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The story follows a group of young Germans who, swept up in a tide of patriotism, join the military to fight for the fatherland in World War I. It is first unclear whom the story is going to follow, but a good ways into the film we start to...
Until I watched the DVD, my familiarity with High School Musical was with basically one scene in the film. One scene that was on every time I turned on the the hotel TV while I was bored on a week-long business trip. Two squeaky-clean teens were singing to each...
It is hard to disparage a “message movie”, especially one with a topic as important as the worldwide AIDS epidemic. 3 Needles presents three thought-provoking tales (that don’t overlap, except for their AIDS theme) tackling the epidemic. The stories span three continents, but are united in that they contain...
As in, quasi-pornographic gore and whole-hog blood and guts. Full throttle. Up close. Thirty feet high and in stereo-surround sound. For almost two hours and twenty minutes. Needless to say, those with delicate constitutions may wish to think twice before queuing up for tickets, and those expecting a thoughtful...
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is obviously a man exploding with talent and passion. He works wonders with actors, and he tends to infuse his tales with a relentless intensity. Amores Perros was his impressive debut, followed by the overly ambitious 21 Grams, which was still admirable. Now he comes...
Maestro Martin (Sven Wollter) falls for his first violinist Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), they begin an affair, and dump their spouses and adult children and run off together to get married. All is glorious in this very adult love story (meaning mature folks for a change), as they honeymoon in...
The day I write this, Akeelah and the Bee has an 84% postive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which basically makes me look like the biggest ass on the planet. “Winning!”, “Heartwarming”, “The feel-good movie of the year!”, “Can you say T-H-E-B-E-S-T-M-O-V-I-E-E-V-E-R-O-H-M-Y-G-O-D?!?!?” And I’m not really exaggerating that much. But...
Like a steaming cinematic turd, this hollow and horrible Christmas comedy arrives on screens just in time to disappoint families for the holidays. I’m not sure what happened to Matthew Broderick’s once-great career, but he’s gone from playing über-cool teenager Ferris Bueller to starring in a string of films...
There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and eventually faces off with the bad-guy emperor has apparently been done before, and I might say that this original film...
Rinko is a pretty yet reserved crisis hotline counselor. Of course, behind her somewhat dorky glasses and conservative dress is a siren waiting to explode. But it ain’t going to happen with her husband Shigehiko, a somewhat doughy man quite a bit her senior, that is more enthusiastic about...
If anything, it offers a character portrait of one man who is not afraid to stand on his own pedestal and shake his liberal fist at conservative pundits and talk-show hosts who offer opinions and muddy facts as news (yeah, we’re looking at you, FOX News). Al Franken, a...
I first saw this film a few years ago at a film festival, enjoyed it, and was later appalled when I heard that Brad Pitt has optioned the rights for a US remake. Sheesh. Can’t Hollywood think of ANY original ideas anymore? The original Infernal Affairs was such a...
