Eros
March 13, 2006
Aside from the box office failure of the uneven Four Rooms (1995), there are very few high profile anthology films being made. Along comes Eros (2004) that features a collection of three short films exploring eroticism via three distinctive filmmakers:...
The Thing Called Love: Director’s Cut
March 13, 2006
The Thing Called Love (1993) is something of a cinematic oddity. Made towards the end of River Phoenix’s tragically short life and featuring a young Sandra Bullock just before she became a household name with Speed (1994) a year later, it was Peter...
NYPD Blue: Season 3
March 13, 2006
NYPD Blue was seen as the successor to that other venerable television cop show, Hill Street Blues. However, NYPD Blue took the gritty realism to a whole other level with busy, hand-held camerawork, racy sex scenes and profanity not seen on network T.V....
The Weather Man
March 12, 2006
Gore Verbinski is a throwback to filmmakers from the classic Hollywood era in the sense that he’s a journeyman director working in a variety of genres: the romantic comedy (The Mexican), horror (The Ring) and action/adventure (Pirates of the Caribbean)....
November
March 12, 2006
Courtney Cox stars as a disturbed photography teacher who recently lost her boyfriend in a drugstore robbery. As her world starts to crumble, does she have more to do with the murder than even she knows? While the rest of the cast of Friends were struggling...
La bete humaine
March 12, 2006
La Bete Humaine (1938) is often cited as an example of poetic realism, popular in the 1930s in France, and that also anticipated the popularity of film noir in the 1940s. Jean Renoir’s film was based loosely on Emile Zola’s novel with the filmmaker...
Quick Change
March 12, 2006
New York City. There have been many cinematic odes to the Big Apple, from Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979), to Blue in the Face (1995), but few films have shown comedic contempt for this famous metropolis — Martin Scorsese’s double hit of...
Proof
March 12, 2006
Adapted from the award-winning play of the same name, Proof (2005) should have been a slam dunk come awards season and yet it went largely ignored despite the pedigree of being a Miramax film, being directed by John Madden of Shakespeare in Love (1998)...
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...
Jarhead: Collector’s Edition
March 12, 2006
Anticipation was high for Jarhead (2005), the cinematic adaptation of Anthony Swifford’s book of the same name about his experiences as a U.S. foot soldier in the first Persian Gulf War. The reaction to the movie was underwhelming to say the least as...
