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Review: A MIGHTY WIND

May 9, 2003 Rich Drees

In a cinema landscape overrun with in your face comedies like Adam Sandler’s Anger Management, the latest mockumentary from Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind, is, if you’ll excuse the obvious metaphor here, a breath of [click for more]

Review: IDENTITY

April 26, 2003 Rich Drees

It’s a common enough formula for a suspense movie. Isolate a group of characters that are strangers to each other in a desolate location and then start killing them off. As the body count and [click for more]

Review: BULLETPROOF MONK

April 16, 2003 Rich Drees

Raymond Chandler had an axiom when he was writing his hard-boiled detective novels- “When in doubt, have a man with a gun come through the door.” This must be the only writing advice ever given [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Fest Review: THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

April 14, 2003 Rich Drees

The Magdalene Sisters is a film that should and very likely will infuriate its audiences. Some will be outraged at what they may perceive as an attack on Catholic Church authority. Others will be aghast [click for more]

Review: THE CORE

March 29, 2003 Rich Drees

Journeys to the center of the Earth have been a staple of fantasy literature since Dante visited the Inferno and Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole. Unfortunately modern science has replaced the imaginative worlds of [click for more]

Review: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

March 28, 2003 Rich Drees

One thing that makes for potent drama or comedy is the clash of cultures, how one group of people reacts to ways different from their own. At the surface, that’s what the British dramedy Bend [click for more]

Review: ADAPTATION

February 14, 2003 Rich Drees

In Being John Malkovich, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze took their audience literally inside the mind of a great Hollywood actor. With their new collaboration Adaptation, the pair now take us inside the [click for more]

Review: DAREDEVIL

February 14, 2003 Rich Drees

It’s looking to be a good year for fans of comic book films. Upcoming months will see Academy Award nominated director Ang Lee’s take on the four-color retelling of Jekyll and Hyde The Hulk, Bryan [click for more]

Review: LOST IN LA MANCHA

February 2, 2003 Rich Drees

When director Terry Gilliam invited documentarians Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe to chronicle in the making of the science-fiction thriller Twelve Monkeys, he said that “if anything should go wrong, at least I’ll have witnesses.” [click for more]

Review: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND

December 31, 2002 Rich Drees

It’s a running joke among some film fans that James Bond is the worst secret agent ever. Everywhere he goes he just announces himself with his real name. Not very inconspicuous. But now the movies [click for more]