Without question, the disease of paranoid schizophrenia is one of the scariest out there. Striking mostly young people between the ages of 15 and 34, it's a disease that leads to people becoming confused, delusional, violent, and without medication can lead people to becoming homeless.
As I stated recently in my theatrical review of John Waters' A Dirty Shame, I'm not easily offended when it comes to subject matter, be it violence or sexuality. I don't often consider walking out of a movie, because I always hold onto the hope that it can improve.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! All right, I know what you're thinking. Have the movie studios finally lost it entirely and released Holiday movies in September? After all, it's only a matter of time before the holiday season extends back into the back-to-school shopping season.
What was that?
That is basically what audiences will be saying as they exit the theatre after witnessing director Joseph Ruben's thriller The Forgotten, which stars Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore.
Moore stars as Telly Paretta, a grieving mother who is trying to cope with the death of her young son Sam after a horrific plane crash.
Have you ever felt like an urban zombie?
You wake up, give a giant yawn, scratch yourself, and stumble into the kitchen seeking your first cup of java. Then, even more like a zombie, you drop into your regular Monday to Friday routine.
Well, this has happened to Shaun (Simon Pegg), a TV salesman who seems to watch life walk by.
As has become a bad habit in the film industry, The Forgotten is a film that has an interesting storyline that is completely given away in the trailer. Seriously, if you have seen the trailer, there is EXTREMELY little that comes as a surprise in the film itself.
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that shocks me. Sometimes this can be a good thing and other times it can be a bad thing. In the case of the new feature film from acclaimed director John Waters, A Dirty Shame, I was left not knowing what to think.
It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since I wrote my introduction to last year's Vancouver International Film Festival. In fact, this year's festival -- which runs September 23rd through October 8th at the same four venues -- opens just two days shy of a complete calender year.
For a great romantic comedy to work, you have to have four basic film elements work for you. One is that you need a story that encompasses the couple and eventually brings them together. The second is that you need one of your primary characters to be unlucky in love or have given up on love.
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Posted by: Dean Kish • September 17, 2004 @ 11:59am
During the age of the motion picture serial, people of all ages would flock to cinemas to catch the next chapter of their favorite hero's latest adventure. Their admiration went to epic pulp heroes like "Tarzan", "Flash Gordon", "Buck Rogers", "Commander Cody", and of course "The Masked Marvel".
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