The Memory Of A Killer Bullet-Riddled Belgian Thriller Gives American Crime A Run For Its Money America all but invented the crime film back in the '30s and '40s--blame Warner Brothers and James Cagney for its universal appeal. The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 29, 2005 Read More That is one dead window.
Pretty Persuasion Rancid High School Satire Can'T Seem To Figure Out Who It Hates Director Marcos Siega has your typical Hollywood resume: He directed a bunch of music videos (Blink 182, 311, Weezer), cranked out a couple [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 29, 2005 Read More “... You have toilet paper on your shoe.”
Touch The Sound Mesmerizing Documentary Picks Up The Rhythm Of Life In 2001, German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer created the closest thing to a cult sensation on the art house circuit when he wrote, edited, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 22, 2005 Read More “Knock
Tim Burton'S Corpse Bride Animated Musical Weaves Delightfully Dark Spell Teenage Goth girls, feel free to rejoice. There's finally something new to buy at Hot Topic. Tim Burton, high priest of all that [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 22, 2005 Read More “What’s the matter? You don’t like ‘Chopsticks’?”
Videonasty Women'S Prison Massacre (1983) When I was but a young lad, I had the good fortune to see The Big Bird Cage at a friend's house. Written [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Sep 15, 2005 Read More
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose Laura Linney Is “Perry Mason: Paranormal Litigator” After a summer of stultifyingly formulaic films, it rests on the shoulders of the fall movie season to provide some relief. To give [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 08, 2005 Read More “We’d like to plead not guilty by reason of Christianity.”
A State Of Mind Eye-Opening Look Behind The Bamboo Curtain Shows North Koreans Just Want To Dance, Dance, Dance According to President George W. Bush, North Korea is a founding member of the Axis of Evil. Aside from that rather broadly unhelpful [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 08, 2005 Read More “Take that you capitalist pigs!”
Junebug Southern-Fried Drama Mixes Sweet And Sour For A Refreshing Change Of Pace A hit on the film fest circuit (multiple award nominee at Sundance) and a sleeper in theaters, Junebug is just the sort of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 01, 2005 Read More “I just love a touch of the great outdoors in the comfort of my own basement.”
Never Been Thawed Satyrical Sub-Indie Comedy Finds The Funny In Frozen Food Shooting like a rocket out of that red-hot mecca of filmmaking, Tempe, Ariz., comes writer/director Sean Anders' subculture-skewering mockumentary Never Been Thawed. Not [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 01, 2005 Read More “All we are saying ... is give peas a chance.”
Crónicas Network Meets Silence Of The Lambs In Offbeat Import. In his first Spanish-language film, American comedian/actor John Leguizamo plays an oily news reporter working for a Latin tabloid TV show in Miami. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 01, 2005 Read More
