The Haiku Review�: Touch too much screwball, Cast makes me laugh and then think, De Palma redeemed. :: 1990 :: dir. Brian De Palma :: Starring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Kim Catrall, Morgan Freeman, Saul Rubinek, a “Reverend” character who is obviously based on Al “I’m runnin’ for President!” Sharpton, and a very convincingly drunk …
Now, I’m a die-hard James Bond fan, but I hate-hate-hated the last Bond outing. Denise Richards as a rocket scientist? I mean, c’mon� I can only suspend my disbelief so far. This Bond film, on the other hand, is a real keeper. Bond starts out with a slick diamonds-for-arms deal, and then a frantic chase …
Last night, Joel and I went to see Star Wars: Episode II at the IMAX theatre in the Museum of Natural History. Lucas apparently thought it might be a good idea to chop out a whole bunch of the movie, and blow it up onto a huge 7-story screen. The results are, I think, mixed. …
Wow, director Chris Columbus, screenwriter Steven Kloves and composer William Ross really knocked another one out of the park with this one! Er� or, rather� not. And who the hell is William Ross? All I can say is, it’s probably a good way to kill your composing career to take on a well-liked previous score …
I first saw this film in the theatre, but I wanted to revisit it recently because of my growing interest in Buddhism. Jesse is a young boy in Seattle, the son of Bridget Fonda and Chris Isaak, and is thought to be the possible reincarnation of a Buddhist monk who died several years previous, and …
I hate to admit it, but I’m a sucker for films about� well� white men having adventures in faraway lands. That, of course, includes films like the Indiana Jones series, but also movies like Mountains of the Moon and The Ghost and the Darkness. It’s not that I so much like to see white guys …
Do yourself a favor. Go watch the trailer, think to yourself, “Wow, that looks like it might be a great film,” and leave it at that. I’ve never been a huge Brian De Palma fan, and I should have remembered that when I went to see this film. I kept thinking that it might be …
