What if it was possible to selectively erase memories from your mind? In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest work by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, a company named Lacuna, Inc. has developed a process that will do just that. Joel (Jim Carrey) has discovered that his impulsive girlfriend ClementineContinue Reading
It’s early in the year and that means mainstream theaters become a wasteland of bad comedies, B-grade action movies and the occasional Z-grade horror film. Along Came Polly, when judged from the trailer, looked to provide some welcome relief from the normal scheme of things by teaming Ben Stiller andContinue Reading
Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are young, beautiful and not very good actors. (Well, at least in what I’ve seen them in.) With that in mind, my hopes for Just Married weren’t very high. After a promising beginning, the movie lived up to my low expectations. Tom (Kutcher) and Sarah (Murphy) haveContinue Reading
Zora (Sanaa Lathan) is a singer with big dreams. During the day, she works as a music teacher. When she moves into a brownstone apartment, she meets Franklin (Wesley Snipes), a worker doing renovation on the building. They strike up a quick friendship that eventually blossoms into romance. Franklin hasContinue Reading
The key to making an on-screen romance believable is developing chemistry between the pair of actors that are supposed to be attracted to one another. Cold Mountain, the new big-budget historical romance from director Anthony Minghella, fails to set-up any attraction at all between its principal actors and ends upContinue Reading
If you’ve been anticipating Punch-Drunk Love as the latest in Adam Sandler’s long line of dumb comedies, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. If, and this is a big if, you’ve been waiting for Adam Sandler to prove he’s got acting chops, you’re in luck. Paul Thomas Anderson, writer andContinue Reading
Vampire movies have always walked that fine line that Spinal Tap mentioned. You know, that fine line between clever and stupid. Stupid usually translates into big box office, ala Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Interview with a Vampire. Clever translates into obscurity, ala Near Dark or Fright Night. No vampire filmContinue Reading