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(03/15/07 4:00am)
It's rare to be so entertained by one of the worst movies you'll ever see. In her latest time-travel disaster Premonition, Sandra Bullock awakes one day to find that her husband has been killed in a random car accident, but when she wakes up the next day, he is alive and well. She soon discovers that the days of the week are occurring out of sequence, but alas, her quest to save her husband completely distracts her from uncovering the reason behind this absurd premise. The story's a mess, though the fun lies in sifting through the loose ends to discover how the ridiculous plot lines relate. But it's useless when, in the end, nothing adds up.
(03/15/07 4:00am)
Starter for 10
(03/15/07 4:00am)
A decade before Coppola made The Godfather, Alberto Lattuada released one of the first masterpieces about the mafia, appropriately titled Mafioso. It wasn't meant to be the type of straight drama that people came to expect in mafia films of the 1970s: it was a blend of current Italian cinema movements and the future of mafia films, with a little Italian film history thrown in. Mafioso has its dramatic moments, but it's also a farce, a dark comedy, a neorealist film, a postmodern critique, and a love story all in one. While nothing will ever come close to The Godfather in overall brilliance, Mafioso is in many ways a more ambitious film for its time, and it succeeds at everything it tries to do. The only problems are that it's in black and white, and it's in Italian.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
In The Number 23, Jim Carrey plays Walter Sparrow, an animal control official who becomes obsessed with a murder mystery novel (called The Number 23) which he believes to be based on his own life. The more he reads, the more paranoid he becomes. He begins seeing the number 23 everywhere. His street address, for example, is 1814. Don't see it? Get this: 18 + 1 + 4 = 23. Also, 1 + 8 + 14 = 23. And if that's not enough, 18 + 14 = 32, which is 23 backwards. Impressed? Me neither.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
It's that time of year again. The steady November to December flow of great movies has ended, and we're stuck with Norbit as last weekend's #1 movie at the box office. Yes, it's a sad time for us all. But never fear, for all those good movies that you were too busy to see are coming out on DVD, just in time for you to buy them before 90% don't win any Academy Awards and we all lose interest in them again. That's right, it's Oscar season, and though winning one implies next to nothing about the quality of the movie (see: Crash), everyone is swept up in the Oscar buzz about who will win and who Ellen will make fun of in that cute, sarcastic, back-handed way she always does (full disclosure: I love Ellen and am waiting patiently for the day when she says she was kidding about the whole gay thing). With about a week to go, it's time for Oscar forecasting. Though I haven't seen every movie that's nominated, I feel I am qualified to make some predictions after winning last year's Oscar pool, which I organized and added up the scores for myself. But I swear I won. For real.
(02/15/07 5:00am)
The venerable Reno, Nev. Sheriff's Department has been touring the country to spread the Washoe County brand of cheer and promote their new movie Reno 911!: Miami. At Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police, Street recently sat down with Lieutenant Jim Dangle, Deputy Travis Junior and Deputy Raineesha Williams for a roundtable interview. They talked about the movie and revealed personal secrets. Most of all, they proved that the biggest little mistake policemen can ever make is breaking the fourth wall.
(02/15/07 5:00am)
(10/26/06 4:00am)
Catch a Fire tells the true story of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), a South African terrorist who joins the African National Congress (ANC) only because he is falsely accused of already having done so. Though most of the film poses as a fictionalized account of true events, the film's final minutes feature documentary footage of Chamusso meeting Luke and talking briefly about his life today. Sadly, this documentary interview was by far the most captivating, insightful and moving part of the entire film.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
While making his first feature documentary, The Trials of Henry
Kissinger, Eugene Jarecki stumbled upon footage of President Dwight D.
Eisenhower's farewell address the night before he left the Oval Office.
(02/02/06 5:00am)
In Why We Fight, Eugene Jarecki strings together footage from every war the United States has fought on camera with interviews from experts on the subject in order to prove a point. The film is essentially an opinion piece set on film. Nevertheless, it is as engaging as it is informative, and it ultimately leaves you asking not only why do we fight, but why are we fighting in Iraq right now?
(07/28/05 4:00am)
Rob Schneider takes a lot of crap. He's the butt of endless jokes, and has been since his career on Saturday Night Live. His acting career, in such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Animal, has drawn some of the harshest criticism from critics. But through it all, Schneider has made people laugh, whether they felt comfortable doing so or not. We recently sat down with Rob Schneider to talk about his upcoming film, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
(03/31/05 5:00am)
Aliens of the Deep would've been better in 3-D. The IMAX film follows producer/director James Cameron as he befriends a team of marine biologists as well as NASA scientists and travels to tectonic fault lines at the bottom of the ocean. No sunlight goes that deep, so the organisms that have developed there produce energy in ways unlike any animal ever encountered. The environment in these underwater canyons may be similar to those on other planets, so if NASA ever finds life in space, it may look a lot like what's in this film.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
Though all the hopeless romantics out there hoping to meet and fall in love with a male escort might disagree, The Wedding Date is a disappointment. What started as a nuanced and clever novel (Asking For Trouble by Elizabeth Young) has turned into an average chick flick. The entire plot and most of the best jokes are revealed in the trailer. Sadly, the best part of the movie is its short running time.
(01/20/05 5:00am)
Million Dollar Baby is the conventional movie that everyone's sure to like a lot, but not to love. Clint Eastwood does everything right, the script is simultaneously engaging, funny, and sad. The star performances are flawless, but it's not the kind of movie that inspires debate.
(11/04/04 5:00am)
Alfie
Starring: Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei
Directed by: Charles Shyer
Rated: R
(10/28/04 4:00am)
Ray is this year's first great historical drama. What initially seems like a confused and chaotic film with random flashbacks and surprising images ends up being a film about this confusion and chaos.