The story is pretty simple: On the European front of World War I, the Germans, French, and British (a mostly Scottish brigade) are trenched up within a few hundred feet of each other fighting over a roughly triangular batch of no-man’s-land. It’s Christmas Eve, and the three groups end up tentatively calling a cease-fire and [...]
I don’t know what to write about Three Times. It’s a Chinese film, laid out in three sections–one set in 1966, one in 1911, and one in 2005 (the year it was released). Each section has the same actors playing out a love story. They’re not meant to be connected, I don’t think, in any [...]
I didn’t really expect this to be much more than an excuse to shoot a lot of guns, and I wasn’t wrong. Ethan Hawke is a police sergeant about to close down Precinct 13 for shinier digs, when a prisoner transport caravan stops in to stay the night due to inclement weather. Among those prisoners [...]
Note to Disney, Fox, Dreamworks, and every other studio who attempts to make animated/kids movies (except Pixar, who gets nothing but my undying love): THIS is how you make a family film.
The story is relatively simple: Damian, a young idealistic boy in Manchester, finds a duffel bag with thousands of pound notes in the field behind his family’s new house, and thinks it’s a gift from God.
