“Fay Grim” is the sequel to Hal Hartley’s 1998 Cannes award winning film, “Henry Fool”, and this time around, we are back in the hot seat again with Parker Posey playing Fool’s wife (she now took back her maiden name) and is embroiled in international intrigue and espionage. Let me explain why. Well, Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan) is an enigamatic terrorist who once spun tales of his adventures to his young son. The young boy thought them to be mere fantasies to lull him to sleep, but Henry was actually revealing his true exploits and duplicities around the globe.…
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If ever a pirate approached me and offered me the chance to join a pirate crew, to travel choppy waters and cross steel with aquatic abominations I would probably eat that pirate’s liver. No I would never want to be a pirate! Some people asked me how I could be so shallow, especially if I have never tried such an adventurous career! I respond, by inviting them to sit down with me and watch Pirates 3. By the end of the movie, they are not only convinced to abandon their pursuit of the high seas, but are content on joining…
People are afraid of death and its mysteries have always been a difficult to explain; most of the time, people don’t even want to talk about it. In the new release “The Invisible”, director David S. Goyer opens a new door to a different vision about what the moments approaching death could tell us. Those last moments where we are aware of our surroundings—and the moments after; when the separation between soul and body seems inevitable. This is also what seems to happen when a human being falls into a coma. The body remains still, but the mind and soul…
I went with a friend to see Shrek the Third, and there was this group of people that just would not stay quiet. They were so obnoxiously loud that I thought I was going to have to tell them something. Their laughter sounded like the shrill of million harpies, and their comments would make a monk lose his oath of silence. I exchanged glances of worry with my friend, in fear that the whole movie was about to be ruined by these adults (yes the kids were all quiet and well behaved). This, thankfully, was not an issue. The movie…
The agony of knowing what rests ahead, the fear that the wrong step is not so far away and neither is perdition. Black Book takes place in 1956 during the end of World War II and it brings to life the tragic and almost Shakespearean situation of a Dutch Jewish girl Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten). It all commences when Rachel receives a visit from an old friend and thus after her departure she retreats to a lake near by where she remembers a time when warfare shattered her and almost took life away from her. It is now 1944…
The recently released film by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, serves as their second installment of an apparent series of comedic parodies following their wildly popular zombie-horror flick Shaun of the Dead. Being an avid fan of Shaun of the Dead myself, I found Hot Fuzz to be just as comically satisfying as their previous endeavor. It focuses on presenting the action-packed adrenaline rush that is ubiquitous in most action films. More precisely, the film shines during its unrealistically epic gun-fight sequences—it’s ending in particular. Being a film focused on presenting intense visuals, creative elements such as symbolism…
Spider-Man 3 is as stated in the title, the third film of the franchise. The film begins by reacquainting the audience with Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man. This time everything in Spidey’s life is nearly perfect, but leave it up to the villains to turn his life upside down. This film introduces three new villains Sandman, Venom, and a new Green Goblin, who all have one ultimate goal, to get rid of Spider-Man. As the film begins to progress the story becomes at time a mess, there are too many villains, to much plot and too many tears.…
I have just one thing to say: I want a black, alien, “Spidey” suit! If my guess is correct, I will not be the only Spider-Man fan leaving theaters this weekend wishing I was swinging and jumping from rooftops like some rabid ninja. In fact, we are likely to see tensions this Halloween between these “alien spider beings” and those lovable pirates, which we are so used to seeing at the ever popular, “Pirate” parties. Soon enough, we will be going to “Spider-Man” parties, and all of us guys will finally get a stab at that Mary Jane Watson character!…
Based loosely and influenced by the 1987 Norwegian film “Ofelas” (Pathfinder) by Director Nils Gaup, “Ofelas” (which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film) told the tale of a young boy who witnessed the slaughter of his family around 1000 AD, in Northern Scandinavia, and sought vengeance upon his family’s murderers. He is eventually held captive by this warlike tribe and forced him to lead them to the others. The boy plots to destroy them before they even reach the other camp. Similar to the 1987 film, music video director, Marcus Nispel (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) directs the 2007,…
First time director, Stephen J. Anderson brings wonderfully to life the adaptation of William Joyce’s 1993 children’s story, A Day With Wilbur Robinson. Backed by Disney magic, the story unfolds with young Lewis (voiced by Jordan Fry, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), a little boy visionary who was delivered to a doorstep of an orphanage as a baby. During a horrible rainstorm, Lewis’ mother made the decision to give up her child. Found by Mildred who runs the orphanage (voiced by Angela Bassett), Lewis is taken in and raised by her to hopefully one day have a family all of…