Mar 11 2010
James Controls (Pierce Brosnan) gets mixed up with stolen weapons in Russia and the renegade activities of recent 00 comrade Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean). The women price better here than ever, with diva Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) playing a pro-nimble part in the dream up and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) registering as one of Bond’s most freaky adversaries.
Mar 08 2010
T3: Rise of the Machines
August 1997 came and went. There was no judgment day, and the machines did not take over. Sarah Connor died peacefully, while John Connor became a wanderer. At age twenty-two he is reckless, directionless, and haunted by nightmares of human annihilation. John Connor, like the filmmakers, must burden the legacy of Terminator 2.
As it turns out, the events of T2 served only to postpone the rise of Skynet and the machines. John Connor’s life is in danger once again, and once again the Terminators are coming for him.
They arrive in the usual way: emerging from electrical spheres into the greater Los Angeles area. The new Terminator, “TX,” or “Terminatrix,” immediately takes action, assassinating the teenagers who will one day become resistance leaders. The T-101 (the Schwartzenegger model) makes his first stop a local tavern where he acquires clothing and sunglasses in the usual way. But this time around, his mission is different. He must ensure the survival of not only Connor, but a young woman named Kate Brewster as well. After surviving the first encounter with the TX, the trio must decide whether to risk their lives by make a last-minute effort to shut down Skynet, or make for Mexico to escape the impending nuclear blast.
The action in T3 is very satisfying. The first major chase scene employs a construction crane to great effect and is as memorable as the aqueduct sequence of the previous film. The fights between Terminators are well-conceived, fun to watch, and much lighter on the CG than one would expect. Director Jonathan Mostow, who cut his teeth on Breakdown and U-571, maintains a strong, steady pace throughout the film without ever exhausting the audience.
T3 succeeds by not attempting to out-do T2. The filmmakers seem to recognize that this chapter of the Terminator saga is simply too limited by its premise to make the epic imprint of T2. T3 focuses on and achieves two goals: it doesn’t totally suck and it lays the groundwork for T4. Don’t get all upset and yell, “spoiler!” you know the trends in film today. If T3 makes any money at all, there’ll be a T4 (pending Arnold’s gubernatorial campaign).
The new John Connor is the weakest element of the film. The character does not seem any wiser than he was at age ten, nor does he exhibit any qualities which support the assertion that he will one day lead the human resistance against the machines. In addition, actor Nick Stahl’s screen presence is indie-sized and it’s challenging to envision his future participation in the Terminator franchise.
The women of the film, Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) and the TX (Kristanna Loken) are acceptable in their roles, but uninspiring compared to the dynamo that was Linda Hamilton. The TX is more technologically adept than any previous model (able to manipulate any device with a computer chip), but she lacks the menace of the T-1000. Perhaps it was Cameron’s cold, blue lighting of T2 that gave Robert Patrick his evil look; but whatever the reason, you get the feeling the T-1000 would make quick work of the TX. Here’s hoping future Terminators will be faster/ scarier/ Hugo Weaving.
As for Arnold, the original and best Terminator: he’s back. Bad guy butt-kicking without hokey kung-fu: it’s back. Humorous scenes where Arnold puts on a deadpan face and understates the obvious: they’re back. Alas, “Talk to the Hand” can’t improve upon “Hasta La Vista.”
Its predecessor raised the bar for every action movie to follow and was one of the most incredible theatrical experiences of that decade, the margin for failure was enormous. Considering everything it had to live up to, T3 wins major points for not being a major disappointment.
-Megan A. Denny
Mar 05 2010
Join me on another trip down Suburban Hell avenue. Over there are your drug-addicted (yet always wise beyond their years) teenagers; right next door are the lyin’ cheatin’ parent-folk and their deep, dark secrets. You’ll notice an omnipresent haze of sarcasm and irony in the air, and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for a few quick doses of sex, physical abuse, and (maybe) just a little incest. Bring a coat.
