1/20/2007
Braff boldly goes, exactly where he's gone before.
The distribution and deconstruction of the innermost workings the male mind has to offer, oftentimes come to the same and disastrous conclusion; the grass is always greener, no matter the side. Whenever there is loneliness, there is desire for consistency and when there is consistency, loneliness...
12/23/2006
Ed Burns' phenomenal foray into serious filmmaking.
As an unabashed Ed Burns fan, it can be hard to find a way to defend him, to both haters and people who have no idea who he is. Burns polarizes the movie community, oddly enough. He has both a shy diminutive fan base of people who actually enjoy films and, in that consideration, those same people...
11/21/2006
Strangely, wonderful!
Submitting to consistency, often comes with the knowledge that, one who has remained consistent is typically caught unawares he or she has been living a day in and day out similar existence for years. The reprisal for which is generally represented by the sudden and unceremonious realization of...
11/9/2006
Funny, but only in the first 30 minutes.
Re-teaming with his Ghost World cohort, Daniel Clowes, director Terry Zwigoff takes another of Clowes' ideas and runs. Again, utilizing the same kind of patterned recognition of those incapable of being cool, simply because they cannot stop being themselves, Zwigoff and Co. not only show that they...
10/26/2006
Its brilliance is in its reveal.
Oscar Wilde wrote, "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." He was right; illusion serves as a kind of looking glass, one where a person is capable of seeing that which he or she wishes to see. That which is completely unbelievable, but, just for a moment, can be allowed to inspire awe. It is as...
10/19/2006
Hands down, the best film of the year.
Odd, that America's greatest living director would choose to make 2006's most auspicious film from a 2002 cult hit in Hong Kong. Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has allowed his directorial prowess to take him where there was a story to tell. Here, in the ripe world of corruption and...
10/4/2006
Provocative thriller deals in taboo subject.
Perched precariously between potentially depicting the various grotesque and condemnable sexual abnormalities plaguing the Internet, schools, churches and everyday lives of some teens and creating a full fledged adolescent "Fatal Attraction"; "Hard Candy", takes aim, rightfully so, at deranged...
10/4/2006
The cult pin-up idol gets a half-hearted film.
Mary Heron's third feature film, The Notorious Betty Page, reunites here with cast members past, but doesn't seem to have the same luster her previous films held. While this film is not without it's attractive flourishes, it does, however, lack the style, ambiance and aggressively satirical and...
9/26/2006
Fantastically violent.
Too many times, a person of formidable talent(s) precedes his or her own fortuity and gambles by biting off more than they can chew. Sometimes, that person finds that the aforementioned talents truly are diverse and capable of much spreading; other times that person finds those talents have been...
9/12/2006
Inspirational that doesn't make you feel guilty in the morning.
Inspirational films often come with a user warning of high saccharine content. That is, they frequently are so sweet, so endearing that one who is not typically impressed by accomplishments of horses with broken legs, 40-something baseball pitchers or football playing incarcerated juvenile...
