Tag: reviews
member name: Racheline Maltese
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December 22, 2006 10:09 PM EST --
Pan’s Labyrinth is a fantastic Spanish language film about a child growing up in the midst of war that I fear won’t do well due to a misleading and inaccurate marketing campaign. I went . . .
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November 12, 2006 11:50 PM EST --
This is the best movie I've seen thus far this year. It may be the best movie I've seen in several years. It's that good, and Emilio Estevez directed it -- who knew?
It's not a biopic . . .
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December 17, 2006 03:39 PM EST --
Miss Potter, the new film starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, tells the story of the fabulous famous children's book author, Beatrix Potter. Potter's books, first published about . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:55 AM EST --
Dreamgirls was one of the first Broadway shows I saw as a young child, and the film, like the show, has left me with much the same response – incredible singers and an excellent story that becomes . . .
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January 06, 2007 03:47 PM EST --
Children of Men is both a stunning tehcnical and storytelling achievement. Even so, it is likely to leave American audiences, who have certain expectations when it comes to film style and trajectory . . .
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January 13, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
Perfume is one of those films I desperately wanted to work, but ultimately, no matter how I tried to fit its pieces together in my head could not make a coherent peace with.
Perfume is the story of a . . .
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February 04, 2007 07:50 PM EST --
Freedom Writers is yet another one of those movies in which a school teacher faced with kids who are both under-privileged and under-achieving finds a way to make a difference in their lives, and like . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:40 PM EST --
The Good Shepherd is an exceptionally well-constructed, written and acted film that ultimately holds more allure in the parts of its story it chooses not to tell rather than those that it does. So . . .
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December 28, 2006 12:23 PM EST --
New Year’s Eve in New York City can easily be expensive and/or annoying. From crowds of tourists who can’t handle their booze to exhoribdant cover charges and the new hassle of post 9/11 security . . .
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April 14, 2007 09:25 PM EDT --
Despite being extremely into politics and news, I’m not a big reader of political books, generally preferring my non-fiction to be historical in nature. That said, I’ve been reading former . . .
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December 21, 2006 10:04 PM EST --
The experience of watching Notes on a Scandal is, I imagine, not unlike learning exactly how a serial killer operates, even if none of the film’s characters die. In fact, although it’s . . .
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January 14, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
After being gravely disappointed with Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima was not a film I was looking forward to seeing. It is, however, an astounding and deeply subtle film that I am concerned . . .
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October 04, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Sleuth, starring Jude Law and Michael Caine, is a remake of the 1972 original that also starred Caine (back then in the younger man’s role). Here with a screenplay by Harold Pinter and directed . . .
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November 10, 2006 07:09 PM EST --
Today I saw an advance preview of Breaking and Entering (It will be released limited in December, with national release in January). It was very well done certainly, and its themes are Minghella's . . .
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October 10, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which picks up where 1998’s Elizabeth left off, brings us the expected stellar performances, astounding costumes and a refinement of director Shekhar Kapur’s tantalizing . . .
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August 25, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
Despite my doubts back in April when I asked if cyberpunk is still relevant, I was curious to see where James R. Strickland’s Looking Glass would leave me. . . .
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December 06, 2006 02:26 AM EST --
Blood Diamond, the new film from Edward Zwick (Glory and The Last Samurai) is an ambitious film that occasionally teeters but never topples under the weight of its subject. Focusing on fictional . . .
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August 27, 2007 12:18 AM EDT --
What does speculative fiction look like in a fantastical world?
It’s a problematic question, one that raises issues both of perspective (after all, . . .
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August 27, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
Please join us today, August 28th at 7pm to discuss Quantico live with best-selling author Greg Bear. If you can't make it this evening, post a question below in advance and check back in for . . .
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December 16, 2006 03:28 PM EST --
A Taste for Opulence: Sevres Porcelain from the Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases works from the Sevres porcelain factory from the 18th Century. A small exhibition of porcelain . . .
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