All You’ve Got (MTV) American Soldiers (Velocity) The Big Valley: Season One (Fox) Con Air: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Crimson Tide: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Doogal (Weinstein) Duma (Warner Bros.) Funny Games (Kino) Garçon Stupide (Picture This) Hill Street Blues: Season Two (Fox) My Mother’s Smile (New Yorker)…
Amid brutal competition from A History of Violence, Caché (Hidden), and Last Days, the top prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival went to L’Enfant (The Child), a Belgian drama about a 20-year-old hustler who sells his infant son like a bag of weed. The makers of this provocative movie,…
Art School Confidential is much like every movie pilfered from the Saturday Night Live playbook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour yawns. The work upon which it’s based is a four-page excerpt from a 14-year-old comic book called Eightball, written and drawn by…
Our anemic movie industry recycles so relentlessly that even our complaints about such plasticized repackaging come off as recycled product of their own, offered primarily to draw the line between concerned aging cinephiles and the target consumers who don’t care a whit. But still, we’ve become a culture not merely…
The lovable hero of Goal! The Dream Begins is the kind of guy some Americans don’t find very appealing these days — a Mexican immigrant who’s trying to make a better life in East Los Angeles. Little matter that young Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) busts his butt working two crappy…
When you get down to the nitty-gritty, even Nobel laureate physicists, despite their high-minded ambition to uncover the mysteries of the universe, end up working for food and sex — and eventually to grab some kind of love that will steady them into retirement. Or so it goes in Jamie…
(THINKFilm) I’ve no patience for the Holocaust docudrama — didn’t even see Schindler¹s List till years after its 1993 release, to my parents’ everlasting shame. And so it was I avoided Lajos Koltai’s acclaimed adaptation of Imre Kertész’ Nobel Prize-winning autobiographic novel; are we not already gorged on the grim…
Publisher: Konami
Platform: PlayStation 2
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: E 10+ (for Everyone Over 10)
Score: 3 (out of 10)
The Barbie Diaries Gift Set (Family Home Entertainment) Battle in Heaven (Tartan) The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle: Volume 1 (Sony Wonder) Big Momma’s House 2 (Fox) Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season One (Paramount) The Facts of Life: The Complete First and Second Seasons (Sony) Grandma’s Boy: Unrated Edition (Fox)…
The coming-out tale Summer Storm is set at a rowing camp, where teams of boys and girls from around Germany train for a regatta. One of the crews, made up of gay boys from Berlin, is called the “Queerstrokes,” and that’s about par for the course in terms of subtlety…
Remember Hurricane Wilma? Of course you do. The lack of power, long lines at the gas station, and all those lunatic drivers racing through intersections… man, was that a blast! And if that was the extent of your problems, you were lucky. Just ask the volunteer relief workers who lent…
By now, pretty much everyone knows that last year’s hit movie The Aristocrats was inspired by comedian Gilbert Gottfried. Gottfried had famously launched into the Aristocrats joke – a staple in all comedians’ bag of tricks – after telling an anti-PC September 11 joke that fell flat. (He said that…
First, the bad news: 18 losses. Now, the good: seven wins. That’s the Florida Marlins’ record at press time. But there are other good things to talk about. Namely, that Jeremy Hermida should be back in action after rehabbing a strained hip. Josh Willingham is batting so well that manager…
There’s an old showbiz saying — that it only takes ten or 20 years to become an overnight sensation. But that was before American Idol reduced stardom to winning a talent show. Meanwhile, there are plenty of performers who understand the concept of hard work. Take Craig Shoemaker. Name doesn’t…
Coming closer even than Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers to resembling the Chinese cover art for an Iron Butterfly album, Chen Kaige’s The Promise is psychedelia extremis. Hardly a minute of it passes without a concentrated dose of digital frou-frou and lavish, cartoon-poetic imagery: floating ocean goddesses, flying swordsmen,…
We’ve all done it — killed an afternoon drinking in a pleasantly grungy roadhouse somewhere, boozily enjoying the illusion of having fallen off the grid, playing semi-forgotten blues songs on an outdated jukebox, and thinking aloud See, I should capture this feeling. This should be a movie. Sobered up, we…
The most important thing to know about the new movie Hoot, adapted from the children’s book by Carl Hiaasen, is that it’s co-produced by Jimmy Buffett, who also appears in a small role and provides new music for the soundtrack. Middle-aged drunks and boat owners might possibly rejoice at the…
In 1817, a Tennessee landowner named John Bell was startled by a bizarre creature, described as a dog with a rabbit’s head, which materialized in a cornfield and vanished when fired upon. That night, an unexplained pounding shook the walls of the Bell home. Over the next four years, these…
Smell that? Vegetable oil. Nothing in the world smells like it. I love the smell of vegetable oil in the morning. You know it well, that deep-frying grease smell, like… French fries. Yes, I’m having a Robert Duvall flashback. No getting away from it this time of year. During the…
Mother Nature must need some help expressing her feelings for Sky Father, so Dennis Oppenheim lends the goddess a helping hand in “Salutations to the Sky.” The series of aerial photographs are fictive proposals to redirect the flow of the Sacramento River so that it spells out such messages as…
Tennessee Williams Film Collection (Warner Bros.) All that’s missing from this boxed set — six movies, one doc, eight discs — is a jar of sweat; even Williams is here, in a 1973 documentary. Then there’s Brando, Beatty, Newman, Taylor, Burton, Gardner, Leigh, Malden, Huston, Kazan — the last of…
Publisher: 2K Games
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 10 (out of 10)
