Reviews

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Austin Film Festival ’06)

    Release Date: January 5, 2007 Dustin Hoffman. Alan Rickman. Have I sold you on the movie yet? As if going to see two brilliant actors…

  • Flags of Our Fathers

    That Clint Eastwood, he’s like Stephen Spielberg, but with a gun. Eastwood’s journey in Hollywood has taken him from a six-shooter toting, all star actor…

  • Pirate Radio USA (Austin Film Festival ’06)

    Release Date: TBA Normally I write movie reviews for this website, but I consider this piece to be more of a public service announcement. If…

  • The TV Set (Austin Film Festival ’06)

    The Opening Night film of the festival, The TV Set, is a satirical look at the world of television production from the mewling and puking of the show concept, through the pilot taping, straight on to the network picking it up for the new Fall line up. It’s a tale of butting heads – creativity vs. marketability – offered from Jake Kasdan, the director of Orange County.

  • Marie Antoinette

    Release Date: October 20, 2006 The line between eccentric genius and delusion is often a thin one when it comes to filmmakers. Some films are…

  • The Prestige

    Director Christopher Nolan may not win an Oscar for The Prestige, but he should get a medal, or at least a cookie. Not since Hitchcock…

  • Russian Dolls

    Available: September 26, 2006 Love is big business in Hollywood. A quick survey of every movie ever made (that’s right, a quick one) reveals that…

  • The Departed

    Jack Nicholson. Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio. Matt Damon. Mark Whalberg. Martin Sheen. All that is left is an opening credit voiceover from Michael Buffer: “Ding ding ding… Let’s get ready to rumble!”

  • Hard Candy

    Release Date: September 19, 2006 Sick, twisted, unnerving, I have never seen anything like it. It begins as if to seem so innocent, a film…

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