Red Eye
February 10, 2006
Wes Craven’s 20th film as a director is a calculated attempt to move away from his usual slasher fare and produce a real-time, psychological thriller. Red Eye is perfectly perfunctory featuring some above average performances but, ultimately, absurd...
Le Samourai
February 8, 2006
Le Samourai (1967) begins with no dialogue for several minutes as director Jean-Pierre Melville expertly conveys everything we need to know visually. He shows professional hitman Jef Costello (Delon) getting ready for a job. It is the kind of introduction...
Alias: Season 4
February 7, 2006
When you watch a show like Alias you realize how out of touch the James Bond franchise is with reality. Alias takes the Bond template and substitutes his predictable, chauvinistic ways with a sexy, young woman and a much more exciting and dynamic way...
Alone in the Dark
February 4, 2006
Christian Slater stars as a mysterious agent on the trail of ancient demons in this latest video game adaptation. We tend to criticise movies these days for being vacuous, poorly written fluff, but there’s a new director on the block that makes...
The Interpreter
February 2, 2006
The Interpreter (2005) has all the pedigree of an A-list Hollywood movie complete with Academy Award winning leads Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, respected director Sydney Pollack, skilled screenwriters Scott Frank and Steven Zaillian and world renowned...
Sin City
January 29, 2006
Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller as loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,...
The Glass Shield: Special Edition
January 23, 2006
Charles Burnett is one of America’s most underrated filmmakers working today. Unlike his African-American contemporary, Spike Lee, he is not an outspoken personality in his own right, preferring to let the work speak for itself. In many respects, his...
Witness: Special Collector’s Edition
January 19, 2006
Remember when Harrison Ford used to make good movies? It’s scary to think that there is an entire generation that only knows him from dreck like Hollywood Homicide (2003). The ‘80s proved to be his most prolific period where, in between huge blockbuster...
Layer Cake
January 15, 2006
After the dissolution of his partnership with Guy Ritchie (reportedly over the Swept Away remake debacle), producer Matthew Vaughn set out to continue what he and Ritchie had set out to do: make modest yet clever British gangster films with colourful...
Lost: Season 1
January 15, 2006
A man in a disheveled suit wakes up in a jungle. He looks disoriented. He gets up and begins running through the dense foliage and comes out on a beautiful-looking beach. He looks around and is confronted by an absolutely horrific scene. We don’t see...
