The Merchant/ Ivory film factory usually dwells on the genteel angst of Victorians. With LE DIVORCE, they take a modern tale and turn it into a flawed but charming little film, long on the foibles of human interaction, a bit short on filling in the details. Never mind. Watching the subtle culture clash as American… Read More »
OPEN RANGE
At the beginning of OPEN RANGE, Kevin Costners latest directing, acting and producing effort, a wagon becomes stuck in the mud after a torrential rainstorm. Kevin and his co-star Robert Duvall do get the wagon rolling again. Alas, the film itself remains mired in situ. Kevin returns here to the western genre and hes certainly… Read More »
THIRTEEN
There is a menace to Catherine Hardwickes THIRTEEN. The reason is that the fall from grace and sobriety experienced by its lead character, Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), is one that she eagerly embraces with all the reckless passion and aching desperation that only a thirteen-year-old can harbor. Hardwicke, setting her story squarely in the real… Read More »
MEDALLION, THE
Click here for Jackie’s interview for THE TUXEDO.It takes a film like THE MEDALLION to put in perspective why Jackie Chan is the object of cult adoration that he is. It is only Jackies undeniable charm that carries this flick through its distinctly un-engrossing first part. It is only Jackies undeniable charm that makes the… Read More »
PARTY MONSTER
For some people, reality is a choice and they would rather not. Why be an office drone when you can be a star, even if it’s only for a night and in a dress made of toilet paper? This was the thinking behind the Club Kids scene and the backdrop for one of New York’s… Read More »
LOST IN TRANSLATION
With LOST IN TRANSLATION, writer/director Sofia Coppola lives up to the promise of the potential she exhibited in GODFATHER III. This tedious vanity piece is enlivened only by the charm of its leading man, Bill Murray, and by the astonishingly haphazard way in which the film as a whole appears to have been slapped together. Murray plays… Read More »
BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS, THE
There’s a whole lot of nothing going on in THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS. In a script that tries to tackle everything from the Big Bang to the present, or so it seems, one is left at the end with a work that is so much less than the sum of its parts, that it… Read More »
MAMBO ITALIANO
MAMBO ITALIANO makes such a good start before it devolves into the bland humor found in the type of second-tier type of sitcom that its hero, Angelo, dreams of writing. The story begins with Angelo (Luke Kirby) on the phone to the Gay Hotline, spilling his family history to a volunteer who can barely get… Read More »
THE ORDER
In A KNIGHTS TALE, an odd film of which I am inordinately fond, Brian Helgelend told a serious story with comedy. In his latest effort, THE ORDER, he tells a serious story with tedium. The results are considerably less appealing. Not that I didnt know something was up when this turkey was released without a… Read More »
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, the latest installment of Robert Rodriguez’s EL MARIACHI series. begins with a bang and barely pauses to catch its breath until its suitably bloody denouement. Antonio Banderas returns as the fastest guitar in Mexico, and I don’t just mean the way he pounds out chords on his stringed instrument… Read More »
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