In 2003, House of 1000 Corpses, Rob Zombie’s homage to drugged-out 1970s horror movies, was released to theaters. Meeting a mixture of misunderstanding and plain old bad reviews, the movie didn’t set the box office on fire but it did make enough money to warrant a sequel. 2005’s The Devil’sContinue Reading
Comic book writer Frank Miller had such a bad experience with Hollywood in 1990 when producers butchered his script for RoboCop 2 that he swore he’d never work with movies again. However, Robert Rodriguez did a short film based on one of Miller’s “Sin City” stories that so impressed MillerContinue Reading
When two Irish brothers, Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murph (Norman Reedus), have a run-in with some Russian mobsters, they begin an unwitting career of vigilantism that makes the Boston Mafia quake in their shoes. Willem Dafoe steals the show as he plays openly gay FBI agent Paul Smecker, whoContinue Reading
Intermission is a low-budget Irish film that was released in U.S. theaters during the spring of 2004. It follows the repercussions of the break-up of John (Cillian Murphy) and Dierdre (Kelly Macdonald) as they pass into eleven different story-lines. John feels that he’s made a horrible mistake by telling DierdreContinue Reading
“If it’s not one thing, it’s another!” exclaims Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) as he and his partner, K. C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), pursue a suspect in one of those high-speed car chases that seem to be the only way Hollywood can bring a film to climax anymore. That line perfectlyContinue Reading
Delayed from its original February release date, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 continues the story from (surprise!) Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which was released last November. That story, of course, concerns the unnamed bride (Uma Thurman) who was left for dead at the hands of Bill (David Carradine) and a team of assassins followingContinue Reading
Trying to describe the plot of a movie as off-the-wall as The Triplets of Belleville serves only to make it sound mundane and pretty unappealing. However, this is a film that is anything but mundane. Visually, this is the most interesting movie I’ve seen in years. Bear with this plotContinue Reading