The Royal Tenenbaums
November 2, 2003
Set to the same wistful, sentimental tone as A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), The Royal Tenenbaums begins with a hilariously edited montage (narrated dryly by Alec Baldwin) that introduces the Tenenbaum children at an early age. Chas (Stiller) is a financial...
Signs
October 31, 2003
Signs is Shyamalan’s third major feature film (fourth if you count the fact that he wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little – yeah I couldn’t believe it either! – anyway back to Signs!) It centres on the Hess family, living on the...
The Hire
October 25, 2003
In 2001, BMW and filmmaker, David Fincher (Fight Club), created a series of ambitious short films promoting their cars. Fincher selected five internationally acclaimed directors to make the films and allowed gave them complete artistic control. The only...
Tomorrow
October 23, 2003
For fans of actor Robert Duvall, Tomorrow (1972) has been a long sought after and vastly underrated movie in his lengthy career. Adapted from a short story by William Faulkner, Duvall first essayed the role on the stage opposite Olga Bellin. It was a...
G.I. Jane
October 19, 2003
G.I. Jane flopped at the box office. This is an incontrovertible fact. It was a dead flop. As said in the movie ‘America is just not ready to see its young women come home in body bags’. However I think this film is still worthy of merit....
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
October 5, 2003
“Ah yes, Breakfast At Tiffany’s,” I hear you say. “Audrey Hepburn. A classic.” Well, you’d be half right, because while Hepburn is her usual luminous self (helped by Blake Edwards’ longing soft-focus close-ups),...
Donnie Darko
September 30, 2003
A hit at Sundance last year, Donnie Darko arrives here with a highly deserved buzz of anticipation but bafflingly limited cinema release. On paper the setup sounds cheesy – Messed up teen sees giant bunny rabbit who predicts end of the world –...
Near Dark
September 28, 2003
The year 1987 was kind to horror film lovers, producing a double-shot of vampire thrillers: The Lost Boys and Near Dark. The former’s MTV-friendly soundtrack, coupled with then heartthrobs Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland, resulted in the latter’s...
Miracle
September 20, 2003
In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team achieved what many, at the time, thought impossible. They beat the seemingly invincible Soviet hockey team and went on to capture the Gold Medal. Miracle (2004) attempts to recreate those incredible times and the...
Long Time Dead
September 15, 2003
What an utterly incompetent piece of absolute garbage, can someone please tell me how movies like this get made? On my Episode 1 rating (You know how bad Episode 1 is? Well I now rate movies as to how long they take me to get restless, bored and angry...
