Category: flicks

  • And in the end…

    I just finished Cowboy Bebop.

    All of it.

    :: deep breath ::

    Watched the movie last night, and it took me a while to get back used to the faster pace of the episodes tonight. The movie, as it tuned out, needed to come before the last three episodes (one standalone, and the 2-parter), not […]

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  • Pip’s Big Day

    My friend Tyler Bowers entered his friend’s Jack Russell Terrier, Pip, in this year’s Gold Cup race. Then, he made a short film about it. Watch this excellent movie now! [“Pip’s Big Day” is offline —Ed. 2015-08-22]

  • A Mighty Wind

    The Haiku Review?:

    A mighty wind blows.

    Magic can come. Be goofy.

    Improvise by ear.

    PG-13 :: 2003 :: dir. Christopher Guest :: 4 stars

    Starring Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, Michael Baser, Ed Begley Jr., Marty Belafsky, David Blasucci, Jennifer Coolidge, Mary Gross, Laura Harris, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Matthew Joy, Todd Lieberman, Stuart Luce, Jane Lynch, Larry Miller, Jim Moret, Christopher Moynihan, William S. Nunziata, Catherine O’Hara, Jim Piddock, Parker Posey, Ryan Raddatz, Harry Shearer, Freda Foh Shen, Jared Nelson Smith, Deborah Theaker and Fred Willard, who I always think is that guy who used to be on WKRP in Cincinatti, but people keep telling me he isn’t.

  • Boogie Nights

    The Haiku Review™:

    Behind the Penis!

    More sexy? Impossible.

    It’s a long way down.

    R :: 1997 :: dir. Paul Thomas Anderson :: 3 stars

    Starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy and everyone’s favorite porn editor, Ricky Jay.

    DVD features color bars, director and cast commentaries, and a handy list of all the groovy songs in the film.

  • Double Jeopardy

    The Haiku Review™:

    Tommy Lee again,

    Chases the innocent perp.

    Again. Yet again.

    R :: 1999 :: dir. Bruce Beresford :: 3 stars

    Starring a non-nonsense Tommy Lee Jones trying to do the right thing, a wronfully accused Ashley Judd and a really entertaining bastard of a Bruce Greenwood. Oh, and no Alex Trebek.

    DVD features… umm… I forgot.

  • À la folie… pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not)

    The Haiku Review?:

    She says he loves her.

    What’s his side of the story?

    Hearts are for crushing.

    NR :: 2002 :: dir. Laetitia Colombani :: 4 stars

    Starring "that chick from Amélie" Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré and Clément Sibony.

Mark Boszko

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