Pickpocket
February 13, 2006
Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959) is about Michel (LaSalle), a man compelled to steal from others. He works the streets, subways and train stations of Paris taking money from unsuspecting victims with his nimble fingers. He wears a plain, non-descript...
Naked
February 13, 2006
It has been said that there is a fine line between genius and madness and this is certainly epitomized by the protagonist of Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993), a scathing, uncompromising portrait of an angry young man. Does genius preclude or cause madness?...
Unleashed
February 10, 2006
Man’s best friend takes on a new role. He’s loyal, obedient, loving and will kick the ass of the criminal underworld if they don’t pay up. Previously titled “Danny the Dog” – Unleashed brings a culture clash to our screens, as the...
The Apartment: Collector’s Edition
February 9, 2006
The Apartment (1960) features the misadventures of C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Lemmon), an anonymous office drone working at a large insurance company in New York City. He loans out his apartment several nights a week to his bosses and their dates in the hopes...
Bad Timing
February 7, 2006
Tom Waits’ “Invitation to the Blues” plays over the opening credits of Bad Timing (1980) and this establishes the melancholy mood of a movie that explores the rise and fall arc of an obsessive relationship between a man and a woman in an unflinching...
Me and You and Everyone We Know
February 7, 2006
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) is a meditative and thoughtful, an intensely personal movie about alienated people trying to connect with each other in an impersonal world. There is a refreshing unpredictable quality to this movie that guarantees...
Veronica Mars: Season 1
February 7, 2006
Veronica Mars is one of those TV shows that flies under the mainstream radar to become a critics darling. Along with Alias, it is a show that wouldn’t have seen the light of day if it hadn’t been for Buffy the Vampire Slayer which proved that a genre...
Lords of Dogtown: Unrated Extended Cut
February 6, 2006
American Gothic: The Complete Series
February 6, 2006
American Gothic was the victim of lousy timing. When it debuted on network TV in 1995, it arrived too late to ride on the coattails of Twin Peaks’ success and too early to ride the wave of popularity of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel....
CSI: NY: Season 1
February 5, 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…...
