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Mix a splash of cult-movie David Lynchian-absurdity with the lowest-budget sci-fi special effects this side of Plan 9 From Outer Space, and place a space cowboy in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and you might get an inkling of the style of the hilarious and bizarre The...
After seeing a ridiculous amount of movies, it is always exciting when I by chance come across one that completely blows me away visually. It is astonishing that one film can seemingly re-invent the look of movies, without resorting to big budget special effects, but instead concentrating on good...
I have a couple of friends who can attest to my complete and utter lack of flair for the Spanish language. While traveling with them in Spain, they would first laugh as I read aloud from Lonely Planet about places we visited… then the laughter would quickly turn to...
Nørby plays a single, older mother of Brian, an autistic 20-year-old. One night, Brian comes home late with mud on his shoes, and there is news the next morning that a young woman was murdered in the nearby city park. The assumption is obvious from the start, for both...
When VCRs first came out, An American Werewolf in London was one of the first videos where my brother and I discovered the joys of rewinding-your-favorite-scene abuse (“A naked America man stole my balloons!” har har har!). John Landis was still a young director, monster-maker Rick Baker was a...
Call me a bitter person, but I really don’t like singing children. No, let me rephrase that… it’s a bit unfair. I don’t like singing children who have the prima-donna attitude of believing that they are good singers, and think they are cute to boot. The number one offender...
There was this episode of the very funny Fox TV cartoon “King of the Hill”, where middle-aged Hank Hill walks in on his elderly mother having sex with her new boyfriend on the kitchen table. Scrambling to flee the scene, he goes blind (as a defense mechanism?) until he...
The Legend of Rita is a fictionalized story of one such terrorist, a woman named Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) who in the early 1970s robs banks with her boyfriend Andi (Harald Schrott) and their young hipster comrades in the name of reclaiming the money for “the people”. These “revolutionaries”...
I knew about John Woo’s reputation… people have always said that his Hollywood flicks, like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2 just haven’t quite matched up with his earlier Hong Kong work. So this information, plus my current obsession with Tony Leung Chui Wai, put Hard Boiled at the top...
First off, I declare a five-year moratorium on movie titles with active-verb-plus-noun titles. Chasing Amy was fine, clever, and original. But then came Saving Grace, Finding Forrester, the indie Chasing Sleep. It’s no longer clever. It is tiresome. I will name the next film with this pattern Annoying Title....
Hollywood needs to be told that computer geeks very rarely look like Sandra Bullock (The Net), Ryan Phillippe (Antitrust), or Angelina Jolie (Hackers). If these people worked in marketing, I might believe it, but programmers? Unfortunately they (or do I mean many of the people I know?), are a...
In this film biography, Bardem portrays Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas who was persecuted not only for being political and a writer, but for being gay in a time when revolution and counter-revolution brought Fidel Castro to power. This kind of true-life drama is ripe for film, as one man’s...
