Whatever Works is the new comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Starring Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the mind behind Seinfeld) as nihilistic Boris Yellnikoff, Whatever Works is the culmination of Woody Allen philosophy, uncertain affairs of the heart, and the coincidental workings of the universe. What I mean by that is, Whatever [...]
Read More comedy, DVD, Jeremy, Larry David, PG-13, Rachel Evan Wood, romance, Whatever Works, Woody AllenSurveillance is the second film by director Jennifer Lynch. If the last name sounds familiar and you happen to be asking yourself as to whether or not she has any relation to director David Lynch, then the answer is yes. Jennifer Lynch is his daughter, and like her father, she too knows how to make [...]
Read More Bill Pullman, comedy, drama, DVD, Jennifer Lynch, Jeremy, Julia Ormond, PG-13, romance, SurveillanceBeeping consoles. Whirring Fans. The sounds of malfunctioning, T.V. shopping-network-bought products. These are just a few of the things that come into mind when I hear the name Jacques Tati. Play Time (1973), while already having its place in the Criterion library, is now released unto us via the Blu-Ray disc format, and for those [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, Criterion, Jacques Tati, Jeremy, Not Rated, Play TimeTAMPOPO (1985) (Japan) Directed by: Juzo Itami Rarely do I see a comedy from Japan I can recommend. In fact I probably never have, but Tampopo is my one exception. Here is a film that explores cultural differences of exotic cuisine. It’s East meets West in Japan’s first “Spaghetti Western”. Tampopo tells the tale of [...]
Read More Japan, Jeremy, Juzo Itami, staff pick, TampopoZack Snyder‘s newest comic book adaptation of the Watchmen had me holding my breath as I feared for the worst after his short and inconsistent body of previous work. His remake of Dawn of the Dead was the high point of his career, as Snyder displayed a unique sense of independence. On the other hand, [...]
Read More action, Billy Crudup, blu-ray, drama, DVD, Frank Miller, Jeremy, R, Sci-Fi, thriller, Watchmen, Zack SnyderTo simply say that Waltz with Bashir is just another war documentary would be an understatement of sizzler-sized proportions. Writer, director, and fellow interviewer Ari Folman‘s roto-scoped documentary (think A Scanner Darkly) examines painful yet sometimes beautiful accounts of the Lebanese invasion of 1982. The interviews held are all proposed by Folman in his attempt [...]
Read More animation, Ari Folman, biography, blu-ray, documentary, drama, DVD, Jeremy, R, Waltz With Bashir, warThe Spirit was an original comic strip created by Will Eisner in the 1940′s. Its “cereal box” comic look gave the comic a very two dimensional look, but anyone who has ever read these great classics knows the characters and story are much deeper than that. Today, The Spirit continues as a DC Comics (creators [...]
Read More comedy, Darwyn Cooke, DVD, Eva Mendes, femme fatale, Frank Miller, Jamie King, Jeremy, romance, Samuel Jackson, Scarlett Johanssen, Sin City, The Spirit, Will EisnerSynecdoche, NY is a film about everything. It paints life, death, and the failing pursuit of happiness with a less than wide pallet of colors ranging from gray to black and lastly, a color I’ve decided to name blacker than black. That just means this film is heavy and grim. There’s not a whole lot [...]
Read More Catherine Keener, Charlie Kaufman, comedy, drama, DVD, Jeremy, NY, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, R, SynecdocheThe way I saw it, Changeling felt like a strange love child born out of both the acting style of Angelina Jolie‘s earlier works, i.e., Girl, Interrupted and a visual tale of desperate humanization that Clint Eastwood has begun to constantly barrage our theaters with. Changeling is the story of a mother whose child is [...]
Read More Angelina Jolie, Changeling, Clint Eastwood, drama, History, Jeremy, John Malkovich, Mystery, R, Tom Stern