Posts Tagged ‘hollywood’
The Artist: Quiet on the Set
This French silent film is unique, crowd-pleasing, and powerful.KRISTIAN LIN
After premiering at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and a Best Actor prize, The Artist has played to rapturous reception at festivals (including the Lone Star International Film Festival) and art houses, pi...
Winding Drive
Ryan Gosling fuels this great, strange, romantic thriller.KRISTIAN LIN
Oh, damn, Ryan Gosling is cool. He’s so cool that it hurts you deep inside. He has become famous as a romantic lead, and indeed his half-smile is enough to melt the stoniest heart. He flashes it occasionally in Drive, but tha...
Smoke Screen
Big TicketMade in 1936, Reefer Madness owes much of its current fame to its rediscovery in the 1960s. That’s because Louis J. Gasnier’s film (properly titled Tell Your Children) is so incredibly, laughably wrong about the effects of ...
Iconic Actress Pam Grier Here Friday
Jeff PrinceWhen it comes to sexy African-American actresses, Pam Grier stands alone. She was Foxy Brown, she was Coffy, and she was one tough black action heroine — something moviegoers had never seen in the 1970s. Blaxploitation fi...
Dragon Tattoo: I Love Playing with Fire
Revenge is Swede in this film version of the hot detective novel.KRISTIAN LIN
It’s not every week that a Swedish novelist who’s been dead for six years makes the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Such is the engrossing power of Stieg Larsson’s posthumously published Millennium trilogy of Swedish-langu...
The Karate Kid: Kung Fu Shuffle
Rest easy, Daniel-san. This remake is a worthy successor.KRISTIAN LIN
All right, this is bugging me: Why is this movie entitled The Karate Kid? I understand why the filmmakers would want to keep the title of the 1984 movie that they were remaking, but this new version is set in China and revolves...
One-Part Drama
Another British import loses its flavor in America: Edge of Darkness.KRISTIAN LIN
The key to understanding what’s right and what’s wrong with Edge of Darkness is knowing that it’s based on a British TV miniseries. Our friends across the Atlantic regularly make intelligent multiple-hour opus...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 30 We intentionally excluded the Texas Brahmas from the sports-related sidebar on this page because we saved this slot for them. The defending Central Hockey League champions, now stuck in the middle of the pack, face off...
The Kids Are All Right
KRISTIAN LINThis whole decade has been pretty much a waste for Robert De Niro. A lucrative waste, but even so …
Through a Lens, Gladly
JEFF PRINCEThe kiss between the young man and woman was sweet – a friendly peck, really. But it didn’t sound right. Needed more smack. The actors weren’t around anymore; filming had wrapped up months ago, and they’...
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