Prime
March 12, 2006
Ben Younger’s feature film debut was the brash yet hopelessly derivative Boiler Room (2000) that featured a cast of up-and-comers (like Giovanni Ribisi and Vin Diesel). The film spent too much time quoting Wall Street (1987) and trying too hard to be...
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997
February 13, 2006
Most people forget that Batman (1989) was the first quality comic book adaptation since Superman (1978) because nobody had taken them seriously or bothered to be faithful to the original source material for quite some time. At first, when fans heard who...
Beautiful Girls
January 21, 2006
There is something about turning 30 that makes one re-evaluate their life. It is that time when you are forced to grow up, find direction, settle down and become an adult. Beautiful Girls (1996) concerns a group of men faced with this dilemma. They have...
Be Cool
November 7, 2005
After the success of Get Shorty (1995) as a novel and a film, Elmore Leonard wrote a sequel entitled Be Cool with the notion of it being turned into a film as well (his books read almost like screenplays anyway). It has and with the hope of lightning...
Kill Bill, Volume 2
November 27, 2004
Quentin Tarantino concludes his epic ode to exploitation films with Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) and shifts gears visually and thematically. If Volume 1 was a homage to Asian cinema—specifically, martial arts and samurai films—then Volume 2 pays tribute...
Paycheck
January 5, 2003
Phillip K. Dick just doesn’t get any respect from Hollywood. With the exception of Blade Runner (1982), film producers and writers have butchered his fiction, rendering them unrecognizable by the time they hit the big screen. “We Can You Remember...
Kill Bill volume 1
October 21, 2002
If Jackie Brown (1997) was Quentin Tarantino’s affectionate homage to ’70s Blaxploitation films, then Kill Bill, Volume 1 (2003) is his unabashed love letter to martial arts and Yakuza films from the same decade. The opening credits that feature...
Kill Bill: Volume 1
December 7, 2001
It’s been a long time coming (six years to be exact) but celebrated auteur of all things pop culture Quentin Tarantino is back with this dazzling first part of a revenge tale that blends together nearly every genre he’s waxed lyrical about...
