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I think Rosa Maria Sardà has been in perhaps every Spanish movie ever made in recent years, probably most visibly in Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother, playing Penelope Cruz’s mom. But this is the first time I’ve seen her as the main character, and not in a supporting...
Where is our society headed technologically? How will that technology affect our lives? Is artificial life possible? What role will it play in our ongoing evolution? Is advancing technology truly bringing us closer together, or making it disturbingly easy for us to isolate ourselves? We are ripe for a...
John Woo’s American movies have been pretty popular (Mission: Impossible 2, Face/Off), but I’ve always heard that you have to dig into the foreign film section to find his really good stuff. I thought Hard Boiled was great action-packed fun, but Bullet in the Head is considered by many...
A man (Matt Damon) gets fished out of the stormy Mediterranean off the coast of France, with two bullets lodged in his back and his memory a blank slate. Oh yeah, when the fishermen pick the slugs out of him, they also find under his skin a little laser...
One of the most enduring images of Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary is when his character first emerges from an elevator, with a smirk on his face and his eyes darting back and forth on the prowl. After playing the stuttering everyman in many of his previous films,...
Just when you think that only epic 3-hour films can make your ass go numb, along comes the relatively “short” film The Blessing Bell. How can an 87-minute film so thoroughly sap the life out of the viewer? It is hard to explain. It doesn’t help when you (meaning...
“When the rain came, it came first as the scent of rain…” – Kirsty Gunn, Rain Like a slightly faded and worn photograph from the seventies, Christine Jeffs’ new film Rain, based on the acclaimed novel by Kirsty Gunn, is a hazy dream of a coming-of-age story. Looking at...
Before you, dear reader, label me bitter and jaded, let me defend myself by saying that I’m a huge Star Wars fan. When I’m talking Star Wars, I am of course referring to the original trilogy, more specifically the first film (from 1977) and The Empire Strikes Back. My...
Snow Dogs is Northern Exposure, with the fish-out-of-water being a black man instead of a New York Jew. Ted (Cuba), a cornball Miami dentist with a sparkling toothsome grin, inherits a team of sled dogs from a dead woman in Alaska… whom he finds out was his biological mother...
Robin Williams plays Rainbow Randolph, a children’s television show host that has fallen from grace after getting caught taking a bribe from some supposed eager parents who want their kid front row center on his show. Much to his bitterness, the station programmers (Jon Stewart and Catherine Keener) easily...
A lonely 40-something widower Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it is time to get married again, so with the help of a moviemaker friend, opens a casting call for a non-existent film. Actresses show up to “try out” for the film, not knowing, of course that what they’re really auditioning...
Don’t be fooled by the movie poster for Italian for Beginners. With an image of the canals of Venice and a woman’s legs sexily kicked back in a gondola, the poster makes the film look like a run-of-the-mill Hollywood romantic comedy. But this is an officially approved Dogme 95...
