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Now, I enjoy playing video games as much as the next freak with nerd-like tendencies (“My name is Linda. I’m a recovering DOOM addict.”). But the keyword is “playing”…. No one wants to look over the shoulder of someone clicking away with glee on their keyboard or game controls....
Maybe the filmmakers have to build up to making a laugh out loud feature, but I have to say that several of the shorts on this DVD collection of award-winning international lesbian short films are funnier than the vast majority of lesbian “comedies” that a hungry film-niche has been...
Please ignore the fact this film has an instantly forgettable, cookie-cutter title. Disregard the pleasant but vague poster. Get over the fact that you will not recognize a single actor or the first-time feature director. Just listen to me when I say that Raising Victor Vargas is perhaps the...
Now, one of the things I love about going to film festivals is seeing movies “cold”… i.e. glancing over the schedule, eyeing the cast of a film, for instance, and circling it, saying to yourself, “Say, Parker Posey is a funny gal… I think I’ll see this one!” But...
Pre-Six Feet Under, I discovered Lauren Ambrose as a fabulous comic actress in Psycho Beach Party, and then she went and and blew me away with this subtle dramatic role as a different type of beach girl. Frankie is a tomboy that lives in Myrtle Beach, a seaside town...
Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) is, as we’re reminded more than once during this delightfully winning comedy, a ladies’ man, man’s man, man about town. He’s a hotshot writer for KNOW magazine and jets around the globe to get the scoop. He’s also a more-than-successful Casanova who’s bedded a bevy...
The team that brought us the dog-show farce Best in Show and the small-town-puts-on-a-musical spoof Waiting for Guffman now turn their mockumentary eye on folk music. Not just folk music, but imagine if Down From the Mountain starred Peter, Paul, and Mary instead of the more indie-appreciated bluegrass and...
About 20 minutes into The Life of David Gale, I was so simultaneously bored and restless that my mind wandered. I found myself playing mental word games for fun, as I sometimes am apt to do. Suddenly, I came to the realization that in the wondrous English language when...
Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan reprise their roles from the hit Shanghai Noon, as ladies’ man cowboy Roy O’Bannon and former Chinese Imperial guard, now Old West sheriff, Chon Wang. Chon’s father has been killed in China by a hissingly evil stranger (Aiden Gillen, with a single strand of...
Diane Lane, in a Golden Globe-nominated performance, plays Connie, a suburban housewife who has a perfectly nice home, a perfectly nice son, and most importantly, a perfectly nice marriage with Edward (Richard Gere), her husband of 11 years. But one fatefully windy day when she is in the city,...
Catch Me tells the so-unbelievable-it-can-only-be-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (the eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio) a con man of the highest caliber, who happened to pull his greatest scams when he was a mere teen in the 1960s. Between the ages 16 and 19, smooth-talking Frank impersonated an Pan...
The Nose. Much hubbub has been made about The Nose. Specifically Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose in her role as Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel The Hours. Apparently test audiences didn’t even recognize her in the film, and wondered if they had missed something....
