With ironically titled SWEET SIXTEEN Ken Loach has finally taken his considerable filmmaking talents and used them to make a movie, not a broadsheet. Instead of a screed that thumps its audience over the head with a black-and-white world view of good and evil as in CARLA’S SONG, this is a working class tragedy of… Read More »
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
Click here for an interview with Chiwetel Ejiofor about KINKY BOOTS.(9:49).Stephen Frears’ work always has an element of savagery to it. No matter what the milieu, there is always the overwhelming sense of acute danger and violence permeating even the quietest of moments, making those moments not so much islands of peace as a jittery… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
THE HARD WORD
I no longer fear death for I have seen THE HARD WORD and no pain of giving up the ghost, no torment in damnation can compare to this excruciating mess that hits the silver screen with the sickening thud of ineptitude. Writer/ director Scott Roberts seems to have wanted to make a taut thriller that is also… Read More »
SEA, THE (HAVET)
The most interesting sight in Baltasar Kormakur THE SEA comes right at the beginning. That would be fire engines contending with reindeer blocking the road as they race to a factory fire. It confirms the setting, Iceland, as a country with its own particular set of quirks, including rams roaming free in retail establishments before… Read More »
TOGETHER (HAN NI ZAI YIKI)
What does music mean? Its an interesting question and one posed with grace and not a little irony by Chen Kaige in TOGETHER. Using the backdrop of the uneasy cultural shifts in contemporary China and the ever mysterious dynamics of the father-son relationship, he has brought forth film that is deeply affecting and rapturously beautiful.… Read More »
THE EYE (JIAN GUI)
THE EYE by Hong Kongs Pang Brothers is a tidy little ghost story with more plusses than minuses going for it. The plot is a retelling about the unexpected things that can happen when you recycle body parts from dead people. In this case, its the corneas and the happy recipient is Mun, blind since… Read More »
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
I love Cinderella stories and MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING qualifies for a couple of reasons. First of all, its the story of an ugly duckling, played by its writer Nia Vardalos, who morphs into the princess bride. Second, its a sweet little indie that beat the odds and an all-but non-existent advertising budget to… Read More »
MEN IN BLACK II
If you liked MEN IN BLACK, you will love MEN IN BLACK II because, and Im not exaggerating much here, it is EXACTLY THE SAME MOVIE. Its another tale of the super-secret agency whose agents, all male, even the dogs, wear sober black suits and keep the rest of us from finding out that not… Read More »
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
Turning a cult classic like Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles into a movie is not a task for the faint of heart, and screenwriters Scott Abbot and Michael Petroni have boldly taken up the challenge in this not-quite-followup to INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. They’ve made the, ahem, interesting decision to take Rices subsequent two novels and distill them into… Read More »
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