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Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa marks the sixth film in the franchise, and the first installment since 1990's widely ridiculed Rocky V. Come to think of it, I think I am, perhaps, the only film lover in the free world, that actually enjoyed Rocky V. I know it to be a silly film with it's idiotic logic (upon Rocky's r... [More]

[Wed Dec 20th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Based on a 1985 novel "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, director and co-writer (with Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger) Tom Tykwer has successfully created a strange, erotic visual landscape of odors. I'm not going to spoil the story and will only briefly summarize it. "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"... [More]

[Tue Dec 19th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
The Dead Girl

The Dead Girl

I liked to be surprised by movies and this small film, writer-director Karen Moncrieff's "The Dead Girl," is a emotionally disturbing film that stands with "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" as gems that should not be overlooked. A dead girl is found in a field. Arden (Toni Collette) finds the b... [More]

[Tue Dec 19th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
The Queen

The Queen

I already lived through every scene of this story. It is seared into my consciousness. The only things I did not know were (a) Prince Charles is visibly terrified of his mother, (b) Prince Philip does not have a British accent, (c) Prime Minister Tony Blair lives a hardscrabble, working-class life a... [More]

[Tue Dec 19th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
Eragon

Eragon

Eragon, or as I like to call it– "Lord of the Rings Episode IV: A New Hope," is a new fantasy film based on a novel written by a seventeen year old by the name of Christopher Paolini. While watching the movie, I could tell that this young fellow is very much in love with Lord of the Rings (watch for... [More]

[Sat Dec 16th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast
The Holiday

The Holiday

The Holiday is a chick flick in every sense of the term. The film is also further proof that Nancy Meyers is one of the more overrated directors out there. Still, she manages to attract stars like Mel Gibson (What Women Want), and Jack Nicholson (Something's Gotta Give) despite writing skills that a... [More]

[Tue Dec 12th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast
Apocalypto

Apocalypto

Apocalypto makes it official. Mel Gibson is a madman. Maybe not the madman that hilarious South Park episode made him out to be (suggesting that Martin Riggs likes to finger paint with his own poop will go down in history as one of the funniest things I've ever seen), still Mel is a little bit nuts.... [More]

[Tue Dec 12th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast
The Good German

The Good German

"The Good German" is based on a novel by Joseph Kanon with a script by Paul Attanasio. I'll try to dope out a bare outline for you: War correspondent Jake Geismer (George Clooney) returns to Berlin right after the end of World War ll. While running a news bureau in Berlin years earlier, he had a lov... [More]

[Sat Dec 9th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
Venus

Venus

If this was about loneliness and the fear of dying alone, I would have loved it. Instead, it's about a decrepit old coot hankering after a dear friend's niece's wayward daughter. Peter O'Toole, now 74, was a beautiful international movie star, but he still has to pay that mortgage. And let's not... [More]

[Sat Dec 9th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is privileged and destined for a luminous future. A Yale student, he is inducted into the secret society of the Skull and Bones brotherhood. His has allies in important places. Edward's stoic idealism is soon noticed and he is recruited by Army General Bill Sullivan (Rober... [More]

[Sat Dec 9th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

Ernest Blom, the president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses, said in a 2006 article I read recently (in an airline magazine on my way to South Africa), that conflict diamonds are now all but "an historical fact." Blom noted that "In 2000, it came to our attention that trade in conflict... [More]

[Sat Dec 9th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
Babel

Babel

I am a huge fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu's previous films, "21 Grams" (2003) and "Amores perros" (2000). Iñárritu is able to bring intensely felt human suffering to the screen. While the onslaught of popular films like "Hostel" and the "Saw" franchise exploit physical suffering in the extreme,... [More]

[Sat Dec 9th, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

The male-dominated media is astonished when a good-looking, young female teacher – sometimes a gorgeous blond one – has sex with a 14 or 15 year old boy. No one seems to understand why. Not even psychotherapists offer much insight except the short-rope "bad daddy" excuse. I'm going to explain it – i... [More]

[Sat Dec 2nd, 2006] Written By: Victoria Alexander
For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration is the latest improvisational concoction from Christopher Guest and his righteously talented crew (Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), and it couldn't come at a better time. This is, after all, Oscar season. This clever poke at that all consuming entity know... [More]

[Tue Nov 28th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast
The Fountain

The Fountain

The Fountain is an exuberant, passionate, thirty-five million dollar art film made with visual bravado by an extremely talented film maker. This movie is, all at once, poetic, breathtaking, heartbreaking, and frustrating. Simply put, it's the kind of film that won't play to the masses, but I found i... [More]

[Tue Nov 28th, 2006] Written By: Adam Mast