When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
One of the most mature Shyamalan’s movies. Don’t get me wrong, all his movies have weight, but this one is on top of the game for being very well executed…
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist’s gofer. He’s happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle’s wedding. It’s a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. […]
Hollywood’s rules don’t mean much for Kusturica and he stays true to his own style. A wild Balkan comedy in the Arizona? That’s right.
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He’s not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn’t […]
I have a habit not to watch the same movie twice, but for movies like this it should be broken. Having seen it years ago, I should watch it again…
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book ‘The Orchid Thief’.
Nicolas Cage at his best. One of these movies where I forget about the details and what’s going on, because talented director and actors just make every scene a pleasure…
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
I’d call this the Lost Highway V2, and I usually don’t like seeing the same ideas. But, well, Lynch had too many of it in the Lost Highway. Looks like…
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Found this little pearl from one guy’s top 10 recommendations. While it may not be inviting from its topics, it’s one bomb of a movie. The cinematography, the acting, the…
Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin’ Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin’ Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
An exceptionally energetic and hilarious movie that is also a strong drama where you can feel the tension rising until it reaches the culmination. I didn‘t like the ending, but…
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground “fight clubs” forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Lives up to its name. It seems like a cool action thriller at first, then it comes to a funny riot idea, and then it turns out to be more…
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
Just like I want a thriller to be. Mysterious, sharp and stylish. The actors perfectly fulfil their roles and the story is really engaging in this one.
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President’s adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
A great directing and the perfect combo of De Niro and Hoffman makes this stylish and intelligent comedy an entertainment to watch.