Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is one those people that you meet that you have to ask, “What are you on?” Essentially, she would probably just tell you, simply, “Life.” Poppy, an exuberant and charming school teacher in London, has a vivacity about everything she does that is borderline in need of medication. But that’s just the [...]
Nietzsche said, “Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster.” The existentialist musings of this film are as old as Friedrich himself, which does nothing but further substantiate this film into the existentialist film canon. Charlie Kaufman, writer of many an odd, quirky film, such as Eternal [...]
This movie doesn’t have any idea what it wants to be. It tries to pull a Spiderman and ends up pulling all punches. There isn’t much here to see, except what might possibly happen if Jerry Bruckheimer ever gets his greedy paws on Ghostbusters 3 (planned for 2010, by the way). The movie plays like a [...]
Platoon: A Comedy in 2 Acts is maybe a better title than Tropic Thunder, though it works pretty well, too. Ben Stiller writes, directs, and produces himself, along with Jack Black, Robert Downey, Jr., Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte, Danny McBride, and Tom Cruise, in what turns out to be one of the funniest movies of 2008. It’s sidesplitting [...]
Waltz with Bashir is at once both a genuinely haunting and beautiful experience. 4/4 Stars
In an orgy of gunfire, shootouts, explosions, car chases, and cryptic language, Wanted tells a story that has as much fun as it has loopholes. Though it’s little more than a 90-minute montage of the aforementioned items, with a few plot pieces thrown in for good measure, this movie is about as much fun as you [...]
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Hopefully you’re some form of an existentialist. Preferably a pessimistic, yet mildly amused existentialist. If not, you should still give this film a shot, because it boils down to a way of seeing life: good, bad, or ugly, it is still lived. And in our living of this one [...]
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A horror film can be anything. It doesn’t have to include any armed weapons, serial killers, rapists, or anything supernatural. It may not even have to have the word Saw in the title, but that’s clearly open to debate. Another kind of horror film is any film that truly reveals the horror [...]
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Is there a point in life when we realize we’ve been wasting time? How long does it take for someone who has spent a great portion of his or her life to realize that they were just acting busy? And after those epiphanes strike home, what do you do? In The Visitor, [...]
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Go back to the seventies in America, when the next wave of Civil Rights had just begun. Transport yourself to the kitchen of Harvey Milk, where you will listen to his story, both haunting and revealing of a bygone epoch in American history, but one which still lingers and echoes today. Or, [...]