Review: Sin City
Tuesday March 29, 2005
Robert Rodriguez' stylish adaptation of Frank Miller's hardboiled comic book series is a cynical, violent film about murder and decapitation that happens to be beautiful to look at. Benicio Del ... Read More
New DVD Releases: Vera Drake, Closer
Tuesday March 29, 2005
If you missed the Oscar-nominated films of 2004, they are fast making their way to the DVD retailer's shelf. This week's top releases include Mike Leigh's abortionist drama "Vera Drake" ... Read More
"Man Without a Past" Has a Future
Sunday March 27, 2005
Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is planning a sequel to his award-winning "The Man Without a Past," Yahoo News reports. The director of "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" and "The Match Factory ... Read More
Review: The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Friday March 25, 2005
Daniel Day Lewis plays Jack, a dying man with big ideals and an idealistic teenage daughter in Rebecca Miller's third film "The Ballad of Jack And Rose," opening today. Catherine ... Read More
Indie Stars turn to Villiany
Thursday March 24, 2005
Parker Posey, best known for her quirky roles in indie film, has a nice
side-line as the Hollywood villian. She turned to the dark side in such
big budget films as "Josie ... Read More
New DVD Releases: Being Julia, Not on the Lips
Wednesday March 23, 2005
It's a good week for underrated women's roles: Annette Bening didn't win the Oscar for Istvan Szabo's "Being Julia," and Audrey Tautou sings and dances her way through Alain Resnais' ... Read More
Von Trier Does TV
Tuesday March 22, 2005
Provocative Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier is turning his twisted talents to television. The director of "Dogville" and "Dancer in the Dark" is writing an episode for the successful Danish ... Read More
Review: Steamboy
Friday March 18, 2005
Katsuhiro Otomo is back with his first feature-length anime since "Akira." In "Steamboy," bizarre machinery battles for the future of science while a family drama plays out in the skies ... Read More
Review: Melinda and Melinda
Thursday March 17, 2005
The same scenario plays out as comedy and tragedy in Woody Allen's latest film. With Rahda Mitchell, Will Ferrell, Chloe Sevigny, Amanda Peet and Chiewetel Ejifor. "Melinda and Melinda" opens ... Read More
Review: Off the Map
Wednesday March 16, 2005
Campell Scott ("Big Night") directs this pitch-perfect drama about a free-thinking family living in the New Mexico desert--and the tax auditor who comes to stay. Joan Allen, Sam Elliot, and ... Read More
Winterbottom's "9 Songs" to Open in July
Tuesday March 15, 2005
After stirring up controversy at festivals from Cannes to Sundance, Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicit new film "9 Songs" is slated to open in the U.S. in July. Former model Margo ... Read More
Sofia Coppola Shoots "Marie-Antoinette" at Versailles
Monday March 14, 2005
Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola ("Lost In Translation") starts filming scenes of "Marie-Antoinette" today inside the palace of Versailles near Paris. Kirsten Dunst, who worked with Coppola's first film ("The ... Read More
"Bad Education" Too Explicit for Oklahoma City
Saturday March 12, 2005
Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education," starring Gael Garcia Bernal, has been dropped from the schedule at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The official reason for the change was the film's ... Read More
Review: Don't Move
Friday March 11, 2005
Penelope Cruz joins a growing list of gorgeous actresses who go ugly to gain critical acclaim in Sergio Castellitto's "Don't Move." Misogynistic and melodramatic, this preposterously bad tearjerker was a ... Read More
Asia Argento Hits Festival Circuit
Wednesday March 9, 2005
Asia Argento's "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," an adaptation of JT Leroy's novel of the same name, is getting play at film festivals across the country: this weekend ... Read More
New DVD Releases: Dolls, Stage Beauty
Tuesday March 8, 2005
In a departure from his trademark yakuza thrillers, Takeshi Kitanio's fairytale-like "Dolls" tells three interwoven stories about love and desire. Other recommended new DVD releases include "Stage Beauty," starring Claire ... Read More
Review: The Jacket
Thursday March 3, 2005
Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley give compelling performances in John Maybury's bone-chilling, mind-bending romance about an amnesiac soldier who travels through time to prevent his own murder. Read Marcy's ... Read More
Review: Gunner Palace
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Embedded with a Field Artillery unit in Baghdad for two months in 2003, documentary filmmakers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein collected first-hand footage of the lives of American soldiers. The ... Read More