Looney Tunes: Back In Action
I don’t know why people hate Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003) the way they do. Negative reviews have kept me away from this Joe Dante classic for far too… Read more »
Tag: 2000s
Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009) won the Jury Prize at Cannes and received almost exclusively rave reviews upon its initial release. Fish Tank utilizes contemporary cinematic tactics such as a… Read more »
Bedazzled
Growing up I saw Harold Ramis’ remake before I saw Peter Cook’s original film Bedazzled (1967) directed by Stanley Donen. On second thought, the term “remake” doesn’t quite suit Ramis’… Read more »
The Family Man
This holiday season I have been revisiting a lot of my seasonal favorites from 3615 code Père Noël (1989) to Since You Went Away (1944). But I have also been… Read more »
The Lord Of The Rings
Peter Jackson’s much lauded adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings continues to resonate with audiences some fifteen years after the final film, The Return Of The King (2003), was… Read more »
All The Real Girls
There’s a certain point into the editing process of a film when everything you do with the intention of making the narrative work just seems to confuse the whole thing. … Read more »
The Island
Michael Bay has exactly the reputation that he deserves, which is why I have always been so pleasantly surprised by The Island (2005). It’s not that The Island is anything… Read more »
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Having just watched the criminally underrated Patty Hearst (1988), Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) was a tremendous disappointment. Of course, this isn’t entirely Paul Schrader’s fault. Dominion suffers mostly… Read more »
Charlie Wilson’s War
Mike Nichols’ film career as a director has been as long as it is varied. In fact I find many of his films to be either overrated, such as The Graduate… Read more »
The Weather Underground
Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s The Weather Underground (2002) represents something unique in almost all American political documentaries, the convincing illusion of objectivity. Part of this may be accounted for by… Read more »
