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« Previous EntriesIn Search of Myths & Heroes
Monday, January 12th, 2009Director: Michael Wood
Take a break from staid TV features and watch an entire series on travel, history and adventure. This four-part series produced for BBC and the PBS television network combines all three as it retraces the origins of four famous myths across the continents. Michael checks out the myth of Jason and the Golden [...]
The Punisher War Zone
Friday, December 26th, 2008 Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Cast: Tom Jane, John Travolta
Sometimes, just to get over the week’s intellectual burden on your mind, you need a real solid dose of a blood-and-gore slug fest. So, here’s the perfect weekend watch. Based on a lesser known Marvel Comics character, Frank Castle, It’s a slam-banger, akin to the 1970s vigilante flicks [...]
Roman Polanski Repulsion
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, John Fraser, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark
What’s bizarre about this 1965 black and white movie by the great director-for whom this is a first in English-is that the viewer becomes a voyeur who gets to peep into a disturbed mind. Carol (Catherine), a Belgian manicurist working in a London [...]
Broken Flowers:Bill Murray’s expressions-bored and cynical.
Friday, December 5th, 2008Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Julie Deply, Jessica Lange
The ‘oh-so-original’ tag can be a handicap for filmmakers like Jim, since viewers and critics alike are always busy searching for their trademark style in all films. This one-a Grand Prix winner at Cannes 2005-actually has a tidy story not fractured [...]
Waitress Movie (2007) starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion & Cheryl Hines
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Director: Adrienne Shelly
Cast: Keri Russel, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines
Jenna (Ken) a small-town waitress with big ; dreams bakes great pies and secretly hopes to win a $25,000 contest so she can walk out on her obnoxious husband and open her own pie shop. Enter a handsome newcomer in town, who might just help Jenna [...]
Hijack is a riveting thriller!
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Shiney as the action man-that’s a new one! Chandigarh airport ground officer Vikram’s life goes haywire when the Amritsar-Delhi flight is hijacked and forced to land at Chandigarh. Reason: His daughter’s on the flight. He manages to sneak into the aircraft with the help of feisty airhostess Saira (Esha). And they start to trounce the [...]
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi), Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusu; Japanese with English subtitle;
A placid countryside in Japan. A blind, blonde man sits on the roadside to rest his aching limbs. A few rogues appear and entice a child to steal his shiny, red cane. The child does the job but gets slap instead [...]
Day Watch
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Aleksei Chadov, Gosha Kutsenko, lgor Lifanov, Zhanna Friske.
This one is a sequel to the 2004 flick Night Watch and is based on the second and third party of Sergey Lukyanenko’s fantasy series The Night Watch.
Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Director: Kurt Voss
Cast: Jaime Pressly, Megan Edwards, Michael Des Barres
lvy’s sis Violet visits the Greer household and soon seduces her way in to throw the family into a state of confusion and deceit!
Family Guy: Animated Comedy
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Director: Dominic Polcino
Voices: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green
This Emmy-nominated premiere episode of the very popular Fox series (Season 6) is a hilarious spoof of Star Wars with outrageous gags and demented droids!