 | Damage [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
 | Empire of the Sun [Read More ...]
Description: Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it al... |
 | Merlin [Read More ...]
Description: What kind of guy was the wizard Merlin, anyway? He lives a long time, raises a boy to be a king, props up a Utopian empire with his magic and wisdom, and then watches as it all crumbles under such banal forces as vengeance and betrayal. This four-hour miniseries re-tells the stor... |
![]() | Human Nature [Read More ...]
Description: This fascinating comedy questions what we mean when we use words like "nature" and "civilization." Lila (Patricia Arquette, Lost Highway, True Romance), a nature writer who grows hair all over her body, falls in love with Nathan (Tim Robbins, The Player, The Hudsucker Proxy), a s... |
 | Kate Bush: The Line, the Cross & The Curve [Read More ...]
Review: Concept album becomes film:The Red Shoes is a concept album (CD) based on the classic novel and film of a ballarina who aquires a pair of magical red ballet shoes that when worn becomes a curse of having to dance forever and ever across the land as she can not remove them. The st... |
 | Designated Mourner [Read More ...]
Indeed, use your ears.:For lovers of the spoken word, for those who cherish poetry. Rare moments, astonishingly delivered. |
 | Twisted Obsession [Read More ...]
Review: Amazing! Different! Fascinating!:
Plot:
Writer Dan Gillis lives in Paris (great so far, but there's more!!)
He lives with his son, and is divorced from his wife. He is hired to write a script based on a quote from Peter Pan, it's all very bizarre, bit even more bizarre is the dir... |
 | Fatherland (1994) [Read More ...]
Description: This retro-futuristic adventure depicts a 1964 in which Hitler won the war and Joe Kennedy Sr. is U.S. president. Europe is known as Germania and opens its borders to American journalists, hoping to line up the U.S. as an ally against Russia. Set design and costumes very effectiv... |
![]() | Damage (Unrated) [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
 | Lilo & Stitch [Read More ...]
Description: "As Elvis might put it, you can't help falling in love with LILO & STITCH." -- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY. Out-of-this-world storytelling, stunning Disney animation, and wild and irresistible characters are at the heart of Disney's hilarious new animated adventure. This worldwide bo... |
 | The Big Brass Ring [Read More ...]
Description: Orson Welles wrote The Big Brass Ring in the early 1980s--his last attempt to create a commercial Hollywood film--but the dynamic, rich screenplay was never produced. Nearly two decades later, independent filmmaker and documentarian George Hickenlooper (Hearts of Darkness) purcha... |
 | Tom & Viv [Read More ...]
Description: Tom is T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe), the St. Louis-born poet who tried to turn himself into an Englishman. Viv is his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). She's got money, which allows him to give up his job and focus on poetry. She urges him on, promotes him to the Bloom... |
 | After Pilkington [Read More ...]
Review: An Uncommonly Intelligent Work, Replete With Superior Moments.:Produced for the BBC, this fascinating videogram based upon the Prix Italia screenplay of Simon Gray offers a great deal to enjoy, thanks essentially to seamless control of the narrative, along with correctly sustaine... |
 | The Prince and Me [Read More ...]
Description: The classic girlhood fantasy of marrying a handsome prince is given a surprisingly realistic and subtle treatment in The Prince and Me. A pre-med student at the University of Wisconsin named Paige (Julia Stiles, 10 Things I Hate About You, Mona Lisa Smile) collides with a lazy, p... |
 | The Apostle [Read More ...]
Description: Written, directed, and personally financed by Robert Duvall, The Apostle was the culmination of a 14-year effort on the part of its creator, who also stars as the dynamic, God-fearing Texas preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey. Vibrantly authentic with its use of real gospel preachers a... |
 | Saint-Ex [Read More ...]
Review: an achievement:You may think that it would be impossible to make a boring film about the exciting life of French aviator and writer Antoine de St. Exupery. You're wrong. This filmmaker achieves it!
By chopping up his life into bits and pieces, scrambling them, presenting suc... |
 | Sleepy Hollow (Spec) [Read More ...]
Description: The films of Tim Burton shine through the muck like a jack-o-lantern on a foggy October night. After such successes as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, it should come as no surprise that Sleepy Hollow is a dazzling film, a delicious reworking of Washington ... |
![]() | Damage [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
 | Damage [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
 | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang [Read More ...]
Review: Great for kids of ALL ages!:I bought this for my 3-year old daughter, and she absolutely loves it! It is a terrific movie, geared towards children, but honestly, I loved it almost as much as she did! My 9-year old son has watched it about a dozen or so times also.
Teaches valuabl... |
