Movie Review | ‘Turistas’: Ugly Americans, Young, Attractive and Tormented
November 30th, 2006
If stupidity were a crime, the nitwits in the cheap horror flick Turistas would be doing time in Attica.
Archive for November, 2006
Movie Review | ‘3 Needles’: The Long and Fatal Reach of an Unyielding Epidemic
November 30th, 2006
Had it taken a more hard-headed approach, 3 Needles might have been to the AIDS epidemic what Traffic was to the drug trade.
Movie Review | ‘The Architect’: Malaise in the Projects, and Elsewhere
November 30th, 2006
The Architect, written and directed by Matt Tauber from a play by the Scottish writer David Greig, feels like a creaky, tone-deaf classroom exercise in mechanical contrivance.
Movie Review | ‘The Nativity Story’: The Virgin Mary as a Teenager With Worries
November 30th, 2006
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Mike Rich, "The Nativity Story" sticks to the familiar details of the narrative and dramatizes them with sincerity and good taste.
Movie Review | ‘10 Items or Less’: Lingering on the Express Line: Bagging Some Humanity Amid Bar-Code Scanners
November 30th, 2006
Brad Silberlings new movie has nothing to prove, and not all that much to say, but its modesty and good humor make it hard to resist.
Movie Review | ‘Four Eyed Monsters’: Love in the Modern Age
November 30th, 2006
This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.
Movie Review | ‘Highway Courtesans’: Struggling With Life on a Road to Nowhere
November 30th, 2006
Nine years in the making and timeless in its observations, Highway Courtesans is an intimate look at some of the youngest practitioners of the worlds oldest profession.
Escape Artist
November 29th, 2006
Neal Gablers biography of Walt Disney presents a man in flight from a deprived childhood.
The Messengers
November 29th, 2006
There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon. They can see what adults cannot, they believe what adults deny. In THE MESSENGERS, a suspense thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Anne Miller and John Corbett, the Solomon family has left big city life for a secluded farm in North Dakota. Soon after they arrive at their new home, 16 year-old Jess and her 3 year-old brother begin seeing ominous apparitions that no one else can see, and are repeatedly attacked by something from the other side. Now they must try desperately to warn the rest of the family before its too late.
Bobby
November 29th, 2006
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Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Demi Moore, William H... Review: Sign me up for any film that reflects the burgeoning idealism of Robert Kennedy when he ran for the presidency. At the climax of Bobby, when the senator is shot by Sirhan... Rating: 1 Stars |