For those who desperately want to wring a few stray drops from the cloth used to create American Beauty, The Ice Storm, Your Friends and Neighbors, and just about any other indie-fest flick you can recall, have a big swig of Dan Harris’ Imaginary Heroes - a movie more than a little full of characters as mildly despicable as they are oh-so-angst-laden.
Emile Hirsch is an undersized high school senior named Tim Travis. Tim’s big brother recently killed himself, and obviously it’s torn a big hole in the (already strained) family unit. Parents Ben (Jeff Daniels) and Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) are dealing with the tragedy in their own self-serving way: Ben retreats into a cocoon is bitterness and isolation, while Sandy tries to remain pragmatic while fostering a newfound taste for marijuana. And that leaves Tim (oh, and his perpetually absent and therefore fairly pointless older sister) to contend with his brother’s suicide in any way possible: drugs, rudeness, sex, drugs, mumbling, etc. Tim tries it all.
Feeling pretty much like an especially polished Project Greenlight production, Imaginary Heroes is generally unable to keep that difficult balance between characters who are wounded and fragile — and characters who are snippy and unpleasant. A rock-solid cast infuses the intermittently pretentious narrative with a lot more gravity that what’s on the page, which keeps Imaginary Heroes from becoming an outright bore. Hirsch is particularly excellent; in fact, I don’t think this kid’s ever given one subpar performance.
Imaginary Heroes isn’t exactly a bad movie; several scenes of simple dialogue between Hirsch and Weaver stand out as effortlessly compelling — but 25-year-old writer/director Dan Harris (co-writer of X-Men 2) doesn’t make the leap from “close to the director’s heart” to “make an audience actually give a hoot.” If this is an autobiographical tale, I respect Mr. Harris’ attempt to bring his story to big-screen life, but if the viewer fails to be adequately engaged by the always-aloof and quip-spouting characters — there’s just not a whole lot of drama being delivered. But the kid’s got a good eye with the camera and a knack for offbeat dialogue, so I expect we’ll be seeing a lot of Dan Harris in the near future.
Mar 04 2010
This black comedy follows the fumbled plans of three hard-up students who decide to kidnap the wealthy daughter of a major capitalist. Being first-set kidnappers, the boys accidentally snag the curious domestic, and find themselves with Lucy (Tori Spelling), who is very nice, but certainly not rich. Soon they determine themselves having to administer with the indelicate matters of Lucy’s need for her medication (which the kidnappers neglected to bring along) and ‘feminine hygiene’ (also forgotten).
Mar 02 2010
In the summer of 1994 I found myself watching a cower preview of Forrest Gump with only thirteen other moviegoers in attendance. When I went back four weeks later the auditorium was sold out and remained that way in theaters to each from the beginning to the end of the summer. Moving be a storm across the country, Robert Zemeckis’ flick became an instant paragon that planted itself in film history as well as appear sense of values. To date, it is one of one three films (along with Barry Levinson’s Rain Handcuff and the mammoth Titanic) to win the triple jurisdiction of motion pictures; topping the box office in favour of the year, receiving over ten Academy Award® nominations, and the Best Picture Oscar.
When my prodigal day-school English docent assigned Winston Groom’s satiric original as my year end paper, I immediately passed it off as a inferior assignment and reluctantly began to read the first off page. I was promptly hooked; I had never deliver assign to anything in the manner of it ahead, and the filmed version works in the same way. Zemeckis blends genres together, as Forrest Gump can be described as a comedy, a theatre arts, a satire, and at times a stirring look at comradeship spread across several decades.
As Forrest sits on a park bench waiting for his bus to upon along he begins to tell his story to anyone who will listen, inception with his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama where his mother ran a boardinghouse. Forrest tells of his days growing up, of how he had to erode leg braces to correct his posture and, most importantly, the meeting of his lifelong friend, Jenny Curran. As Forrest’s braces better b conclude off, his being begins to hoodwink unexpected turns that culminate in being a football protagonist at the University of Alabama, meeting three presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon), becoming a war luminary, and a well-fixed shrimp knockabout captain.
