So. Imagine you’ve reached the climax (heh) of a the novel you’re reading, and the supernatural, demon bad-guy is confronted by the local law enforcement officer, and this cop opens up a can of peanuts in the demon’s face. But stay with me though. Because it’s not even a can of peanuts. It’s one of [...]

You know, driving is one of my all time favorite things to do. I sit in the air conditioned comfy seat, and rock out to my favorite tunes. It’s awesome. But, as much as I love it, sometimes I space out, and lose track of what’s going on. And maybe I drift a little. Nothing [...]

Ok, so we’ve been running this little SLEEPER CELL section of the Mediabreach for going on eight months now, so it’s probably a little late for an introduction. Still, here I am. Hello, my name is Zack, and I love movies. (Everybody, let’s welcome Zack to the group. Group response (smiling, but not too excited): [...]

The new animated feature from the director of Belleville Rendezvous (The Triplets of Belleville), Sylvain Chomet. This looks amazing early, and will no doubt make us all forget about Eddie Norton’s disappointing magic man movie. Old man magician movies have some kind of charm – see also The Great Buck Howard. You might have to [...]

Volume two of our musical theater sleepers takes us into darker territory. Obviously, Sweeney Todd isn’t really a sleeper since most people at least know the basic story: dude returns from his banishment to Botany Bay (and beyond) to find that his wife has died and his daughter adopted by said dude’s evil nemesis. Dude [...]

Now I know what you’re thinkin. You saw the title “Candide” and thought, “He’s not really going to talk about eighteenth century French literature is he??
Vous misez ton cul I am.
Recorded live from Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, New York. It’s here we start the [...]

As much as we’d sometimes like to believe it, no first time feature length motion picture director just up and makes a movie for the first time ever and churns out work that can be compared to the great movies of all time, such as Reservoir Dogs or The Shawshank Redemption. It just doesn’t happen. [...]

Instead of a new review of an overlooked movie, I thought it necessary to instead offer a look at the next sure blockbuster. Julia Roberts (the star of such films as Closer, Flatliners and sister to film superstar Eric Roberts (Dark Knight) and aunt to newcomer Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew) is once again showing us all how it’s done.

Eat, Pray, Love is the new movie from Hollywood’s very own Queen of Everything, Julia Roberts (based on the memoir of the same name by Elizabeth Gilbert). She stars as some woman unfulfilled by her wonderful life who goes to far off countries in hopes of finding out something true about the universe. She tries to get a divorce, cheats on her husband, studies yoga in India, eats her way through a few months in Italy and cheats on her husband some more in Indonesia. Hooray! It’s okay though, ’cause her husband is the very borderline-attractive Billy Crudup, and she’s doin’ it with James Franco (and maybe Javier Bardem). Also starring Viola Davis (from Knight and Day and Nights in Rodanthe) and Richard Jenkins (of Dear John and Fun with Dick and Jane). Opens August 13 EVERYWHERE!

Welcome to the third installment of the movies you missed because they went straight to DVD, but you didn’t know it, and you should be fine with it. This one is a drama. See, the first one Ink was fantasy. Then Jack Brooks was horror. Next week will probably be a comedy. But why plan [...]

Welcome to installment number 2 of the movies you shouldn’t at all feel bad you missed. This week’s straight to DVD feature had a 2.5 million dollar budget and debuted to mixed reviews at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona. But, unlike last week’s fare, John Knautz’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer at least had a [...]

This review begins the first themed run of reviews in the Sleeper Cell column. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be reviewing a few movies that you should feel no guilt about missing.
Ink writer/director Jamin Winans was unable to get any distribution for his movie (despite winning the award for Best International Feature at the [...]

Next up in the increasingly long line of movies that don’t need remakes/sequels is the 1984 sci-fi/adventure The Last Starfighter. One of the hallmarks of 80s childhoodry is Nick Castle’s intergalactic romper where young Alex Rogan, a video game prodigy, is tapped by the Star League to pilot a starfighter. After the home base is [...]

When deciding on a movie for this week’s Sleeper Cell, I couldn’t choose between David LaChapelle’s gritty urban documentary of South Central hip hop dancers Rize and David Cronenberg’s 1999 whacked out sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. So I’m cheating by going totally off the board and selecting a live recording of a London dramatic performance! In [...]

To say whether or not I think Splice is any good (or bad) is to assume that I know what the hell kind of movie it is. And, since I don’t, I can’t. All I know is that Guillermo del Toro is a producer, and it was directed by the dude who directed Cube (Vincenzo Natali) … which was awesome (and really, you should rent that instead). But Splice? I’m not really sure … it was funny. Is that a plus?

Find out after the jump.

“The ball is round. The game is 90 minutes. That’s a fact. Everything else is pure theory.”
– Officer Schuster 
For being a movie all about action and music and imagery and running, Tom Tykwer’s 1998 Lola Rennt (auf Englisch, Run Lola Run, and run she does) is all about words. More specifically, the movie is sort [...]