This is a movie which is just as mysterious as its title. Some would call it a movie about time travel or science fiction, but it really isn’t. In the same vein as Another Earth it takes a science fiction element as a background against which a very personal story is told. Continue reading
This is another movie that my father in law suggested I’d watch. I had never heard of it and once I finally got around to checking it out I was happily surprised that this is a Hitchcock movie. It turns out the X-Men were not the only ones who were involved in preventing the Russian missle crisis in Cuba. Continue reading
John Hull: How much is this?
Betty McCutcheon: Do you know anything about ethnic art? Have you ever been in a store like this? See, we don’t put price tags on our merchandise. So if you have to ask, then obviously you can’t afford it.
John Hull: In that case I’ll take two of them.
This is one of my favorite movie quotes. It comes from Deep Cover in which cop Russell Stevens (Laurence Fishburne) applies for a job as undercover cop. He becomes John Hull and his job is to infiltrate a drug cartel and get the right information in order to take down the big bosses who are running it. Of course he has to start at the bottom, which means street dealing in order to get attention from David Jason (Jeff Goldblum). Continue reading
The Brothers Bloom is a movie which, when it was out, almost saw at the cinema. I don’t know why, but I ended up watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I completely forgot about this movie until a friend of mine mentioned it and told me it was a movie I had to see. As he doesn’t exactly has the same taste in movies (he liked Smokin Aces 2 and Operation Endgame for example) I wasn’t sure I would like this one, but decided to give it a chance. Continue reading
As it’s the last day of the year I think there is no better way to end it by reviewing my movie of the year by letting it skip the queue of upcoming reviews. With Black Swan I had the same feeling as I had with The Social Network. I was wondering how a movie about a specific subject, in this case ballet, could be interesting. If you check out the dance movies which came out lately you will notice that most of them are targeting a young audience with the drama in those films being equal to the levels you see in your average soap opera. As I try to never watch movie trailers and try to know as little as I can about films in advance, I was in for a big, but very pleasant, surprise. Continue reading
America, the land of the endless possibilities. The country where there are a lot of “rags to riches” stories. A Face in the Crowd shows one of those stories. The movie is set in the fifties. Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) is a popular radio personality who always travels around with her tape recorder to let her audience listen to her conversations with regular Americans. One of her shows brings her to a prison where she convinces the sheriff to allow her to interview the prisoners.
Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes is one of the prisoners. Initially he’s not interested in being interviewed by Marcia, but after some time and a bit of talking she manages to get his permission to record him. It turns out that “Lonesome” is a very interesting character. Besides his very clear opinions about things, he also sings and his appearance in the radio show results in a lot of request to hear more. It doesn’t take long for him to receive a contract. After making his name on the radio he keeps rising and also gets a television show. Continue reading
Michael Ruppert, a man who once was a police officer with the LAPD but quit after seeing that the CIA was involved with the drugs trade, set himself a goal to investigate more issues, uncover them and publish them. He did this in his “Into the Wilderness” magazine. Chris Smith was planning to make a documentary about the involvement of the CIA in the drugs trade, but during the interview with Ruppert found out that he had more to tell. Things that were much more important. The end result is very interesting, but also quite unsettling. Continue reading
The Box is, after Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, the next movie directed by Richard Kelly. As I really liked both of those movies, my expectations were high for this one. Does it manage to be as good? Continue reading