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To say that Quentin Tarantino is a movie fan is a bit like saying Paris Hilton likes attention — it’s not only obvious but a gross understatement. Whether you like his work or not, this high school dropout turned video clerk turned cinéaste turned auteur makes wholly unique films. But the paradox is [...]
This week’s show is a study in contrast as we review and compare Hollywood’s painfully formulaic and offensive offering, “The Ugly Truth,” and the stubbornly independent, shoe-string budgeted, almost entirely improvised “Cut From Home.” What can we learn from the overworked, diluted scripts and direction of a Hollywood tentpole release — and of [...]
2007’s “Transformers” was a mindless, tasteless, overly CGI-ed and under-plotted piece of explosion-driven schlock. Not a terribly good movie, but a reasonably good time nonetheless. It’s sequel, however, refuses to take its anti-intellectualism, anti-tolerance, anti-progress, anti-humanity, or anti-cinema lightly.
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is the most aggressively bad movie I have ever [...]
Director David Fincher’s (Fight Club, Se7en) latest offering, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, curiously reminds me of Kevin Costner’s monumentally mediocre Waterworld (1995).
Let me first make the point that Benjamin Button has almost nothing in common with, and is far superior to Costner’s bloated tale of self-aggrandizement; however, these two films do share one [...]
The basic premise of Jan Sverak’s Kolya may conjure notions of banal, feathery frivolty for many film patrons: An aging, lonely, womanizing Czech has his world turned upside down when a young Russian boy is unexpectedly thrust into his life. This of course causes all sorts of inconveniences that are eventually overcome, and both their [...]
