The first words we hear Tom Hardy say in BASIC is in a conversation this ex-Army and currently DEA agent in Panama is having with a colleague, the gist of which is that if he doesnt have the trust of those around him, he cant function. Those are words that will figure greatly in the… Read More »
DREAMCATCHER
The good news for all of us who have been seeing the trailer for DREAMCATCHER since the early Pleistocene Era is that it >doesnt< give everything away. There are plenty of twists, turns and surprises in this elegant and sometimes witty horror flick that is full of invention and characters that rise nicely above the… Read More »
VIEW FROM THE TOP
There is a cautionary tale from old Hollywood about ticking off the head of your studio. John Gilbert, a huge star of the silent screen, once punched out the lights of Louis B Mayer. Now, in all honesty, Jack was under a little emotional strain having just been stood up at the altar by Greta… Read More »
ASSASSINATION TANGO
You will either get caught up the quirkiness of Robert Duvalls latest film or you will leave the theater wondering what the heck it was that you just saw. Either way, theres no doubt that you will come away with why Duvall has become obsessed with the tango. Truth be told, I suspect that said… Read More »
GOOD THIEF, THE
THE GOOD THIEF is a cheeky little film that uses the excuse of a complicated caper to do a character study. Writer/director Neil Jordan, who adapted this from the 1955 French classic, BOB LE FLANEUR, uses smoke, mirrors, and a sleight of hand to keep things interesting, a magic that is certainly more adept than… Read More »
WHAT A GIRL WANTS
WHAT A GIRL WANTS is yet another reworking of the tried and true Cinderella formula. In this case tired and true might be more apt as this version has an American gal from New York breathing some life into stuffy old England. Would that screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler had found a way to… Read More »
PHONE BOOTH
One of those wise old Greeks, perhaps it was Socrates, said that the unexamined life is not worth living. And in PHONE BOOTH, there’s a psycho with a gun who’s taken that bit of philosophy way too literally. This being a Joel Schumacher film, he of FLATLINERS and BATMAN and other flights of high-flown fancy,… Read More »
ANGER MANAGEMENT
With ANGER MANAGEMENT, Adam Sandler continues those first few tentative steps he took with Paul Thomas Anderson’s PUNCH DRUNK LOVE towards appealing to an audience over the age of eight and other than male. There it was a stab at dramatic respectability that worked beyond anyone’s expectations. Here he’s made the bold choice of moving… Read More »
HOLES
There is an attitude among some filmmakers that children’s films should be anything but sophisticated, rather, they should be simple in theme and execution and excruciating for anyone over the age of five. Not just the flicks for little kids, either, as evidenced by such recent mush as WHAT A GIRL WANTS. And for those… Read More »
BULLETPROOF MONK
With a title like BULLETPROOF MONK, it’s not like we can expect a film that will be on the short list for next year’s Oscar. Still, fans of Chow Yun-Fat will find enough here to keep them happy. Chow is the eponymous Tibetan monk, charged with keeping safe a scroll that could spell apocalypse if… Read More »
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