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Notorious is a classic Hitchcock film from the time when he concentrated on story and substance rather than pop-art stylism. Not to knock some of his later important films but I find my favorites to be the polished gems from the 1940s like Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, and Suspicion over later films like Vertigo, [Read More …] 
Walk the Line is the latest in the flurry of biographies of celebrities made into films. This biopic is about the Man in Black, country singer Johnny Cash. Walk the Line is the best of this recent trend due to magnificent performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Johnny Cash and June Carter. Combine [Read More …] 
King Kong is in a word magnificent. This is the reason filmmakers make movies and it is the reason that the rest of us go see films. To be caught up in the spectacle of a world that is so different than our own, to be invested in the accomplishments and defeats of the characters [Read More …] 
The Scary Movie franchise has grown fresher and more interesting since the departure of the Wayans Brothers but it continues to bumble along providing lowbrow physical humor and implied off color jokes. David Zucker has been providing more or less consistent broad slapstick humor since 1980’s Airplane!, and he and Leslie Nielsen don’t seem [Read More …] 
The Da Vinci Code is the big movie. The hype that we have been seeing for months and that audiences have waited more than a year for has culminated into a film that does not live up to its epic buildup. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s big screen adaptation of the Dan Brown novel is [Read More …] |
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