Basic Instinct: Unrated Extended Cut
July 21, 2006
After the success of Basic Instinct (1992), the notion of a sequel was quickly proposed but it wasn’t going to be that easy as the project languished in development hell for many years with several screenwriters and directors being attached and then...
Find Me Guilty
July 18, 2006
There is always a certain amount of anticipation when Sidney Lumet makes another New York City based movie about crime and corruption. Some of his best films – Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Prince of the City (1981) and the underrated Q & A (1990) –...
Cache
July 6, 2006
Cache (2005) is one of those psychological thrillers that leaves its audience with more questions than answers. In some respects, it resembles one David Lynch’s films, specifically Lost Highway (1997), but not quite as abstract or immersed in noir imagery....
Annapolis
June 29, 2006
Annapolis (2006) is a clumsy mash-up of the rah-rah jingoism of Top Gun (1986) with the soapy melodrama of An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) (although, this film tweaks it so that the story plays more like An Officer and An Officer). Jake Huard (Franco)...
Syriana
June 27, 2006
If there’s one good thing that has come out of George W. Bush’s presidency it is a wealth of politically and socially-minded art in response to his unpopular regime. Leading the charge, in Hollywood at least, is George Clooney who has positioned himself...
CSI: Season 5.2
June 26, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American TV series that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American shows such as Buffy, X-Files, 24 etc…...
The World’s Fastest Indian
June 26, 2006
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005) is a fictionalized account of Burt Munro (Hopkins) from Invercargill, New Zealand, who personally modified his old 1920s Indian Scout 45 motorcycle into a 200 mph record-breaking machine. The film follows his journey...
A Nos Amours
June 15, 2006
A Nos Amours (1983) chronicles the day-to-day existence of a 16-year-old French girl named Suzanne (Bonnaire) in the same realistic way as a John Cassavetes film in the sense that director Maurice Pialat also places an emphasis on human behaviour. Pialat...
Fried Green Tomatoes: Anniversary Edition
June 14, 2006
Every decade has its chick flicks that define those years and feature a who’s who of up-and-coming actresses mixed with veterans. In the 1980s, it was Steel Magnolias (1989) and in the 1990s it was Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), a southern folktale based...
One Last Thing…
June 13, 2006
Fresh from his feature film debut of the underrated Prey for Rock ‘n’ Roll (2003), director Alex Steyermark’s next project, One Last Thing… (2005) looked, on paper anyways, like the potential for a cliché-ridden mess – your standard disease...