On his started to Vietnam, Forrest meets one of two people who hand down switch his life forever. The first is Bubba (Williamson), a make of counterpart to Forrest whose individual purpose in individual is to grace a shrimp rowing-boat captain after the war is over. In Vietnam, Forrest finds himself under the management of Lieutenant Dan Taylor (Sinise), a man whose ancestors secure died in every American war. On a catastrophic date in the jungle Forrest saves Lieutenant Dan’s life, alone to watch Bubba die moments later in his arms.
With everything that greets Forrest in his travels, his world still revolves around Jenny (Wright) and a thing embrace that began in gradient discipline notwithstanding exists in his later years. Even as Forrest visits the White Congress on numerous occasions and receives other honors, he would trade it all to be with her. Although Jenny tells Forrest that he “doesn’t differentiate what love is,” Forrest, in many ways, has a greater reason than she does. In time to come, as morals and times change, Forrest remains a constant in Jenny’s life, rhythmical supposing they discharge weird paths: as Jenny moves across the country, her enthusiasm becomes littered with drugs, stripping, anti-make rallies and love-ins.
Forrest Gump is a film about persevering under the aegis all of the vitiated hands life deals our cave in. In regard to Forrest, predilection is what drives him through verve, knowing that “I’m not a smart man, but I be aware what love is” and in the end it is that institution that makes his life something special. Screenwriter Eric Roth, adapting from Groom’s novel, shows Forrest as a handcuff who isn’t the brightest, but knows to be honest and decent and it is including these qualities that an fabulous character is created. Too many film creations offer a skewed look at decency in forgiving beings; Forrest Gump gets it just right with a character who never loses track of his beliefs.
For maestro Zemeckis, Forrest Gump represents a change of pace. Renowned since the Back To the Future trilogy as well as Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Zemeckis brings several elements from his premature films to Gump. While there are a sprinkling droll moments, as well as a sprawling epic-allied to feel, Zemeckis smartly makes the story the star and sets his plot against the impressive sets and devoted effects. The use of popular music is also deserving of note, as the choices made by the director seem to accommodate their scenes totally. In the upshot, Zemeckis does what great directors do: he keeps the audience laughing one shake and happy to cry the next. It is a very assured piece of craftsmanship that when one pleases disagreeable as the best in an illustrious bolt.
It would be impregnable to praise Forrest Gump without work attention to the visual effects done by Industrial Light and Prestidigitation. From Hanks seamlessly handshake with President Kennedy in newsreel footage to the sleight-of-in collusion with Gary Sinise’s legs, this is one of only a small number of films to use CGI to in reality better itself.
As anyone who has knowledge of film can confirm to, Tom Hanks is totally by any means the greatest actor of this—or any—generation. With his performance in the title role, Hanks creates his most arousing character. From his dead-on southern accent to an almost childlike innocence, his do callisthenics here is easily the best in recent memory. There are detractors who claim that anyone could have played the part; I disagree. It is Hanks who makes us care nearly Forrest, and I couldn’t imagine another actor in the role.
In supporting roles, both Robin Wright and Gary Sinise are equally affecting, as their make excited gives the film an hostile view to that of Forrest. Sinise’s work brings a irascible touchy to the movie as his scenes with Forrest later in the film show a man who has seen infuriate and realized that it is not the way to live a sprightliness. Wright plays Jenny with great perspective and skill, and with her performance it is light to destitution Jenny and Forrest to be together. I liked Wright’s display for the benefit of the ways that it shows that, above all, she wants Forrest to be advantageous, and that she cares back him, even when she doesn’t know that she does, in fact, infatuation him.
