remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
When Colin finds out his wife has been unfaithful, his friends kidnap the wife's lover and hold him captive so that Colin can get his revenge. So is the story of 44 Inch Chest. The film stars Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane and Ian McShane - and they are all in top form here.
Read MoreAway We Go is a great little romantic-dramedy that takes our main couple (Burt and Verona) on a road trip of sorts, as they try to decide where to make their life with their baby that is due in three months.
Sam Mendes, known from much darker and dramatic fare (American Beauty, Road To Perdition, Revolutionary Road, 1917...) does a really great job with this film. And the script from Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Eggers' wife) is great.
Read MoreCurse Of The Golden Flower was a 2006 film spectacle from acclaimed Chinese director Yimou Zhang, and I mean spectacle in the best sense of the word. Anyone familiar with his other films, Hero and House Of Flying Daggers, will know exactly how good his spectacles are.
Read MoreElegy: a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
The first film I saw from director Isabel Coixet was The Secret Life of Words. And that was by accident, when my PVR recorded the wrong movie. However, it was a happy accident because I really liked that film. So, back in 2008 when Elegy was released I made a point of going to see it in the theatre. And, I was very happy I did.
Read MoreBug is a film that came and went, back in 2007, with relatively little fanfare. Which I remember finding somewhat surprising given that it was directed by William Friedkin. Although, maybe I shouldn’t have been, given that most of the general film-going public probably wouldn’t recognize the name or his place in film history.
Read MoreIn 1992 Clint Eastwood directed the Academy Award winning film, Unforgiven. in 1995 he directed The Bridges Of Madison County, based on the ginormous best-selling book of the same name. However, what many film goers missed was the film Mr. Eastwood made in between those two. In 1993 he directed A Perfect World.
Read MoreThe Wackness: The year is 1994 and our hero, Luke Shapiro, has just graduated from high school. He isn't one of the cool kids (he might be the most popular of the unpopular kids or the least popular of the popular ones), but they all know him because he’s their pot dealer. He also deals to this psychiatrist who happens to be the step dad of this chick he has a huge crush on...
Read MoreBob Hoskins plays, Harold Shand, the big boss man of the London underworld, who is about to close a very lucrative deal with an American crime family that will be worth billions in years to come. However, that is when things start to blow up around him and some of those close to him are killed. Why? Who? How? Are all questions that Harold asks and is determined to find out before it leads to the end of his deal.
Read MoreCes’t Pas Moi, Je Le Jure! translates to It’s Not Me, I Swear! The French-Canadian film takes place in 1968. Leon is a 10-year-old boy with some issues. He’s like Dennis the Menace times 100. Not only does he have a fertile imagination and is kinda suicidal. He seems to have no moral compass when it comes to his actions. Especially when his unhappy mother decides to move to Greece - causing him to act out even more.
Read MoreWhat really struck we about the film was how simple it was. The opening scene has Tommy Lee Jones getting a phone call asking if he knows where his son is. And from there his search begins. There’s no big preamble or anything like that. The movie starts and there we go. And this isn't some grand melodrama as one might expect from such a premise.
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