Horror Rated R
“I think Waterworld 2 might have been a smarter career move.
Drama Rated NR
The Big Sleep legendarily doesn’t make a lick of sense, but you really wouldn’t want it to. Watching the sleazy, double-crossing characters in this Raymond Chandler adaptation talk circles around each other is the movie’s great joy. The picture was delayed about a year while director Howard Hawks shot new scenes, partly to clarify the
Horror Rated NR
“This is as good as a giant, radioactive ant movie is likely to get.”
The underground torture ring dreamed up by writer-director Eli Roth for his Hostel series appears to have more employees than Disney World. It’s quite an operation, one whose implausibility symbolizes the silliness of Roth’s overall technique. The filmmaker has his loyal followers – including, notably, Quentin Tarantino – but Hostel: Part II is a poorly
Drama Rated PG-13
“…one of those bright, shiny things that delights us as if we were simple babies. If you don’t believe me, watch how it will even make some women drool.
Family Rated PG
“The central joke – and major appeal – of Surf’s Up is that the picture doesn’t seem to realize its stars are penguins.
Satoshi Kon isn’t working on nearly the same level here as with Millennium Actress, even if this animated feature has its slight charms. Centering on a trio of homeless wanderers who stumble upon an abandoned baby at Christmas, Kon’s film relies heavily on coincidence and broad humor. The main characters – an alcoholic, a former
Drama Rated PG
There’s more nuance, drama and genuine emotion in this animated tale than in half the live-action stories to come out of Hollywood. The multilayered movie follows a documentary filmmaker who tracks down an aging Japanese movie star and asks her to recount her past. What follows is a magical interweaving of flashback, re-enacted scenes from
The memorial statue as movie. From Joaquin Phoenix, as a family man and firefighter, to John Travolta, as his barking crew chief, to every firefighter down the line, these are all buff, burly men of honor – real-life action heroes with all the humanity of a piece of plastic. Technically it has nothing to do
Documentary Rated G
The use of 3-D technology gives an extra kick to the archival photographs on display, but the rest of this 1998 Imax film is a forced, unfocused attempt to interweave a biography of Mark Twain with American history. As writer-director-producer Stephen Low scrambles for material, the movie begins to resemble a last-minute school report more
