Starring:
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Review:
Criterion Director Billy Wilder painted too dark a picture for
1950?s America with this tale of an unethical reporter (a never
better Kirk Douglas) who manipulates the story of a man trapped
inside a cave into national news. Nowadays, the film should be
required in journalism school.
Rating: 4 Stars
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Starring:
Bong Joon-Ho
Review:
Need proof that South Korea is the epicenter of cool Asian
cinema? Look no further than The Host, where a family
battles a huge, contagion-carrying ? fish monster? The film is
hilarious and the action is out-of-control ? simply one of the
greatest monster flicks ever made.
Rating: 3 Stars
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Starring:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Review:
Who knew? Apparently, there are English hipsters out there who
revere trashy big-budget buddy-cop flicks like Lethal
Weapon and Bad Boys. Hot Fuzz is the latest
from the U.K. geek squad behind the cult comedy Shaun of the
Dead: writer/director Edgar Wright, writer/star Simon Pegg,
and demented plus-size sidekick Nick Frost. Together, they parody
cop movies with the […]

Starring:
Billy Gibbons, Patti Smith
Review:
This documentary traces the life of Roky Erickson, a pioneer of
60s psych-rock whose life becomes ruined by smoke, smack and
schizophrenia. It?s a familiar arc, sure, but the clichés
are averted when the focus turns to the cause of his madness: his
bat-shit crazy mother.
Rating: 3 Stars
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Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.
Review:
David Fincher, who directed Se7en, loves his crazies.
But this film doesn?t just tell the story of the serial killer who
plagued 1970s California. Fincher shows how the lives of cops and
journalists were ruined when they got too obsessed with the case.
Witness Robert Downey Jr. as a reporter turned cokehead.
Rating: 3 Stars
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Starring:
Clive Owen, Julianne Moore
Review:
Just in case you’re one of the deprived who let Alfonso Cuaron’s
Children of Men slip by at the multiplex, grab this DVD
and hold on for rock-the-house image and sound. It’s a ride, but
not quite what you expect. This tale of a futuristic dystopia is
the anti-Blade Runner. The focus isn’t in the action […]

Starring:
Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura
Review:
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s latest ode to women-in-peril is
as clever as anything he’s done. Penelope Cruz shines as the
heroine confronted with an abusive husband, the madness of a
patricidal daughter , the death of a senile aunt, and the return of
Cruz’ mother from the “grave.” But Almodovar leavens all this drama
with his own […]