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review: KUNG FU HUSTLE

April 22, 2005 Rich Drees

Judging from box office history, American audiences seem to be ethnocentric to a point to where they are adverse to films with subtitles. That’s a shame, because these people will probably pass right by the [click for more]

Review: BE COOL

March 4, 2005 Rich Drees

“Sequels,” former loan shark turned movie producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) ruefully muses in the opening moments of Be Cool, a sequel to the 1995 comedy Get Shorty. “The only time I ever gave into [click for more]

Review: CONSTANTINE

February 18, 2005 Rich Drees

John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is a damned man and he knows it. Cursed with the ability to see the agents of heaven and hell who walk our world trying to influence mortals to good or [click for more]

Early, Racier Version of Stanwyck’s BAY FACE Discovered

February 15, 2005 Rich Drees

A racier, pre-release version of Baby Face (1933), already one of the most notorious of all the films of Hollywood’s Pre-Code era, has recently been discovered in the Library of Congress’s film archives. Baby Face [click for more]

Review: ELEKTRA

January 15, 2005 Rich Drees

It is perhaps inevitable that some will compare Elektra with last year’s Daredevil since the former is a spin-off from the latter comic book adaptation. It would be a fair comparison too, as both films [click for more]

Review: BEYOND THE SEA

December 30, 2004 Rich Drees

Beyond The Sea, the life story of 1950s and 60s singing sensation Bobby Darin adapted for the big screen by actor turned writer and director Kevin Spacey, is definitely a labor of love. Unfortunately, one [click for more]

Review: THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

December 26, 2004 Rich Drees

Will success spoil Wes Anderson? That seemed to be the question on the minds of many who have followed this quirky director’s rising career from his debut film Bottle Rocket (1996) through Rushmore (1998) and [click for more]

Review: THE AVIATOR

December 25, 2004 Rich Drees

There are few, if any figures of the twentieth century who can claim to have influenced and changed not one but two American industries the way Howard Hughes did. Hughes’ airline concerns helped advance the [click for more]

Review: HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS

December 5, 2004 Rich Drees

After having let Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s Hero sit on a shelf for nearly two years before releasing it to American theatres this past fall, distrbutor Miramax films must have been pleasantly surprised when it [click for more]

Review: AFTER THE SUNSET

November 12, 2004 Rich Drees

Max (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola (Salma Hayek) are two of the best jewel thieves in the world, adroitly dodging the apprehension attempts of FBI agent Stan Lloyd (Woody Harrelson). After successfully pulling off one final [click for more]