Despite the previews with Kiefer Sutherland pointing a gun and screaming hoarsely and intensely, this is not a thinly veiled movie of the TV series 24. Well, it reminds me of when 24 was really great, but it’s not Jack Bauer redux. Michael Douglas (demoted from American President to a Secret Service agent) […]

I honestly thought that this movie was going to be a sort of anti-buddy movie, two guys who hate each other just trying to survive some kind of incident. However, it was actually pretty darn entertaining all around. Bruce Willis plays his patented (but never bested) World Weary Cop - yeah, we’ve seen […]

Inside Man looked like it could be a throwaway thriller or else an overly impossible cat burglar extravaganza; the wild card is the fact that it was directed by Spike Lee, who has never been altogether interested with making pedestrian, “regular” movies. Overall, I found Inside Man to be extremely satisfying, and it takes […]

Hollywood is a complex place, modern Hollywood extremely so. People lie, cheat, steal, wear masks, spy, do whatever they can to achieve their goals. When Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) drops his screenplay into the lap of Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), he receives a response only drunkenly fantasized about by most screenwriters. Of course, there […]

It is a testament to the sheer technical filmmaking skills of the shooting crew that this movie is as entertaining as it was. All the acting was impeccable; the airplane set was amazing, interesting, and claustrophobic even with its absurd size. The cinematography and editing were eye-catching and kept your heart beating. […]

If you have ever heard of Charles Busch’s Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, this film is its artistic alter ego. So many movies involving vampires these days go in one of two directions (both far away from Bram Stoker’s original re-invention of the legend) - either goth-rock toughies or embarrassingly cheesey suavesters. Eternal is […]

Red Eye has the kind of plot that requires a lot of very complex coincidences (and stupid people) to make it work. While I got exactly what I wanted out of it, which is delicious dangerous tension between Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, I can’t say that the movie offered me a lot that […]

The Forgotten is one of those movies that when you come out, you want to discuss it like mad, but you do so in hushed voices and half-descriptive phrases so you don’t spoil it for anyone. There’s a lot to spoil! Don’t read any reviews or watch any previews until you see it […]

I wish I could be the first to assess this genuinely scary movie as The Blair Witch Project in the Caribbean, but I have been beaten to the punch. Everything that worked for Blair Witch (video, small cast, complete isolation in the middle of nowhere) is at play here, with the added implacability of […]

After watching the 1962-made (1964-released) original film, I wondered how terribly can modern Hollywood mess up this remake? Sure, plenty of stuff in that black and white craftwork was needless and frustrating, but the fantastic camerawork and twisty mind-bending direction is so cool! Fortunately, Silence of the Lambs’ helmer Jonathan Demme is at […]