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“Wil” (Michelle Krusiec) is a young Chinese-America doctor who is thrown for a loop when her single mother (Joan Chen) announces she is pregnant, but will not reveal who the father is. It is the scandal of all scandals, as Ma is 48-years old, thusly bringing shame on seemingly...
Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) is a stand-up, strait-laced, good-hearted soldier, who’s happily married to Sarah (Connie Nielsen) and raising two adorable young daughters (Sarah Juel Werner, Rebecca Logstrup). His younger brother, Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), is his polar opposite—brutish, angry and a recently paroled ex-con with a drinking problem. He’s...
Yeah, so I’m a sucker for anything Far North, for anything with sparse Arctic landscapes, and for anything involving man against the elements. Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith as a hapless guy stuck in the tundra, who ends up running naked (pre-Dances With Wolves) with the caribou,...
Hyo-shin and Shi-eun are high school lovers, that share much of their passion through a shared diary that they pass between each other. But one day, Hyo-shin commits suicide by jumping from the roof of the school. The girls’ diary is discovered by a classmate, Min-ah, who, while reading...
Out of all of the women characters in Sin City, I perhaps related to Jessica Alba’s Nancy Callahan the most. Maybe it is because I’m not an assassin hooker. Or a psychiatrist who answers the door wearing only a thong. Or a whore with a heart of gold who...
I’m not that big on horror movies, but I have to say, The Prophecy turned out a lot better than I expected. First, it reunites Elias Koteas and Eric Stoltz from Some Kind of Wonderful, which is so cool. Not long ago, my friend and I had a lengthy...
Everyone knows that I’m a sucker when it comes to crying at movies. I’m so weak that I even cry at movies that I hate, movies that don’t deserve my waterworks. Shamefully manipulative movies like Beaches, where I angrily wipe away my tears at the end, and shake my...
Whispering Corridors begins with a teacher, Mrs. Park, staying after-hours at her girls’ high school to do a little personal research. She pulls old yearbooks off the shelf one by one, flipping through them, looking appropriately horrified at something she’s discovered. A frightening phone call later, she hears a...
While watching High Art, you can’t help but imagine this is what happened when Ally Sheedy’s Allison from The Breakfast Club grew up. Having disappeared for several years after being part of the infamous “Brat Pack” in the 80s, Sheedy returns with a new maturity, and super-cool indie cred by choosing the...
The opening sequence of Assault on Precinct 13 is an assault on the senses. Let me say this: The handheld camera with grainy and contrasty cinematography, combined with MTV-style editing should be used sparingly, people. And your film has to be actually good (see 21 Grams, for instance) to...
Though I am often swayed and a bit star-struck when a director I admire—in this case Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amélie)—is presenting his own film, as was the case of the screening of A Very Long Engagment I attended… I still came away feeling a little disappointed...
Why do I get a sneaking feeling that I’m going to get flogged for this review? Will this movie be embraced by kids and adults alike, and will I be dismissed and chastised for not being able to enjoy a movie for what it is? The other folks at...
