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After the first 20 minutes or so of harrowing scenes, multiple-character introductions, and mumbling mountain-climbing mumbo-jumbo, I leaned over to my Japanese friend, who sat wide-eyed, enthralled, yet confused, and asked her if she knew what was going on. She shook her head no, so I wrapped it up...
Ratcatcher is a film about childhood in the same tradition of My Life As a Dog. Just like a child’s life, the story rambles from incident to incident, without much forewarning or thought. In fact, in a rather jarring introduction, we see a little boy playing in the curtains...
TIM: I should have known, going in, that any movie with Val Kilmer should be killed before release. There was soooo much hype about this movie that you had little chance of avoiding it. But once you’re sitting in your chair, screaming for it to end, you are bludgeoned...
Dancer in the Dark caused quite a stir at the Cannes Film Festival when it won the Palme D’Or for Best Picture, as well as the Best Actress award for Icelandic pop singer Björk, in her first acting role ever. Apparently, the film completely divided audiences—they either loved it...
What an odd little film! This French-Canadian film owes a lot to classic French director Eric Rohmer: As in, boy-oh-boy there is a LOT of talking! But the filmmakers have been studying their source carefully: A good “talky” film does not have to be boring. In Julie and Me...
LINDA: Well, let’s just say I’ll never think of the happy sound of “the pitter-patter of tiny feet” the same way again. One of the most-touted scenes that was added to this re-release of The Exorcist (“The Version You’ve Never Seen!”) is of newly-possessed Regan (Linda Blair) scampering on...
Berlin, 1943: A headstrong, sassy young Jewish woman, Felice (Maria Schrader), is working for the underground resistance movement while boldly earning a living working for a Nazi newspaper. Through a friend, she meets and becomes smitten with a mother of four, Lily (Juliane Köhler), a model hausfrau who just...
Croupier (n.) – One who collects and pays bets at a gaming table. Addiction (n.) – To surrender (oneself) habitually or compulsively to something. I have heard of different types of addiction over the course of my years (drugs, alcohol, sex, adrenaline, gambling, and nicotine), but the addiction to...
I wasn’t ever bored (despite the grumblings of those who say that it is long and dull). Jodie Foster is fine as Anna, though I don’t think it will stand as one of her better roles. She does the prim-and-proper, yet headstrong woman quite well… not much of a...
Director Michael Winterbottom will always hold a special place in my heart as the creator of two of the most squirm-inducing films I have ever seen: Jude (with Christopher Eccelston and Kate Winslet) and Butterfly Kiss (with Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves). Can you say “bleak”? I’m so haunted...
The night I rented American Psycho with a friend, we had just been talking about the last time a movie gave us nightmares. For me it had been the movie Jurassic Park. I was embarrassed to say that the night I saw it, I dreamt I was running down...
I’m a huge fan of the Wallace and Gromit clay-animated short films from Nick Park and Aardman Animation, so I, like many so-called adults I know, was really looking forward to Chicken Run. And to tell you the truth, I think the adults in the full theater where I...
