Archive for August, 2006

Two years after the brilliantly warped film IEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindI, Gondry directs his first full-length screenplay about an artistic man who cant hack it in the real world, as his vivid dreams spill over into his real life. With the semi-autobiographical IThe Science Of SleepIand without Charlie Kaufman to lean onhe is left to his own devices, and ecstatically bangs it out of the park.

It takes a lot of guts to eat fried worms. Whether youre referring to the metaphor for dealing with difficulties in life, or the literal act of chewing down slimy, wriggling fish bait, you need courage and a strong stomach to get through. Based loosely on the novel by Thomas Rockwell, iHow To Eat Fried Wormsi starts out with the kind of gross-out silliness that comes second nature to ten year-old boys, but finishes with the kind of simple and meaningful life lessons that good kids stories should rally around.

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Byron Lawso... Review: And so after all the Internet hype about those motherfuckin' snakes on that motherfuckin' plane, the flick itself is a murky stew of shock effects repeated so often that the suspense quickly droops along with you eyelids. It's not... Rating: 1 Stars

Starring: MyAnna Buring, Craig Conway, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Molly Kayll... Review: Going in, you don't want to know too much about the pulverizing, nerve-frying shocks that Brit writer and director Neil Marshall is merciless about unleashing in The Descent.... Rating: 3 Stars