The Boss Of It All Danish Satire Deconstructs Office Humor For Devilish Fun Danish director Lars von Trier is something of a prankster. Although best known for drafting the “back to basics” film ethos Dogme ’95 [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 02, 2007 Read More “It’s settled. You give me the deed to your house
Video Nasty Hard Boiled Back in the day, the No. 1 source in town for Psychotronic movie rentals was a little shop on Lead called Wavy Brain—which [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Jul 26, 2007 Read More
Rescue Dawn Werner Herzog Puts His Actors Through Hell, With Heavenly Results As a filmmaker, Werner Herzog is noted for his attraction to epic stories of men and their single-minded (some might say obsessive ) [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 26, 2007 Read More “Look
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Fifth Time’s The Same Old Charm For Our Young Wizard There isn't much point, at this stage of the game, to reviewing anything Harry Potter-related. The books have a more avid fanbase than [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 19, 2007 Read More “I’ve got a headache this big
Hairspray We’ve Heard This Song Before, But It’s Got A Good Beat And You Can Definitely Dance To It Why? It’s a valid question. Or questions , actually. Why is Hollywood so obsessed with remakes? Mostly because it requires very little thought [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 19, 2007 Read More “Get a stepstool
Fay Grim When Is A Sequel Not A Sequel? A good 10 years after his indie hit Henry Fool hit indie theaters, non-Hollywood darling Hal Hartley has re-recruited the cast of what [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 12, 2007 Read More “Seriously
Paprika Dream Noir Mystery Offers Eye-Opening Anime A lot of Americans (not all of them, but a lot of them) still have hang-ups about comic books and cartoons. “They’re for [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 05, 2007 Read More Whoa. Trippy.
Transformers Shut Off Your Brain’s Switch And Stomp On Your Adrenaline Pedal, We Got Giant Robots! Most folks (mostly male, mostly in their 30s) will remember the Transformers as a massively popular toy line put out by Hasbro in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 05, 2007 Read More “I am Iron Man! ... No
Ratatouille It’s A Vegetable Stew Made Primarily With Eggplant, Tomatoes And Zucchini--Now Go See The Movie! Odds are, if and when you go to the theater to see Ratatouille, the new film from Pixar Animation Studios, you’ll first be [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 28, 2007 Read More Hopefully the rat washed his hands before touching the food
1408 $1.99 Local Phone Calls? Now That’s Scary. Not a lot of people are familiar with S.B. 619, a bill rushed through the California state legislature in the early ’80s and [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 21, 2007 Read More Check out John’s “I’m going crazy” face.
