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Kill Bill – Vol. 2 (2004)

Action/Adventure Rated R

This is the point at which Quentin Tarantino officially crossed the line from junk collector to junk producer. The first Kill Bill installment at least intrinsically offered hope that its follow-up would add a bit of substance to the proceedings. Instead, the second half of Tarantino’s tribute to every crappy kung fu/revenge/biker flick he had

Kill Bill – Vol. 1 (2003)

Action/Adventure Rated R

There’s only one way to explain the exhilarating and exhausting emptiness of Quentin Tarantino’s bloody revenge flick starring Uma Thurman. Facing a severe case of writer’s block, Tarantino must have tried to scribble his way out of it, couldn’t and decided to go ahead and make a movie out of the whims his writing exercises

Killing, The (1957)

Thriller Rated NR

Inspired by the Music Box’s Stanley Kubrick retrospective last week, here is a Kubrick review from the archives. More to come…

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Comedy Rated NR

“Keaton becomes here, quite literally, the calm in the eye of the storm.”

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Drama Rated NR

One of those books at whose feet the movies should cower, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is too astute, too well-observed and to sure of its own voice to ever be sufficiently translated to the screen. Even so, this stuffy effort by director Robert Mulligan is a disappointment. So much of the novel’s reckless

Dressed to Kill (1980)

Thriller Rated R

Yet another example of Brian De Palma’s deep fear and resulting hatred of women. Dressed to Kill centers around psychiatrist Robert Elliott (Michael Caine), whose shaving razor is stolen by a troubled patient and put to gory use against various women. It’s a mystery, sort of – your first guess as to the identity of

Righteous Kill (2008)

Drama Rated R

"…reveals what Robert De Niro and Al Pacino truly have in common: Neither can say no to a crappy script."

The Act of Killing (2013)

Documentary Rated NR

“…intentionally keeps comprehension at bay, and therein lies its moral forcefulness.”

Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

Documentary Rated NR

Director Richard Press gets amazing access to New York Times legend Bill Cunningham, whose on-the-street fashion photography captures style as it’s actually worn, yet Press’ documentary is too tentative to make that access pay off. Cunningham’s work is illuminated, but the man – 80 at the time of filming – remains a bit of a

You Kill Me (2007)

Comedy Rated R

"John Cusack’s Grosse Pointe Blank managed to pull this sort of material off, but that had the distinct advantage of starring, well, John Cusack."
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