Pink Flicks Noel Vera The British Council in cooperation with Mowelfund presents the Pink Film Festival, a Festival of gay films starting June 16. A quick ...
As the web still turns Noel Vera Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 2" is, as the title suggests, more of the same, only better--more digital effects, more web-slinging,...
Vengeance is mined Noel Vera With "Kill Bill, Volume 2" Quentin Tarantino completes what, for better or worse, represents his vision for the new millennium--a ...
Where's the flicks? Noel Vera The Society of Film Archivists (SOFIA), celebrating its 11th year with the help of the UP Film Institute, the Cultural Center of...
Astound the world in any way Noel Vera Orson Welles' 1946 production of "Around the World in 80 Days" was, according to legend, something to behold, a stage...
Aye, numbnuts Noel Vera Isaac Asimov's short story collection "I, Robot"--the title slapped on by an editor despite Asimov's objections (or so he claimed) that...
Pick your poison By Noel Vera Chang Cheh's "Five Deadly Venoms" (1978) turns on a brilliant premise: five men, trained in five styles of kung fu--"Centipede," ...
Brain wash Noel Vera "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is yet another product of eccentric, enigmatic scriptwriter Charlie Kaufman's brain, a light- ...
Village of the dumb Noel Vera It would have been nice to go against the negative critical tide washing all over M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie "The...
Softcore Noel Vera Nonzee Nimibutr's "Jan Dara" came out way back in 2001 and was screened in Cinemanila in December the same year, after having made the...
The New Yorkers had their chance; now it's Toronto's turn. Haven't seen this but Lav Diaz's previous 5-hour "Batang West Side" (West Side Avenue) was a pretty...
Odor in the court Noel Vera Peter Howitt's "Laws of Attraction" has supersuccessful divorce attorney Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) facing off with maddeningly ...
Snake movie bites Noel Vera Dwight H. Little's "Anacondas," sequel to the efficient if not very evocative 1997 monster flick, transfers the action from the...
Godawful Noel Vera Nick Hamm's "Godsend" opens with a quick sketch of a happy family-- father Paul Duncan (Greg Kinnear), mother Jessie (Rebecca Romijn- ...
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Lousy going on awful Noel Vera Gary Winick's "13 Going on 30" is about as witless, toothless, humorless, and charmless a teenybopper comedy as any you might...
Different strokes Noel Vera Stephen Shainberg's "Secretary," a film adaptation of a short story by Mary Gaitskill, turns on a nice little premise: Lee...
Land of the giants by Noel Vera Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" may not seem so much like a serious documentary as it does one of those reality-TV stunts,...
Mudslinging 101 Noel Vera "Documentary" filmmaker Michael Moore is hardly one to inspire sober thoughts about fair play and unimpeachable journalism; if...
Dead in the water Noel Vera Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson and Rob Letterman's "Shark Tale," about a fish (Will Smith), who falls afoul of a group of mobster...
Playing with fire Noel Vera Jay Russell's "Ladder 49" is, you might say, his take on "Backdraft," Ron Howard's 1991 paean to firefighters. There are ...
Father of "The Bride" Noel Vera I remember seeing this years ago on a Betamax tape, right after seeing the original (I had the films taped off HBO, way back...
Bad signal Noel Vera "Cellular" is directed by David Ellis, who's got a longer list of credits as stuntman and stunt coordinator than he has as filmmaker ...
Take two Noel Vera Richard Linklater's "Before Sunset" isn't many things: it isn't profound, or dramatic, or earthshaking in anyway, nor was it meant to be....
King Kong revisited Saw King Kong again after--ten? twelve?--years, and better still, recorded it. Crummy VHS copy, but that's better than staring wistfully at...
The passables Noel Vera Brad Bird's "The Incredibles," his first film with Pixar, is an eclectic mish-mash of pop-culture influences, from Alan Moore's ...
Staying alive Noel Vera Mike Mitchell's "Surviving Christmas" defies description, but the words "car wreck," "train crash," and "bridge collapse" come to mind....
Pshaw Noel Vera Australian filmmaker James Wan's "Saw" is a mighty blunt instrument, about a serial killer out to make a philosophical point (yes, yet another...
A family movie Noel Vera Don Mancini is lucky enough to have written all five of his "Chucky" pictures; that way he's retained control over his characters'...
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