It’s one of the most blatantly simple movies I’ve ever seen: Jim Carrey becomes God. End of story. To say Bruce Almighty would have been a mighty bore without Carrey is a supreme understatement. Carrey ad-libs his way through this film, first as Bruce Nolan, a down on his luck TV newscaster who’s passed over […]
A dark comedy on par with Pulp Fiction, Aussie director Gregor Jordan (in his second film) transports us to Germany in 1989, on an American Army base during the waning days of the Cold War. These enlisted troops aren’t your Officer and a Gentleman go-getters. They’re criminals, offered the option to serve their country in
The first thing you notice in watching Bull Durham is how incredibly young the players are. Costner’s hairline is way up front, Sarandon is a little less wrinkled, and little Tim Robbins looks like he could be in high school. The story, however, still feels ahead of its time, with Sarandon’s femme fatale narrating a
Life is funny sometimes. Like when your girlfriend kills herself and, in spite of your overwhelming desire for revenge, you end up allying yourself with the thugs who drove her to it. But this is just the sort of frenzied path of self destruction writer/director Shinya Tsukamoto thrives on. Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto), a mild-tempered Tokyo
For all of the talk about its legendary car chase through the streets of San Francisco and it is justified Bullitt idles far tool long in the slow lane when it should be blowing by the minivans and the carpoolers. Even the presence of Steve McQueen, with his laid-back, self-assured cool, can’t save it. McQueen
Larry Clark who wrote and directed his first film, Kids, at the tender age of 52 and in the process, broke the mold about what we should expect from a movie about teenagers returns to familiar ground in Bully, a striking and harrowing follow-up. A slam dunk natural subject for Clark, Bully follows the based-on-reality
The best actor nominees for the 1998 Academy Awards will probably be Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan, Nick Nolte and a wild card. Edward Norton or Jeff Bridges should fill this wild card (for American History X and The Big Lebowski) but that won’t happen. Instead, take a look at John Travolta in A
In the vein of Unforgiven comes this moody western about another small town in the middle of nowhere, struggling with its place in a world quickly passing it by. Central to the story is Daniel Dillon (Peter Mullan), mayor of the town of Kingdom Come, Nevada, located on the spot of the gold claim he
A clinically austere art house film, Claire Dolan is Lodge Kerrigan’s follow-up to the rigorous Clean, Shaven. He opens with cool, carefully composed images of impassive skyscrapers, a hollow wind whistling through, before moving to the reticent, emotionally disconnected title character. Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge, Naked) is a high priced prostitute, so down on her
Faster than you can say, “Toys in the attic,” it becomes painfully aware that Peter Winter (Peter Greene Zed from Pulp Fiction), the main character of Lodge H. Kerrigan’s new film, is not quite right. Clean, Shaven is a brief but extremely powerful look at a page from the life of a schizophrenic who is
