Comedy Rated R
“…such a dead-on parody of the Michael Bay school of loud, senseless and bombastic action cinema that it gave me an authentic Bad Boys headache.
Drama Rated R
“What are the chances you would leave a movie starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe shrugging your shoulders?
Thriller Rated R
“It’s hard to choose the ickiest part of Perfect Stranger…
Thriller Rated NR
Vertigo is too fussy and hermetic to be the best film from Alfred Hitchcock (that would be Rear Window), yet it certainly is his defining picture – the one that reveals the obsessiveness at the center of his art. Kim Novak is the center of obsession as Madeleine, a suicidal San Francisco socialite who is
Romantic Comedy Rated R
This doesn’t quite have the devotion to zaniness that excellent farce requires – director Lasse Hallstrom keeps squeezing in forced sentiment – but the madcap cast makes the movie a minor delight nonetheless. Heath Ledger ably anchors this comic riff on the legendary lover and writer of 18th-century Venice, while Jeremy Irons and Oliver Platt,
Drama Rated PG-13
NBA fans feeling gloomy about the me-first personalities plaguing the league can find some comfort in this fact-based sports drama about a high school basketball coach (Samuel L. Jackson) who made national headlines in 1999 for benching his winning team until they raised their grades. Worth seeing simply for the moment when Jackson launches into
Dreamcatcher begins as one thing, turns into something else and then becomes something completely different. None of them are any good. A clumsy adaptation of a Stephen King novel, the movie involves – among other things – alien worms, boyhood pals, telepathy, secret government forces, extreme intestinal irritation and the defiantly bushy eyebrows of Morgan
“We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms.” So says Thelma Ritter in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. If she’s right, the movies are partly to blame. This is a movie about watching others – it taps into the very voyeurism that drives the cinema. Ritter plays Stella, nurse to James Stewart’s L.B. Jefferies, a photographer who
Comedy Rated PG-13
Why should the guys in The Full Monty have all the fun? Calendar Girls, based on a true story, features middle-aged members of one of Britain’s staid Women’s Institute groups who decide to pose without clothes for their annual calendar, shocking their rural town and unexpectedly become the sensation of the nation. Sure, it’s charming,
A riveting combination of thriller and social drama, Dirty Pretty Things steeps us in London’s exploited immigrant subculture. The story follows a doctor-turned-hotel clerk from Nigeria (a mesmerizing Chiwetel Ejiofor) who stumbles across a heinous black-market operation at his hotel and is forced to either participate or be deported. From director Stephen Frears.
