December 3rd, 2005
Ghost in the Shell 2 suffers much the same fate. Call it the Wachowski Effect; the original was (while still pretty confusing on first viewing) smaller, neater, tighter and cooler.
December 26th, 2008
But where every frame is beautiful, they’re not perfect to the extent they were in Zodiac — still Fincher’s Citizen Kane. It’s a genuine pleasure to see a movie with nice colours, soft edges and a slow-burn sensibility in the camerawork and cinematography.
July 27th, 2006
The average politician has more character and charisma in a single toe than the woefully soulless Dillon can muster, and Douglas finally looks his age, a creepy sixty-year-old you wouldn’t let near your young teenage sister or daughter.
November 4th, 2003
You probably think Cabin Fever is another movie rushed into production at a big Hollywood studio to cash in on the resurgence in popularity (and bankability) of horror films right now.
October 7th, 2004
Realising how awful Showgirls was, the distributor started screening it at midnight screenings alongside other schlock classics like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
June 15th, 2007
An exercise in pure plotting, it’s a classic heist movie. It tells a large story economically by showing us what we need to see and arranging the elements of the story according to where they fall, where they lie in relation to each other, and their causes and effects.