The thirty and something years old psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Goodman has an incurable brain tumor that has just started to grow. Felling totally stressed, she decides to spend the weekend in her cottage with her husband, the writer David Goodman, and her sister Melody Read the rest of this entry »
Although many have tried, none have succeeded in capturing King Arthur’s Camelot better than director John Boorman, whose “Excalibur” is the quintessential telling of the myth. Produced and directed by Boorman from a bold, bright script by Rospo Pallenberg and Boorman, “Excalibur” is both dazzling and dark, filled with memorable images and characters that stay with you long after the film has come to an end. Read the rest of this entry »
At first thought, director Radley Metzger is a curious choice to direct mainstream ensemble thriller. Once one of Europe’s most noted soft-core directors (”Therese & Isabelle,” “Camille 2000″), spent the majority of the 1970s directing ground-breaking porno movies under the name of Henry Paris. Read the rest of this entry »
The heart of rock and roll is still beating in writer-director Cameron Crowe’s affectionate, knowing nostalgic nod to his teenage years as a writer for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Anyone who was old enough and conscious to appreciate the early 1970s will totally fall in love with Crowe’s glorious Valentine to rock and roll. This film couldn’t have come from someone who wasn’t there. His observations are so passionate you feel like you’ve been transported back to 1973.
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“Evolution,” the new science-fiction comedy from director Ivan Reitman, is preoccupied with childish humor. So when a group of amateur scientists out to save the world from an alien invasion encounter the sphincter of a massive alien blob, you just know something nasty is going to happen. It does. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul “Wrecking” Crewe was a revered football superstar back in his day, but that time has since faded. But when a messy drunk driving incident lands him in jail, Paul finds he was specifically requested by Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a duplicitous prison official well aware of Paul’s athletic skills. Paul has been assigned the task of assembling a team of convicts, to square off in a big football game against the sadistic guards Read the rest of this entry »
Does the world really need another thriller about the reverberations of adultery?
In director Adrian Lyne’s “Unfaithful,” we’re asked to believe that content wife and mother Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) would jeopardize her marriage to successful and handsome husband Edward (Richard Gere) for a fling with womanizing book seller Paul (Olivier Martinez). Read the rest of this entry »
Having run out of time zones, zombie recreationist George A. Romero rips and shreds his way through a whole new vision, Land of the Dead. Like the living dead, zombie movies never die. They may lose favor, but each new generation brings with it an insatiable appetite for rotting flesh. How else do you explain the whole Madonna craze back in the 1980’s. Read the rest of this entry »
War is indeed hell. It’s not pretty. It’s not supposed to be. It’s supposed to be horrendous, gritty, and ultimately, numbing. There’s no method to its madness. In one small insignificant way, it’s like making movies. Lots of action followed by long periods of boredom and silence. Read the rest of this entry »