I recently had the pleasure of watching Marc Forster’s film, Stranger Than Fiction, which I found to be a delightfully charming, intelligent comedy written by first-time screenwriter Zach Helm. I give it two guitars up. Way up. (Platonically speaking of course). It’s about an uptight IRS agent, Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), who realizes that …
The Secret is a very well-done, extremely publicized and super-well marketed movie/documentary on the “Law of Attraction.” Brought to us by the same gang of people who did the very interesting movie What the Bleep Do We Know, The Secret is probably the first high-budget, widely distributed movie on the topic, or actually on …
The very first line I ever heard Woody Allen speak was a joke on the The Tonight Show concerning theological issues, about how, during a divinity test, he cheated by “looking into the soul of the girl sitting next to me.” I believe that he used a clip from such a stand up routine …
Vertigo, a 1958 suspense film, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Many people believe that this film is Hitchcock’s masterpiece. The movie tells the story of a detective in San Francisco. The detectives name is Scottie who is played by James Stewart. Scottie leaves the police force after a fellow policeman falls and dies while …
The Talented Mr. Ripley is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent landscapes of Italy, is a titanic encounter between Ripley, the aforementioned psychopath protagonist and young Greenleaf, a consummate narcissist. Ripley is a cartoonishly poor young adult whose …
Based on the novel written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Stardust features a star-studded cast including Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Peter O’Toole, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Stardust is set in England and goes to la-la-land, another magical world, as the story progresses. …
I had seen a poster referring to Hostel – the latest, frightening movie around. It showed a drill entering the mouth of a poor guy sitting in some kind of torture chamber. Just by seeing the scene on the poster it looked really scary and hard to contemplate, would I dare to watch the …
I must confess that the day I watched the trailer of V For Vendetta at the movie theater I wasn’t any close to be willing to pay a ticket for watching that guy with a funny mask on his face. It seemed to me it would be one more of those simple movies extracted …
After a number of months hearing once and again a ton of good comments about Brokeback Mountain movie I finally had the opportunity to watch this movie in the theaters. I know I’m kind of late, even Oscars have passed, but it took sometime for the film to arrive in my town. Curious sensation …
While the usual expectation is that we are simple-minded enough to be caught up in the mass-media tsunami created by The Da Vinci Code, now a movie starring Tom Hanks, so that we might all the better assist Hollywood in carting off its share of megabucks from this transient tempest for historical tots, let …