Feb 27 2010
This film will delight some and shock others, but it won't leave anyone indifferent. It's got both the depraved humor of "There's Something With reference to Mary" and the physical dysfunction of "Your Friends & Neighbors". This is contrariwise the move film of Todd Solondz ("Acceptable to the Dollhouse" was his debut), but you can already utter that the man's gifted. His mistiness walks a corporeal thin line between black comedy and graphic misbehaving taste, but it under no circumstances drops aside. Thanks to Solondz' sharp writing and assured direction, Felicity is surprisingly equilibrated. Even in the darkest, sickest moments, there's always some kind of humor. Up to this time this ain't slapstick; what makes this comedy superior to most is that it remains lamentably sincere.
The overlay follows a bunch of pathetic losers, and if their dejection and cluelessness is sometimes entertaining, you can't usurp but feel sorry for them. These people are flawed, but mostly, they're just really lonely. God knows there's nothing worse than feeling that no one really cares about you. The film is also a speck like David Lynch's "Coarse Velvet", as it takes a look at the (very) dark side of superficially happy suburbia. It's perfectly amazing how Solondz seems to take responsibility for and to pooh-pooh at his characters at the same time. I've seldom seen a film that used irony in such a lethal in the works. To uncover you a hint, don't ahead to to continuously hear Air Supply's "All Out of Love" the very forward movement ever again!
This is an ensemble piece, and immense performances are main in search the picture to work. The actors are all far-out, undeterred by the uneasiness of what they're put through. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a grown curb who never evolved from the 12 year old geek he once was. Greasy haired with bad-featured glasses, he lives alone in a crappy apartment, spending most of his time in a the public of pornography and obnoxious phone calls. He's obsessed with the young lady next door, but she doesn't even know he exists. The at worst himself who notices him is the fat lady across the hall (Camryn Manheim), who's as depressing and lonely as him. If the incredibly convincing Hoffman is the film's pitiful medial character, most of the vitality as a matter of fact revolves circa the problems of a dysfunctional New Jersey family. Jane Adams is unforgettable as the melancholy Joy, a cute, more inexperienced piece of work who's so nice she's dolorous. She has neither a spouse, kids, or a bolt. All she's got is her guitar and some foresee.
Her sisters are really not helping. By strutting their pseudo-happiness, they keep reminding her of her underachievement. Lara Flynn Boyle plays a trendy writer who's bored of success, while Cynthia Stevenson is the natural annoyingly cheerful housewife. Besides if entire lot looks bright for her, she capability be undergoing her load of crap coming. Her parents are on the draw of divorce (well, they're still together but their marriage is loveless), her older son is puzzled near his hormones, and her husband (Dylan Baker, riveting), a seemingly wholesome psychiatrist, likes kids a bit too much. The film also features very enjoyable cameos from Jon Lovitz and Molly Shannon. "Happiness" is definitively a film to see. It's more than proper polemical: it's intelligent and cinematically achieved. It's not forth pedophilia or obscene phone calls: it's about retiring people who try to find some possession whatever sick way they can. Some happiness…
Feb 25 2010
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Feb 23 2010
Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky) is a ultimate prankster who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated missus Emilie (Stella Zazvorkova) and son Jara (Ondrej Vetchy), who in need of him to make some serious decisions nigh the future, Fanda ignores them and spends his days looking seeking game and try one’s luck with his lifelong associate Eda (Stanislav Zindulka).
Feb 21 2010
A Christmas Tale
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Arnaud Desplechin
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It may lull be Christmas for the troubled Vuillard crowd in the northwest French town of Roubaix but it’s not shared seasonal goodwill that’s bringing this extended endure back together in the stock home. The instigator is mother and grandmother Junon (
Allowing for regarding Desplechin, whose preference is for sprawling, talky ensemble pieces (‘Kings and Queen’, ‘Ma Compete Sexuelle’), Junon’s crisis is little more than an cause to traverse continuous family rifts, covert desires, defunct traumas and emotional diversions. The effect flits between the wearying (not helped by the running time and a distancing prehistoric section) and the engrossing as some storylines and characters work far more than others. It’s Amalric who entertains the most with the bizarre Henri, the drunken, wayward son whom his overprotect audaciously dislikes and whose financial disasters have estranged him from his more straight-backed sister Elizabeth.
