Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Posted by: Dean Kish • April 29, 2005 @ 11:59am
Not familiar with the classic text and hitching a ride of my own, I climbed aboard a train bound for the stars. I guess curiosity had got the best of me since so many of my contemporaries were ecstatic about the classic novel by Douglas Adams. So I just had to see what all the fuss was all about.
Everyday Joe, Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), is having a really bad day.
Okay, there are romantic comedies. I accept that they exist.
Oh how the mighty and brilliant have fallen.
On paper, a political thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, and directed by veteran director Sydney Pollack, seems like a no-brainer.
The film follows Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman), a young woman who was born in the US but raised in the fictional African nation of Motobo, which could be Zimbabwe.
My opinion on interviews is widely known. I enjoy doing them occasionally, but am not the biggest fan of all the work that goes into preparing for them. Often, you have to talk to a publicist and the back and forth starts, trying to find a time that works for everyone involved.
Interview: Samantha Weinstein, Sarah Gadon, & Alex Campbell of Siblings
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 20, 2005 @ 12:00am
One of the smartest and strongest Canadian features to come from the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival was director David Weaver's Siblings, a dark comedy about a group of kids and how they deal with the sudden and tragic death of their parents, which they inadvertently caused.
I am not sure how many of you know about a British director named Michael Winterbottom (Jude, The Claim, and Code 46).
What would happen if the innocence of a child was all of sudden faced with the responsibility and corruption of more money than he could possibly imagine?
Director Danny Boyle, who also brought us Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, asks that very question when two young brothers, Anthony and Damian, come across a duffel bag full of British pounds.
What happens when you introduce a key device or concept from science-fiction into our universe?
In a small independent film made for a meager $7,000, writer, director, and star Shane Carruth brings forth a film that begins with 4 friends working away in a friend's garage as they try to put their minds together on a project that could save all their financial woes.
Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is falling desperately into a trap of mid-life crisis where her successful theatre career and her marriage to the powerful director Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons) are aiding a developing void, and she is plummeting on a steady emotional decline.
The Farrelly Brothers have always exceeded in displaying and capitalizing on the absurd.
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