Here was the ten-word pitch to the movie studio for this film: handsome actors in Big Sur house hug, snort and die. And that pretty much tells the story in a nutshell
Ambition sometimes has its limits. I'm not even sure what that means, really, but in this case it seems to apply. Jonathan Demme, who has directed popular some pretty
I'm not sure why it is every movie I see these days has Ryan Gosling in it. First there was Drive. Then The Ides of March. And now this thing -- which I saw on a plane
It's clear right out of the gate that this ain't going to be your typical, slick Hollywood shoot 'em up. The bizarre 'Hanna' graphic used in the title sequence alone
There is only so much "Euro" Americans will put up with in their motion pictures. And this thing has it in spades. Not only in its waaaay foreign filming locations but
There are a bunch of these movies out there that are vehicles for aging actors to do some acting. Even decent actors like Michael Douglas, who is at his best in parts
All I seem to see these days are Ryan Gosling movies. Maybe it's his cut abs. Maybe it's coincidence. Or maybe he's 2011's Zach Galifianakis or Philip Seymour Hoffman
There are so many what-the-fuck moments in this movie it's almost impossible to count. Not since, I don't know, Pulp Fiction, have I been so mesmerized by the bizarreness
It is super-easy to fuck up when translating a Philip K. Dick book into a movie. I mean a lot of his stuff is kind of tailor-made (with some tweaks) for the big screen
Hillbillies are funny. They’re all “kin this” and “kin that” and they all have skinny dogs chained to their sheds and cook meth and have like 27 kids and domestic pick-up
I’m still a little puzzled by the love showered upon Polanski from those in the Hollywood establishment. Even those actors who are so PC about other things seem to excuse
Having seen this film and Scott Pilgrim right around the same time, I couldn't help but come away from this one disappointed. This plot makes Scott Pilgrim look like
I know I'm amazingly inconsistent with what I like and what I don't like in my movies. Sometimes I'll nitpick a plot -- or even one single plot point -- to death and
What is art anyway? And how and where do art and commerce intersect? I suppose these are the central questions in this mockumentary / social critique. The problem is, of
Second rate schlock. I know it's almost not fair saying this about a film created by one of our best living directors, but in this case I gotta call a spade a spade. It's
As a father, one is obligated to occasionally go to the theater to see children's movies. The ironic thing is that it often becomes the only time that I get to go to the
There's this certain genre of blue collar caper movie that's out there that makes perfect sense in the pantheon of both tough guy character and caper movies as a whole
I feel for Dwayne Johnson, I really do. Poor guy is locked into some sort of crazy Disney contract that forces him into these wacky family movies and undoubtedly pays