It was Cervantes who said that ‘he who sings frightens away his woes’, and that is what Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova do in this tender and poignant love story, studded with heartbreaking ballads from beginning to end.
Hansard and Irglova play two unnamed musicians living on the cheap in present day Ireland. He’s a vacuum […]
No Reservations opens with Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) slowly describing the most tantalizing and mouth-watering recipe she knows. The camera slides around and around her lip-gloss in a kind of dance as she speaks seductively of tender quail and tempting truffle. Cut to a shot of her therapist. Sorry, that’s all the passion there is in […]
He’s not pretty and he’s certainly not subtle, but Michael Moore knows how to ask a loaded question. After the global success of his documentaries Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, the new target for Moore’s unusual brand of polemic is America’s health care system and the private insurance companies that dominate its landscape. The […]
The man named Mr. Brooks (Kevin Costner) has a problem: although he’s rich, successful, good looking, with a beautiful wife and daughter, he’s a serial killer. But the film named Mr. Brooks has an even more serious problem: although it’s stylishly photographed in a collection of classy locations with a well-known cast, it is utterly […]
This is one of those films likely to divide audiences. It could be described as a Southern tale of sin, redemption and the blues. Or as sexist trash. Either way there’s no denying the powerful work done by Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci in two wonderful central performances that undoubtedly help to make the […]
What do you get if you cross Peter Jackson’s early splatter films (like Bad Taste and Braindead), with New Zealand’s most cuddly agricultural resource? A new genre – the Sheeplotation film. Welcome to Black Sheep which is, dare I say it, shear fun. It’s a horror-comedy that steals and borrows from werewolf movies, zombie […]
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