Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) hates his life. He hates his job as a writer for an advertising magazine. He’s grown apart from his family. His wife (Annette Bening), a real estate saleswoman, is “joyless” and his teenage daughter (Thora Birch) resents him. The highlight of his day is masturbating inContinue Reading
War movies have a tendency to either glorify violence in the name of a certain cause or to over-emotionalize about a certain cause. Finding a perfect balance between the two is a definite challenge for a filmmaker. With Three Kings, writer/director David O. Russell (along with co-writer John Ridley, whoContinue Reading
Finally, a horror film without the unnecessary addition of 14,000 CGI effects, buckets of blood and a bevy of stupid, half-naked teenagers. The Blair Witch Project is a testament to what makes a film truly scary: your runaway imagination trying to cope with the unseen evils in the dark. TheContinue Reading
Before I start my review, let me first say that anyone who doesn’t “get” the South Park TV series will not “get” this movie. These are usually the people that classify South Park as mean-spirited, offensive, and too raunchy for kids. The reason those people don’t “get” the humor inContinue Reading
Matthew Broderick played the unforgettable Ferris Bueller in 1986. Bueller was the student that thought the world was his stage and those around him were merely tools to use in the advancement of himself. In 1999, Broderick plays Jim McAllister a teacher who comes face-to-face with someone almost as manipulativeContinue Reading
What if you realized that everything in your life had been carefully selected and molded by a TV producer for a show about your life? That’s what happens to Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show. Burbank has a relatively comfortable life as an insurance salesman. He’s married toContinue Reading
Roberto Benigni co-wrote, directed and stars in this comedy-drama about the horrors of World War II. It’s an unusual film that begins as a light-hearted romantic comedy and ends with a descent into the hell of WWII labor camps. The film begins with Guido Orefice (Benigni) and his friend arrvingContinue Reading