![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Deeply affecting, intellectually engaging, and terrifically charismatic, A Beautiful Mind established Russell Crowe as an uncommonly talented movie star while also serving as a showcase for director Ron Howard, co-star Jennifer Connelly and everyone else involved with this Oscar-dominating prod…
WikChip Image
Beautiful Math from a Beautiful Mind
|
||||||
![]() |
||||||
![]() A Film Unfinished shows more death – literal, real death – than perhaps any other movie. Comprised of footage the Nazis shot for a staged documentary of the Warsaw Ghetto, it is an essential Holocaust movie because it’s real, contemporaneous and shows how the Nazis forced the Jews to live in d…
WikChip Image
Unspeakable Cruelty: Life in the Ghetto
|
||||||
![]() Consider A Futile and Stupid Gesture the theatrical companion to Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon. Will Forte plays comedy genius Doug Kenney in Futile and Stupid Gesture, whereas archival footage of the lunatic rea…
WikChip Video
Director & cast discuss the film.
|
||||||
![]() The pop art perfection of A Hard Day’s Night captures the greatest band ever in their greatest movie. They’d make other movies and more transcendent music, but Richard Lester’s revolutionary film first revealed the Beatles to be as smart as they were sexy. And they were super sexy. Mockumenta…
WikChip Image
John plays with Patty Boyd and Pru Bury
|
||||||
![]() This is one of those movies that passed many people by but shouldnt have. It ranks right up there is evil dead and clockwork orange. It isnt a great piece of cinimatic art but by god it is a great movie to watch. |
||||||
![]() Male bonding, tragic beauty and fly fishing merge into one – and exceptional writing runs through it. With apologies to Norman Maclean, that takeoff from his lauded autobiographical novella describes this treasured movie of the same name. Beautifully constructed by director and narrator Robert …
WikChip Video
Even the trailer brings a lump to the...
|
||||||
![]() More a wartime romantic mystery than anything, A Secret is nonetheless as fine a Holocaust picture as you’ll find. Being French, it’s also a sensual love story, or two. Let’s start at the beginning even though the movie starts in the middle. A supremely athletic and thoroughly assimilated …
WikChip Image
Cécile De France: lithe object of desire
|
||||||
![]() Dyspeptic and deeply sacrilegious, the Coen Brothers’ latest is also reliably funny and brilliantly surreal. A ludicrous fable of Biblical proportions, the movie nonetheless oozes verisimilitude, a credit to the manifold talents of the auteur brothers behind it and their virtual Yiddish theater …
WikChip Image
Temptation: One of many Biblical tests.
|
||||||
![]() The slippery slope of crime reached a peak cinematic representation in A Simple Plan. An ill-gotten gain sets the plot in motion, after which the movie follows an exquisite slide into further felonious excitations. This scratches several erogenous zones for lovers of crime cinema. We so enjoy…
WikChip Image
It's been a no good, very bad day.
|