Hard Candy is an intense, well-acted film that deals with its alarming subject matter in an audacious way. There is nothing sugar-coated about this taut, [...]
The DaVinci Code Review
The movie works; it’s kind of like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, with less humor and action, but more fascinating ideas. To those who say the book is better, I couldn’t care less. I didn’t read the book, and probably never will. The film stands alone, and cinematically, it’s not half bad; considering the [...]
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