My oh my, but what mess has been made of THE BAD NEWS BEARS. Not that it was ever a classic, except in a minor sense for fans of Tatum O’Neal and Walter Matthau, but what Richard Linklater, a man capable of producing works of unorthodox beauty and beautiful complexity such as WAKING LIFE, has… Read More »
STEALTH
For a prime example of Hollywood’s dearth of imagination one need look no further than STEALTH, a derivative bit of drivel whose makers obviously thought firestorms and really fast planes are all it takes to make a film worth seeing. It steals in equal parts from Star Trek (TOS: THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER) and Knight Rider… Read More »
MUST LOVE DOGS
Click here to listen to Diane Lane’s interview forUNDER THE TUSCAN SUN. In MUST LOVE DOGS the outcome is never in question. We know that divocee Sarah (Diane Lane), though currently experiencing the doldrums that come with having been abandoned by her husband almost a year ago, will be paired off successfully and blissfully by… Read More »
RED EYE
Most horror films are dedicated to the proposition that females are prey and little else.
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
It’s not fair to say that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I haven’t seen every movie ever made. But it’s definitely a contender. Based on the television series of the same name, it’s a convoluted series of car chases, car crashes, and lingering shots of Jessica Simpson’s cleavage all… Read More »
SKELETON KEY
There is one perfect moment in SKELETON KEY, which is remarkable more for the fact that it’s the only good moment in the entire film than for its own innate effectiveness. In it, a character picks up a cigarette, lights it with the torpid evil inherent in supernatural films set in the swamps of Louisiana,… Read More »
11:14
A hit and run, a drop and run, and a severed penis are just part of a very bad night in the usually quiet little town of Middleton. It’s a place where the sidewalks roll up at 9pm, but tonight there’s plenty of mischief afoot, all of it converging, for better or worse, at the… Read More »
VALIANT
It is a fact that during World War II animals took part in the war effort and that some of them, just like their human counterparts, won medals for their deeds, dogs, one cat, and even pigeons were involved. Disney’s animated film, VALIANT, is not one of those stories. It’s also not a film that… Read More »
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE is overwhelmed with such an overweening sense of earnestness that one feels almost sinful for not being swept along with what its makers obviously consider a tale of great importance. The greater sin, though, is in taking a tale of exorcism, faith, and the law and not making it more… Read More »
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
JUST LIKE HEAVEN is an irresistible and unpretentious morsel of old-fashioned romance with a dash of weltschmerz and metaphysics tossed in for good measure. It’s not so much boy meets girl, as boy meets ghost, though they don’t let that stand in the way of falling in love in spite of themselves. He is David… Read More »
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