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Peter Jackson’s King Kong (Dir. Peter Jackson, 2005): Beware the film (or any enterprise) that features the maker’s name prominently above the title. Think M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village. Think…
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Dir. Mike Newell): I approach the Harry Potter movies from what may be a different vantage point. I have read exactly one…
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In Praise of Love (Eloge de L’Amour) (2001, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard): This is not a film review. At least, not one of my typical film reviews. Modern time, today time,…
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Foreign Correspondent (1940, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) “All that noise you hear isn’t static—it’s death coming to London. Yes, you can hear the bombs falling on the streets and on the…
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Lost Highway (1997, Dir. David Lynch): “It’s a film made with a certain breezy contempt for audiences. I’ve seen it twice, hoping to make sense of it. There is no…
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We’re dated and categorized by everything — driver’s licenses, birth certificates, college dates of graduation, mortgages, kids — but nothing seems to pigeonhole us, or equate age, quite as much…
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One Nite in Mongkok (2004, Dir. Derek Yee): Time marches on; some things change, some stay the same. Cliches all, but in the case of mainstream Hong Kong cinema, undeniably…
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A man said Why, why does travelingin cars and in trains make him feel sad,a beautiful sadness.I’ve felt this before.It’s the people in the cities you’ll never know,it is everything…
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New Police Story (2004, Dir. Benny Chan): Bless Jackie Chan. Three decades of bone-crunching acrobatics, mugging for the cameras, and good-natured hijinks, and he’s still at it. Never mind that…
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005, Dir. Doug Liman) “I never said all actors are cattle … what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” — Alfred Hitchcock…