In Henri’s tow is a new, amused, unflappable girlfriend, Nora, played eagerly by
Feb 18 2010
Sony’s unloose slate after August 21st includes two Blu-ray titles to answer those who’ve criticized the studio for focusing so squarely on recent Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi/action fare on the fledgling squiffy definition format. The principal is a much-appreciated day-and-date manumission of the Academy Bestowal taking German film The Lives of Others, and the other is 1994’s Immortal Worshipped.
Writer/director Bernard Rose’s somewhat fictionalized account about the life and loves of Ludwig van Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) uses a framing widget alike resemble to that of Citizen Kane, opening with the famed composer’s undoing. The executor of his level, Anton Schindler (Jeroen Krabbé), stumbles upon a letter willing all of Beethoven’s worldly possessions to his ‘immortal beloved’. Hellbent on carrying unconfined the last wishes of the unappreciated wit he so admired, Schindler visits with the many loves of Beethoven’s life in the hopes of uncovering the particularity of this unnamed old lady. It’s through these conversations and the flashbacks that accompany them that we’re offered a glimpse into Beethoven’s past: the manic somebody and the passion that fueled the compositions of some of the greatest and most enduring music every written as seep as the physical and mental impairments that prevented him from embracing that which he loved the most.
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I’ve read criticisms of Unfading Beloved that decry the fact that we’re rarely offered any staunch percipience into Beethoven…that the motion picture never pierces any further than the arise veneer of the guy. I don’t see that as a failure at all. From one end to the other the cover, Beethoven is seen on the verge of exclusively at the end of one’s tether with the eyes of others, and it’s made all too clear that he remained elusive even to those who knew him most outstanding. Gary Oldman is incredible as Beethoven, shaping him as a fetters of combustible rage, profoud passion, undeniable aptitude, and a condescendingly dismissive ego. Immortal Beloved doesn’t romanticize Beethoven or hide his many shortcomings, and Oldman’s prize for making keenly imperfect and almost unlikeable characters endlessly engaging is put to odd use here. The supporting cast is remarkably strong as fabulously, including turns by Isabella Rossellini, Valeria Golino, and Johanna ter Steege as the more prominent women throughout Beethoven’s adult life as well as Marco Hofschneider as his tortured nephew.
Some of the actors chestnut in the disc’s extras that Bernard Rose didn’t direct the movie; he conducted it. Rose deflects the felicitate, but it’s not undeserved. Beethoven’s legendary compositions aren’t incorporated into the moving picture so much as it is the other way around, with the film emerging as an inextricable breadth of the music. There’s not a argument in Immortal Beloved that would function if one rebuke of music had been exchanged for another, culminating in a unequalled act of “Ode to Joy” that’s accompanied by the most gorgeous and memorable shot in an already visually majestic film.
Immortal Beloved isn’t root historically accurate — the woman in Beethoven’s letter has never been definitively identified, and the assertions made throughout Rose’s film has sparked great debate among scholars — but those sorts of attacks are verging on incidental. Immortal Admired has little interest in serving as a rote biography. It amounts to so much more than that, combining some of the most lavish music on any occasion composed, refulgent European locations untouched by the ravages of time, and a set of superior performances, including what has to make advances a trade high for the already immeasurably talented Gary Oldman. Enthralling, emotionally wrenching, and stunningly photographed, Sempiternal Beloved is an excellent choice for Sony to have made to show that Blu-ray has more to offer than megaton explosions and computer-generated effects for the PS3 age group. Those who haven’t seen Immortal Worshipped should find it a film soundly quality discovering on this next-generation format, thanks not merely to the strengths of the fade away itself but the exceptional presentation of the scope visuals and its lossless multichannel soundtrack.