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As its title suggests, Robert Altman's masterpiece is set in the world of Country music, but with its cast of 24 characters and almost the same number of intertwined and intersecting stories, it delves deep into the conciousness and conscience of America circa 1975 in Altman's unmistakable mosiac
Based on the TV series 'Firefly', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Angel' (and 'Firefly') creator Joss Whedon's first feature film is a CGI-free sci-fi action adventure, in other words a good old-fashioned space opera, with a ready-made cult status, clever script and effective cast. By general
‘Hide your bridemaids’ the tagline goes. And spare you embarrassment at a sad mad-cap misfire of a movie. Wedding crashers had all the best ideas for starters- a determined quest ...
Introducing a seven part Robert Altman season, this example of the great American directors theatrical work from the 1980s follows on from the James Dean commemoration just finished. In a Texas diner, near the set of Giant, a fans reunion on the 20th anniversary of Deans death unearths old hostilities
What you see is what you get. The title says it all. Mystery horror thriller. Emily Rose (a harrowing performance from Jennifer Carpenter) is exorcised but dies in the process, which puts the exorcist, parish priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) in the dock on negligent homicide charges. A story in
James Deans last movie (he died days after finishing it) and his least appealing, especially in the latter part where the youth icon is compelled to age. As the younger Jett Rink, Dean has all the attractiveness of his rebellious persona, but is perhaps upstaged by megastars Elizabeth Taylor and
Over-hyped, over-cooked and over here, Fantastic Four with its quartet of feeble supermutants, Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, The Invisible Woman and The Human Torch finally (hopefully!) brings the superhero movie franchise to the meltdown point of no return. Not even supervillain Dr. Doom can lift the picture above
Teaming Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda in a Meet the Parents style comedy romance would seem to be a recipe for disaster. The veteran has been enticed out of semi-retirement to play the monstrous mother-in-law-to-be cliche to good bu barely credible effect, while the far
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
John Singleton makes an urban western in this revenge thriller in which the four adopted sons of senselessly murdered Evelyn Mercer vow to avenge her death. Their common mean streets background gives them a unity of purpose and the energy they need to confront the criminal underworld of Detroit. Classic
The first of James Dean's three movies, and the one tha catapulted him to celebrity, securing his plac ein Hollywood firmament. Type-cast from the start, Dean plays the troubled adolescent, Cal Trask at odds with his father and brother in this treatment of part of John Steinbeck's
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
The romantic comedy Must Love Dogs features Miss Lonely-hearts Diane Lane set up for internet dating and looking for suitable company with a borrowed canine friend. It also has the likeable John Cusack. Unfortunately, the result is painful, especially in the script department. For masochists only.
James Dean's second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray's prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death,
When one considers the musical landscape that The White Stripes have jumped into, you’ve got to give them credit for doing so damn well. After five albums, they sound as fresh as ever. Offering new guitar pleasures and witty lyrics to the common folk. This recording again shows
After last year’s emotionally draining Million Dollar Baby, and the long tradition of boxing biopics that came before that (all the Rocky’s and Raging Bulls) yet another one might seem superfluous. But the first-rate teaming of Ron Howard and Russell Crowe (the second time,
Roald Dahl’s famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen a second time, and Tim Burton’s delightful version of the industrial fairy tale provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka.
A futuristic thriller warning of the dangers of human cloning and the harvesting of spare body parts, with a strong cast not quite succeeding in enlivening a structurally unsound movie of two philosophically unreconciled halves. The two attractive protagonists Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlet
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
“A useless, talentless, empty man…” Peter Sellers (an excellent Geoffrey Rush) says of himself in this hatchet-job biopic that is at pains to step out of the standard representational biographic ...
Lightning never strikes in teh same place twice. Or does it? H.G. Wells' visionary 1898 sci-fi novel has had many incarnations- famously on radio by Orson Welles, on film in 1953, on TV and in comics- and now in Steven Speilberg's contemporary American version with man of
The Gorrilaz first pounced on the world with the single “Clint Eastwood” in 2001. Some critics have labelled them unoriginal, but one thing is for certain, their dynamic is original, for the Gorrilaz are a cartoon band. Any picture you will see of the band, weather it be
