Have you ever felt like an urban zombie?
You wake up, give a giant yawn, scratch yourself, and stumble into the kitchen seeking your first cup of java. Then, even more like a zombie, you drop into your regular Monday to Friday routine.
Well, this has happened to Shaun (Simon Pegg), a TV salesman who seems to watch life walk by.
As has become a bad habit in the film industry, The Forgotten is a film that has an interesting storyline that is completely given away in the trailer. Seriously, if you have seen the trailer, there is EXTREMELY little that comes as a surprise in the film itself.
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that shocks me. Sometimes this can be a good thing and other times it can be a bad thing. In the case of the new feature film from acclaimed director John Waters, A Dirty Shame, I was left not knowing what to think.
It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since I wrote my introduction to last year's Vancouver International Film Festival. In fact, this year's festival -- which runs September 23rd through October 8th at the same four venues -- opens just two days shy of a complete calender year.
For a great romantic comedy to work, you have to have four basic film elements work for you. One is that you need a story that encompasses the couple and eventually brings them together. The second is that you need one of your primary characters to be unlucky in love or have given up on love.
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Posted by: Dean Kish • September 17, 2004 @ 11:59am
During the age of the motion picture serial, people of all ages would flock to cinemas to catch the next chapter of their favorite hero's latest adventure. Their admiration went to epic pulp heroes like "Tarzan", "Flash Gordon", "Buck Rogers", "Commander Cody", and of course "The Masked Marvel".
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Posted by: Tom Milroy • September 17, 2004 @ 11:59am
Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow would have been better with an interesting script. It could have been better with a more engaging cast. Considering all the money spent on making it, it should have been better.
This is one of the few movies of late that I've really been looking forward to seeing.
When last we left Alice (Milla Jovovich), she had just emerged from the underground layer of the Umbrella Corporation but was separated from fellow survivor Matt (Eric Mabius).
The last thing Alice remembers is that she had made it out of the hospital and into the remnants of Raccoon City, which looked like a war zone.
Okay, all of us are driven insane by the amount of cellular phones that are in our society today. From that guy who is constantly on the phone while driving to the mother who is screaming into her phone as she walks down the grocery store aisle, people just don't realize how much they use their phones and how much they disturb people around them.
Don't you just hate it when movies take too long to get going?? It can be really frustrating, especially when you've seen the trailer a hundred times, so you pretty much get the gist of the story.
Cellular gets going right away. Everyone knows Kim Basinger's character is going to get kidnapped, as is her son. This happens minutes into the movie, and that's good.
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