Before Sunset
June 13, 2005
It’s been nine years since Richard Linklater’s thoughtful and touching romance, Before Sunrise (1995) graced screens. Since then fans of the movie have wondered and ruminated about what happened to the two main characters. Did they meet up as promised...
Betty Blue: Unrated Director’s Cut
May 8, 2005
Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue (1986) brilliantly captures the rise and fall of a tumultuous relationship between a man and a woman. For years, North Americans have only had access to the truncated two-hour version. Now, the nice folks at Columbia...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
April 18, 2005
The Jim Carrey laughter train stopped somewhere inside the first act of ‘Bruce Almighty’, so it was a wise choice to take on this serious thought provoking surreal romantic drama that comments on the bliss of ignorance and the process of reasoning...
Division III: Football’s Finest
March 15, 2005
Like motability scooters in supermarkets, America does sports comedies better than us Brits. Exhibit A, m’lud: Slap Shot, Horse Feathers and The Bad News Bears versus Blackball, The Calcium Kid and Up ‘n’ Under. I may be doing the British film industry...
50 First Dates
December 29, 2004
Once again Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are thrown together for a laugh-a-minute romantic comedy, and after the on-screen chemistry of ‘The Wedding Singer’, dollar signs must have been rolling and kerching noises must have been kerching-ing...
Jersey Girl
December 28, 2004
Ever since Kevin Smith made Clerks (1994), he has been threatening to make a PG-rated, mainstream audience-friendly movie that his folks could actually go and see. Jersey Girl was his attempt. The question remained, would he soften the edges of his trademark...
Out of Sight: Collector’s Edition
December 16, 2004
“It’s like seeing someone for the first time. You can be passing on the street and you look at each other and for a few seconds there’s this kind of recognition. Like you both know something, and the next moment the person’s gone....
The Village
December 16, 2004
There are those out there that consider M. Night Shyamalan to be this generation’s Hitchcock (albeit with a thirst for horror), and there are those who consider him a hack who relies on outlandish plot twists. If you didn’t like The Sixth...
The Girl Next Door: Unrated Version
December 13, 2004
If the American Pie movies were a new Millennium reworking of the Porky’s films, then The Girl Next Door is Risky Business (1983) for the 21st Century. Whereas Risky Business was a reflection of the age of materialism that defined the 1980s, The Girl...
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
November 30, 2004
It must be everyone’s fantasy to be dating his or her favourite sexy movie star and for Kate Bosworth’s Rosalee that fantasy is about to come true when she discovers a competition to win a date with Tad Hamilton. Her dreams are fulfilled when...
