so i went into this movie in my absolute favorite way – i’d read the premise in TOTAL FILM a while back, and then heard nothing else about it until the day before it released. which isn’t my favorite – this isn’t a treatise on film promotion or advertising or anything – i love me [...]
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 [...]
People dog on indie movies, because all indie movies seem to tell goofy stories about quirkier-than-thou characters who end up getting the girl against overwhelming odds, improbably winning an unexpected gunfight or overcoming their debilitating social awkwardness and all this is presented through faux home-spun soundtracks with tinny guitars and totally unnecessary close-ups against a [...]
As is obvious from this picture, and from one viewing of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch is too cool for school. He’s a walking breathing art-house who doesn’t need to try to make quirky movies – he opens his mouth and talks in close-ups and awkward lighting. Coffee and Cigarettes is [...]
Act II scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth ends with Lord Macbeth and his wife hearing a knocking on the gate of his castle in the middle of the night. They have just murdered King Duncan and are afraid that whoever is at the gate will come in and see that they are not in [...]
Ok, quick and to the point: I love this movie so much I want to buy it jewelry and ask it to move in. Yeah‚Ķ But I really didn‚Äôt have a choice from the very first thirty seconds. Patrick Fugit (the dude from Almost Famous) leans over and puts on a record. Tom Waits‚Äô “Dead [...]
This movie is important. Plain and simple. But not that simple. There are a lot of things working against Masked and Anonymous, not the least of which is that it was written and directed by the co-creator of Seinfeld, Larry Charles (Religulous). After all, why on earth should we listen to a professional comedian about the state of world affairs? And it certainly doesn’t help that there was virtually no marketing campaign and that it was released opposite the arthouse juggernaut, Le Divorce. It’s also an uber-politically active (or socially active, depending on how you take it) movie – never the best blockbusters. The cast list is more than impressive, but you wouldn’t be wrong to call Masked and Anonymous “preachy.” It preaches its head off. But it says things that need to be said. More on that after the jump!
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