Review: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Posted by: Dean Kish • July 30, 2004 @ 11:59am
There are all sorts of buddy-road comedies. There have been many versions of Revenge of the Nerds.
Everything old is new again. That's the motto in Hollywood as the powers that be in the suits would rather take an old idea either in the form of a movie or a comic book or a TV series and remake it for modern audiences. Sometimes these ideas work out well and other times they don't.
In many ways, Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) is your just your typical struggling actor in Los Angeles. Graced with minor success in a TV movie where he played a mentally challenged football player, he's currently doing what every out of work actor does and that's waiting tables. He is generally unhappy with his life and is not sure what exactly he wants to do.
Review: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Posted by: Mark McLeod • July 23, 2004 @ 11:59am
In the world of heavy rock music, there is one band that defines the genre more than any other. From their humble beginnings in the early 80s to the peak of their fame in the mid-90s, there is no denying the musical force that is Metallica.
Akira Kurosawa's visions of feudal Japan were some of the first to show western audiences Japan's history through their eyes. Kurosawa was an amazing director and each frame housed so much passion. His brilliant films like Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai not only had strength of cinematography but of swordsmanship, humor, and detailed characters.
Based on John Irving's best-selling novel "A Widow for One Year", The Door in the Floor is set in East Hampton, New York, a posh and secluded beach community which has become a refuge for children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his stunning wife Marion (Kim Basinger).
Robert Ludlum's super-spy Jason Bourne returns after a two-year hiatus. This new cinematic hybrid of the Ludlum series of novels was a surprise box office hit back in 2002 when Matt Damon became the amnesiac assassin in The Bourne Identity.
The film was such a success that in some ways it changed the face of spy thrillers for modern audiences.
Director Alex Proyas, helmer of such cult favorites as Dark City and The Crow, steps into the Hollywood limelight with his first attempt at a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster.
Will Ferrell seems to have emerged as Hollywood's new king of comedy.
Make no mistake, Anchorman is far from being the perfect movie, but do you know what? It made me laugh, and at just over 90 minutes, it doesn't take up too much of your time.
Will Ferrell is Ron Burgundy, star of the 6-o'clock news at a TV station in San Diego, sometime in the 1970s.
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