March 1st, 2003
An up and coming Hollywood screenwriter (Carrey) finds himself blacklisted by the McCarthyist commie witch hunts that permeated Hollywood in the 1950s. He crashes his car, loses his memory, and is mistaken for the war hero son of an atypical Capra town.
September 1st, 2003
Whether you're a left wing liberal or not, both these films are essential viewing as they're part of a grave necessity nowadays — opposing voices to the accepted consensus (read; Western) of history.
October 1st, 2003
What made M Night Shyamalan's Signs so fascinating was that a serious director was taking one of the most camp film genres from history (the …
January 16th, 2003
While it's not a bad movie by any means, the words ‘Director’, ‘Steven’ and ‘Spielberg’ on any project generate a unique kind of excitement. A reputation precedes a Spielberg-directed film that his work over recent years (and increasingly often) hasn't lived up to.
August 23rd, 2007
Yes, conflict is the basis for all drama, but there's almost a dramatic subgenre of films depicting people living through the worst possible abuse or circumstances that attract critical kudos almost by default.
September 1st, 2008
Like Chainsaw, plenty will be disgusted by such a nihilistic movie (take a bow, Funny Games), but as Oscar Wilde said, art is neither good nor evil, just well or badly made.
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