Anya Ruoss’s blog

Writer-director Jeremy Podeswa (“Eclipse”) has built a house of
cards — but it’s one of considerable genius. He deftly pulls together an
absorbing, complex melodrama about diverse lives intersecting through the
tug of the senses — touch, taste, hearing, smell and vision. The potential
tragedy of the lost child looms as a dramatic backdrop.
“The Five Senses” is enlivened by [...]

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Neil LaBute’s utterly misconceived remake of Robin Hardy’s 1973 cult trepidation film is a tedious, fright-untrammelled failure, not least because of its half-cocked undertake to replace scriptwriter Anthony Shaffer’s original clash between po-faced Christianity and honest-spirited paganism with his own sardonic take on the battle of the sexes (cf ‘The Shape of Things’). So instead [...]

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Peter Jackson, master of subversive comedy, presents the curriculum vitae of a hapless progeny man whose overbearing mommy gets him into a up of hector when she catches a quaint zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses. This grandiose splatterfest features loads of unforgettable, stomach-turning effects. Highlights comprise a ghoulish, bloodthirsty baby, [...]

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When the manic dopehead Jake (Ben Foster) fails to relate to up with the $800 he owes the San Gabriel Valley’s wanna be browse through scoff at and drug dealing Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch), Truelove and his tie of young followers kidnap Jake’s 15 year full of years kid fellow-clansman Zack (Anton Yelchin), in a [...]

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Two couples go at it in wicked `Bad Manners'

Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Staff Critic

Some free watching video movie webservices , resources warn that non-paid watching video services can only offer you low quality films with disappointing resolutions that destroy your online movie watching experience, it is totally] true. Site host, i.e. does [...]

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Abraham Polonsky’s screenplay reworking of Richard Dougherty’s novel The Commissioner is thorny and to the quiddity, bringing out the side set forth problems but without dallying with them overmuch.Pic gets away to a flying start, with Richard Widmark as a dedicated cop who isn’t above using his badge for some fringe benefits, and sidekick Harry [...]

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Essence documentary filmmakers Nigel and Marianne Thornberry (voices of Tim Currie and Jodie Carlisle) are in the Serengeti Plain in Africa with daughters Elizabeth (Lacey Chabert) and Debbie (Danielle Harris) and adopted wild kid Donnie (Flea). Elizabeth, who has the power to communicate with animals, discovers that ivory poachers Sloan and Bree Blackburn (Rupert Everett [...]

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“A Beautiful Mind,” remarkably, takes neither road. Adapted from a
biography by Sylvia Nasar, this is the story of John Forbes Nash Jr., the
mathematics genius who formulated game theory, which became a foundation for
contemporary economics.
During the Cold War, Nash developed schizophrenia and became delusional and
paranoid, but recovered and won a 1994 Nobel Prize.
Starring Russell Crowe, who [...]

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La Locanda della Felicita'

BACIATE CHI VI SLASH BACK (EMBRASSEZ QUI VOUS VOUDREZ)

Regia Michel Blanc

Con Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, FRANCIA, 2002, 90', ISTITUTO LUCE

Da che parte cominciare per recensire questo videotape? dal regista (Michel Blanc, ma non so che altro dire di lui)? dagli attori ( conosco solo Charlotte Rampling e Carole Bouchet e [...]

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-By Daniel Eagan

Scribe-numero uno Kenneth Lonergan makes an impressive feature debut with You Can Count on Me, a modest but winning look at the strained bonds between a brother and sister in an upstate New York village. Uniformly unflagging performances bring elsewhere the nuances in Lonergan's script, and his uninterrupted direction finds a good balance [...]

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