The Alamo has always been as one of the most classic legends of American history. The Alamo symbolized an epic struggle, desperate realization of horror, and the legendary men who fell to an onslaught of Mexican soldiers numbering in the thousands.
They say you can't go home again, but that's just what Chris Vaughn (The Rock) wants to do. After an 8-year stint in the army, Chris has decided to head home to the small mountain town he grew up in and start work at the local mill. Upon his return, he finds that the mill has been shut down by his old friend who took over ownership when his parents passed away.
Back in 1973, the true story of a Southern sheriff named Buford Pusser â€" played by Joe Don Baker â€" who battled the odds with his pickup truck and a hunk of wood made audiences stand up and cheer.
Comic writer and creator Mike Mignola has always had a flair for the dark, mysterious, and heavily moody. His artistic style renders his creations and drawings often in heavy black backgrounds where only portions of their faces are seen. Mignola's art style was always more about the words than the pictures when creating a comic.
Lars Von Trier's last film, Dancer in the Dark, starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve was THE film studies movie of the year. I'll bet there wasn't a film program in the world that didn't show this film in at least one class. Will Dogville live up to this? Well, in my first class EVER at Carleton University, I was talking about it with a fellow classmate.
Marva Munson (Irma P.Hall) is a simple woman living in the deep South somewhere along the Bible belt. A widow, she lives at home with her cat Pickles and regularly attends church services on Sunday with a group of her friends. Being a widow and living in a rather large house, she rents a room out to supplement her income and for some human companionship.
The subgenre that is grifter noir features unsavoury characters like kingpins, loan sharks, petty thieves, cops on the take, and others. They are absolutely delightful to watch, especially when the story is done right: full of twists and turns.
Gary Yates should be a proud man. He did it spot-on right. Kevin Pollak is Harlen, an older con man who is losing his touch.
There are staples of a genre and then there are the immortals. George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is still one of the greatest horror films of all time. It still holds its own and scares the pants off you with each viewing. It is eternal.
Ten years after that classic, Romero awakened our fears once more with Dawn of the Dead.
Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Posted by: Mark McLeod • March 19, 2004 @ 11:59am
Focus Features is a relatively young distributor and is the art-house division of Universal Pictures. In their short existence, they have distributed an amazingly high number of excellent motion pictures. In the last year alone they were the studio behind multiple Oscar nominee Lost in Translation and the film that ended up as my favorite of 2003, 21 Grams.
Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Posted by: Dean Kish • March 19, 2004 @ 11:59am
It's been almost 2 years since we have had a glimpse at the upside-down world of script-crafter Charlie Kaufman. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter has delivered such head scratching films as Human Nature, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation.
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