The Brothers Bloom

It was with high expectations that I slipped Bloom into my DVD player. After all, Rian Johnson had made the excellent Dashiell-Hammet-in-high-school Brick, one of the coolest indie films of the past few years. Would Bloom have the sharp dialogue, excellent... 

Blindness

After the gritty realism of City of God (2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005), filmmaker Fernando Meirelles decided to shift gears with his next film Blindness (2008), a science fiction parable with a star-studded international cast. The end result... 

Zodiac: Director’s Cut

After the technically accomplished but ultimately hollow thriller Panic Room (2002), director David Fincher returns to familiar subject matter with Zodiac (2007), a dramatization of the murders perpetuated by the infamous serial killer known as Zodiac... 

Rumor Has It

Since her highly publicized break-up with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston has wisely kept busy making movies. Alas, they haven’t been that good. Both Derailed (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005) came and went from theatres relatively fast. The latter film was... 

Just Like Heaven

Reese Witherspoon goes the old Ghost Dad route and plays a woman haunting Mark Ruffalo’s apartment until he can find a way for her to rest in peace. You know what you’re getting with Mark Waters. With the early exception of Freddie Prince... 

13 Going on 30: Fun & Flirty Edition

Despite the unoriginal premise (the movie Big recast with a woman), 13 Going on 30 (2004) is a very entertaining movie and this is due in large part to its star, Jennifer Garner, who brings to her role loads of charm. This movie is the perfect vehicle... 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Collector’s Edition

Filmmaker Michel Gondry must be a firm believer in the old saying, “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” His feature film debut was the Charlie Kaufman-penned Human Nature (2001) that, by most accounts, was simply awful. Maybe Gondry... 

Collateral

Cabbie Jamie Foxx is having a very bad day thanks to hitman Tom Cruise, who hijacks his car and takes him on a killing spree through Los Angeles. Michael Mann, some time after inventing trashy cop shows and bungling Nazi horror movies, has become an American... 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Jim Carrey laughter train stopped somewhere inside the first act of ‘Bruce Almighty’, so it was a wise choice to take on this serious thought provoking surreal romantic drama that comments on the bliss of ignorance and the process of reasoning... 

Collateral

After the commercial failure and mixed critical reaction of the vastly underrated Ali (2001), Michael Mann returns to familiar territory—the urban crime thriller—with Collateral (2004). After making three grandiose epics in a row, he shifts gears...