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The Last time Jim Carrey and Joel Shumacher teamed up to make a movie, we got Batman Forever, the film that began the downward spiral of an entire franchise. That is, until the franchise was later reinvented by Christopher Nolan. The last time Jim Carrey ventured away from his trademarked brand of comedy, we saw […]

Have you ever tried to take a joke that normally takes 5 minutes to tell and try to stretch it to 15 minutes? Aside from seeing it as a very difficult task, you begin to wonder why you are trying to do it in the first place. The same theory should apply to taking a […]

Bookended by images of a bloodied child, Pan’s Labyrinth is a graphically violent film, pushing the limits of watchability, for example, during a needlessly protracted scene in which a character stitches up his own sliced-up face. Set during the Spanish Civil War, this “fairy tale for adults” (as people won’t stop calling it) earns […]

While Alan Moore’s comic tales are deliberately unfilmable, which has been proven by the directors who tried, Frank Miller’s epics like 300 always seemed to have a cinematic feel to them. Robert Rodriguez did it with Sin City, perfectly transferring Miller’s aesthetics from paper to the screen. I’m really glad to say that Zach Snyder […]

In recent years there has been something that has been conspicuously absent from the Hollywood horror factory. That missing element is genuine creepiness. Most of the horror films that reach our screens fall into one of two categories, first are the sanitized PG-13 rated affairs that survive on jump scares, the others fall into the […]

What can I say? This is a dumb movie, funny, but dumb. If you like the television show, you are most likely going to like the movie. For the rest of the cinema going public, your threshold for dumb comedy, lack of plot, and sheer zaniness will have to be assessed prior to entering the […]

A friend recently asked if I planned on seeing The Science of Sleep, and to his surprise I responded with an unenthusiastic, “eh, maybe.” I like Gondry as a director, I explained, but even more I enjoy Charlie Kaufman’s scripts; the issue for me therefore was, “can Gondry be trusted to make a movie […]

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Robert De Niro is by all means a great actor. Does that mean he can be a good director? His second attempt at it is “The Good Shepherd”, a story about the origins of the CIA, an essay on how to be a textbook spy and a family drama all at once. Sounds intriguing enough […]

Swedish director Anders Nilsson (Den Tredje v¥gen, Livvakterna) has a vast career in action and thriller movies, with most of his films targeted to the international market. He has directed 5 features films and about 80 commercials and has a vast curriculum in screenplay, cinematography and editing. In his latest feature film When darkness […]

Seven Swords marks the first feature from writer/producer/director Tsui Hark since the massively disappointing (at least to me) Black Mask 2. This film is an epic tale of heroism, revenge, loyalty, and love in a gritty world where death may be just around the corner. It is a highly entertaining film that may not be […]

I admit, classic cinema is something of a weak point for me. For all of the movies I have seen, the majority of them have been of a more modern vintage. Now, do not take this as meaning I do not like, or do not watch the films of years past, just not nearly as […]

Will Ferrell waxes dramatic in this week’s DVD Pick of the Week.

Despite dropping 55% from last week, Ghost Rider continues to ride away with box office success!

Take one part bad director, one part bad screen writing and top it off with a random mix of campy dialogue and you might just have a recipe for Hollywood disaster. And while after you throw in some Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes and some cool explosions, the final dish may not be fine dining but […]