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
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
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
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is one of cinema’s most appealing villains. Most remember his first on-screen appearance as being in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins in the role. However, that’s not correct. The first person to play Hannibal Lecter was Brian Cox. The movie in which heContinue Reading
Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) is embarrassed by his father. Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) has to be the center of attention at all times. Even at his son’s wedding, Ed Bloom has a crowd around him as he again tells the story of how he caught the “biggest fish in theContinue Reading
From the bow of the British Navy’s HMS Surprise, the watchman catches a glimpse of something up ahead in the fogbank. He’s not sure what it is, but he’s sure he saw something. Just as quickly as it was there, it’s gone again. He hesitates, but the call to quartersContinue Reading
One of the great things about movie-going is that you will occasionally see an actor or actress in a performance that you know is going to change their career. Sometimes you see a film that provides that career-making role for two people. Rarely, though, do you see a film thatContinue Reading