Take The City And Run

1. Buffalo ‘66
2. The Celebration
3. Life Is Beautiful
4. Happiness
5. Out Of Sight
6. Babe: Pig In The City
7. American History X
8. The Thin Red Line
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Pi

The New York Observer’s Niall Stanage explores speculation, based largely on recent public statements by the Mayor, that Bloomberg may be considering an independent run at the Presidency in 2008. The reasoning seems to be that the Mayor wouldn’t be making statements on hot national issues if he didn’t have plans for higher office. Or […]

Directed by Tex Avery
Screwball Squirrel is basically an MGM Bugs Bunny clone, and it shows in this, his first appearance, in which he torments Meathead the dog, who he goads into chasing him. But as derivative as it is, there really are some interesting things done in terms of poking fun at the whole cartoon […]

Directed by Will Jason
Not a lot to this. Star/writer Robert Benchley is decent enough, but there’s not much in the way of payoff here.
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Directed by Richard Thorpe
This is the first Thin Man picture that neither W.S. Van Dyke nor Dashiell Hammett had any part in creating, and this fifth installment in the series suffers for it, but, even after eleven years, William Powell and Myrna Loy still have chemistry as Nick and Nora Charles. And their chemistry goes […]

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Toy Story 2
3. Magnolia
4. Fight Club
5. Run Lola Run
6. Mr. Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
7. Being John Malkovich [Film Log]
8. Election
9. Last Night
10. The Straight Story

Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Eva: A mother and a daughter — what a terrible combination of feelings and confusion and destruction. Everything is possible and is done in the name of love and solitude. The mother’s injuries are to be paid for by the daughter. The mother’s failures are to be paid for by the daughter. […]

Directed by Davis Gugenheim
Al Gore: Our ability to live is at stake.
Slideshow: The Movie! Really, though, it’s pretty good as a portrait of a man giving voice to his passion. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s groundbreaking in terms of style or content, but it makes good points and explains global warming […]

Directed by Brett Ratner
Professor X: You of all people know how fast the weather can change.
Well, it’s not terrible, but it certainly doesn’t stand up next to the previous films. The problem, which is surely the result of Bryan Singer’s absence, is a certain lack of imagination that permeated the first two, making them vital […]

1. Five Feet High And Rising
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Requiem For A Dream
4. You Can Count On Me
5. Dancer In The Dark
6. The Filth And The Fury
7. American Psycho
8. Best In Show
9. Rejected
10. X-Men

There’s a good article in New York Magazine about Al Gore and his possible political future basically stemming off of the hype for An Inconvenient Truth. After I first saw the trailer for the movie, the first thing out of my mouth was, “He’s running for President again.” And since then, my thought has basically […]

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Amelie
3. Memento
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Monster’s Ball
6. Amores Perros
7. Donnie Darko
8. In The Mood For Love
9. Gosford Park
10. Moulin Rouge