If you like classic films, especially film noir, crime film, and B movies, or if you like the French New Wave filmmakers or any of the films they influenced – in other words, most films made since 1965 and many of the best films before that – then you owe a great debt to [...]
Eh. I know a lot of people who love this film inordinately, but I found it underwhelming, to say the least. Will Ferrell is obnoxiously amusing as Ron Burgundy, the inappropriate anchorman of a popular news show. The rest of the cast is mostly just obnoxious, while Christina Applegate has the thankless job of playing [...]
So when I started watching this, I was thinking it was the crossword puzzle documentary, you know, the one with Jon Stewart in it? But, no, that one is Wordplay. This one is about competitive Scrabble, and doesn’t feature anybody anyone’s heard of. Unless they’re in the world of competitive Scrabble, I guess. But it [...]
Pointless and dull tale of infidelity. You’d think a story about two couples whose close friendship is threatened by the affair of one husband with the other man’s wife, and the reciprocal spiteful affair between the other pair would at least hold a perverse interest, but it doesn’t. It tries to be deep and is [...]
In one sense it was very nice to be able to spend more time with Hawke and Delpy’s characters from Before Sunrise. Nine years after they parted in Vienna (and failed to keep their date to meet up again a year later), they run into each other in Paris and wonder if this is their [...]
