Director Pedro Almodovar explains the relationship between tunnels and the main character of Manuela (Cecila Roth) in All About My Mother with the line “Manuela runs away. She always runs away on a train, through endless tunnels.” Indeed, Manuela is always moving. With the untimely death of her son, Estoban, she moves to Barcelona to […]
I’ve received a lot of criticism for bashing Jennifer Aniston’s new flick The Good Girl. Although I admit my complaints were drawn from an intentionally drowsy style and tedious writing, I strongly believe that no matter how purposefully uneventful a character’s life, the movie is still responsible for making the character interesting to watch for
All Over the Guy doesn’t tackle the issue of homosexuality, it simply accepts that its characters are gay. And it’s refreshing to see homosexual relationships and straight relationships treated equally. This isn’t another one of those annoying gay rights movies it just wants to have fun. Screenwriter Dan Bucantinsky who also stars in and produced
Now that both Chicago and Cabaret have been dusted off and remounted as seemingly eternal fixtures on Broadway, and the film version of Chicago was such a rousing critical and commercial success, it’s a good time to take a look back at one of the stranger entries in the career of choreographer director Bob Fosse
When you enter into the world of entertainment journalism, you think it’s the coolest thing in the world. Suddenly, doors are opened for you. You can get into movies free, or get books free, or get music free. You can meet directors or movie stars, see rock gods face to face, and get to ask
The thing is, on paper this movie doesn’t seem like a pointless timekiller or at least like such a forgettable one. The writer-director is John Hamburg, who previously worked with Stiller as a writer on Zoolander and Meet the Parents, two projects that make particularly good use of the actor’s talent for silliness and embarrassment,
Jessica Spencer is the hottest, most popular girl in high school. As captain of the cheerleading squad and girlfriend of a dreamy quarterback, Jessica is convinced she has the perfect life. That is, until one day she wakes up in the body of a scraggy 30 year old man! Until she can change herself back,
In 1999, a well regarded Catholic journalist published Hitler’s Pope The Secret History of Pius XII, in which he argued that the titular pontiff, who reigned from 1939 to 1958, had not only failed to speak out against Hitler but had actively ignored evidence of the Holocaust and cut self-serving deals with Berlin. The reaction
American Beauty chronicles the last year in the life of 42 year-old hack magazine writer Lester Burnham (Spacey), a suburban loser that has just about had it with his humdrum life and decides to make a few changes to regain control, for better or for worse. Those changes include quitting his job and blackmailing his
Directed by Wim Wenders The American Friend is as deliberate as The Talented Mr. Ripley is frenetic. It’s a much different pace than you’d expect from this kind of material but which Wenders knows all too well. The film ends up as a set piece for Ganz, with Hopper playing a considerably smaller role than
