When The Illusionist and The Prestige came out nearly at the same time last year, I set my sights on The Prestige as the one that interested me the most. After all, Christopher Nolan is a director I like a lot, Christian Bale is consistently good as well as really hot (count Hugh Jackman in [...]
Any time you have actresses like Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench together in a movie, expect incredible acting and plenty of sparks, if nothing else. Blanchett is a thirty-something art teacher who becomes involved with one of her fifteen-year-old students. When Dench discovers the affair, she uses her knowledge to gain emotional control over Blanchett, [...]
After this snuck by in theatres with hardly a murmur, I was prepared for it to be really disappointing. Perhaps expectations are everything, because I found it quite a pleasure. I can understand why it wouldn’t have gained mainstream appeal, though…its story about a teenage girl who escapes into a fantasy world to help deal [...]
One of these days I’m going to a) start trusting Netflix’s estimated star ratings for me (they guessed I’d rate this two stars) and also b) remember that Josh Hartnett usually chooses terrible movies to be in. Again, a movie about a notorious unsolved Hollywood murder sounds intriguing. Even the way the film ends up [...]
I call Tommy Lee Jones as the next Clint Eastwood-esque actor-director crossover. Jones directed and starred in this very good little contemporary western, playing a landowner who vows to return the body of one of his Mexican workers to his home after he is killed. The film looks beautiful, nearly as good as anything Eastwood [...]
