The year of 2004 brought us many things cinematically. We were treated to two films (The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11) that brought enormous controversy with them for different reasons, yet both ended up making huge money at the box office. Documentaries took an even bigger jump towards becoming accepted by the mainstream media.
Kevin Bacon caught my attention not in Footloose but in a small role in JFK. He played a gay convict. In The Woodsman, he plays a paroled molester of young girls. After serving a dozen years in prison, he is free, but to what??? He lives in a cheap apartment, right across from a school yard. His only friend is brother-in-law Benjamin Bratt.
Ever since before he could remember, Walden Robert Cassato (William Ulrich) has wanted to be an entertainer the likes of which the world has never seen. He's wanted to be bigger than Sinatra and sell out show after show at the world famous Copacabana, better known to those in the biz as "The Copa".
Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra Natchios, the character she played in 2003's Daredevil. Elektra has closed herself off from the outside world and works as a lethal assassin sent out by the highest bidder.
Writer-director Paul Weitz brought us 2002's critically acclaimed comedy, About a Boy, which became an instant comedy classic.
Review: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Posted by: Dean Kish • December 25, 2004 @ 11:59am
Wes Anderson has always been a little weird. His films are always off the wall and come from a place we would least expect.
Take 1998's Rushmore, which saw Anderson's first team-up with comedian Bill Murray.
Probably one of the most unsung actors working in Hollywood today is Don Cheadle.
The phenomenon that is the musical "The Phantom of the Opera" is something not a lot of people understand. But the select few who used to crank the CD of the music and play air-guitar to the guitar riffs throughout the musical's title theme know what I am talking about.
Gay Focker, Randy Focker, Dom Focker, and I believe I heard "Orny" Focker. We should get those out of the way up front. You knew Meet the Fockers would have several jokes regarding the family name of Ben Stiller's character.
I did not expect to enjoy the movie as much as i did.
Some jokes, regardless of how shallow they may appear, do not seem to get old. The fact that Ben Stiller's name in Meet the Fockers, the sequel to Meet the Parents, is Gaylord Focker is one such joke.
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