Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this is an entertaining movie. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this movie has an implausible plot twist. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Michael Douglas took this part because it took a few days of his life, he made millions, and he could do it in his sleep. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Amber Tamblyn [...]
Read More Amber Tamblyn, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Bruce, drama, DVD, Michael Douglas, Mystery, Orlando Jones, PG-13Inglourious Basterds represents the full flowering of Quentin Tarantino‘s directorial style, in which all the best individual aspects of his previous efforts and all the directorial influences (which I will attempt to enumerate) have been synthesized into a glorious whole – making this the best film of the decade. This story of ultimate Jewish revenge, [...]
Read More Aldo Ray, Brad Pitt, Bruce, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Inglourious Basterds, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbinder, Quentin TarantinoGiulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister of Italy, has one take on his story told here in most entertaining fashion by director Paolo Sorrentino and actor Toni Servillo (Gomorra). Andreotti, still alive and appointed senator-for-life, has been tried, convicted, and acquitted many times for the murders and disappearances of rivals, and being Italian, perhaps he [...]
Read More biography, Bruce, drama, DVD, Giulio Andreotti, Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino, Toni ServilloWhen I saw Adam Resurrected at the Telluride Film Festival in 2008, I thought Jeff Goldblum would finally receive some accolades for his acting – at least a Best Actor nomination. Instead, nothing. This strange, riveting and powerful film received almost no theatrical release, and no critical acclaim to speak of. Let’s give it its [...]
Read More Adam Resurrected, Bruce, drama, DVD, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Schrader, R, warAs directed by Derick Martini (Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire), Lymelife is a sharply observed portrait of suburban Long Island life, circa 1979. Although we’ve seen this kind of film before, Lymelife is a classic example of how meticulously detailed direction of actors, and those actors’ superb character delineations can raise just about any [...]
Read More Alec Baldwin, Bruce, comedy, Cynthia Nixon, Derick Martini, drama, DVD, Emma Roberts, Kieran Culkin, Lymelife, R, Rory Culkin, Timothy HuttonA film whose star persona looks like an exotic, feral animal; one who makes a living doing something you or I wouldn’t consider participating in in a million years, right? This must be a review for The Girlfriend Experience. After all, the star also seems to be much more than just the jaw-dropping surface and [...]
Read More Bruce, documentary, DVD, James Toback, Mike Tyson, R, TysonKate Winslet won a well-deserved Oscar this year – for the wrong performance. She did as much as could be expected from any actress in The Reader, a bloated, sensationalistic, preposterous story, in which her performance seemed to convince Academy voters. Perhaps those same voters might care to rent Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?
Read More Bruce, drama, DVD, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon, R, Revolutionary Road, romance, Zoe KazanWise Blood is the paradigm of the Southern Gothic tradition – a style of writing defined by strange, archetypal characters, often possessed of wild, uncontrollable emotions, set in equally alien milieus (at least to us Yankees), i.e. America’s Deep South. The chief practitioners of this writing style were Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams. [...]
Read More Brad Dourif, Bruce, drama, DVD, Flannery O'Connor, Harry Dean Stanton, John Huston, R, Wise BloodWhat happens when you merge the following: Russia’s greatest living director, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich‘s widow (a legendary soprano in her own right), and the ghost of John Ford? Master director Alexander Sokurov‘s Alexandra, that’s what. Sokurov (Russian Ark) here tells the seemingly simple story of a Russian widow visiting her beloved grandson, a Russian Army [...]
Read More Alexander Sokurov, Alexandra, Bruce, drama, DVD, foreign film, Galina Vishnevskaya, warOne of the last holy grails not yet released on DVD has been the literally thousands of hours of film that Andy Warhol directed. Some of it has leaked out over the years, although none of it has been officially sanctioned by The Andy Warhol Estate – until now. Maddeningly, no information about future releases [...]
Read More 13 most beautiful, andy warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Bruce, Dean Wareham, Dennis Hopper, DVD, Edie Sedgwick, Factory Girl, Lou Reed, Mary Woronov, Nico, Robert Quine, Sienna Miller