THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: Comedy. Starring Steve Coogan, Eric
Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin. Directed by Jones. (PG. 80
minutes. At the Oaks in Berkeley and the Grand Lake in Oakland).
“The Wind in the Willows” is a cheery live-action adaptation of Kenneth
Grahame’s classic children’s book — and yet this [...]
Godzilla
1/2
Cinema
Releases – July 17,
1998
Rated on a 4-star
scale. USA. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Written by Dean Devlin and Roland
Emmerich; from a story by Devlin, Emmerich, Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio;
based on characters owned and created by Toho Co. Starring
Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno,
Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner, Harry Shearer, Arabella
Field, Vicki Lewis, Doug Savant, [...]
Everybody has that "schoolyard" crush on somebody in Hollywood. Well, at least I value everybody does. For me, Kate Winslet is my crush. The British advantage has earned my admiration and appreciate to her solid confederation of work and first caught my regard in Peter Jackson´s "Heavenly Creatures." I saw her [...]
Fund in Northwest Canadian Indian Territory, River of No Return is an enterprise tale of the gold rush days. Photographed in Technicolor and CinemaScope, the glaze was designed to manipulate the splendors of the mountains, trees, rapid rivers and Marilyn Monroe, who was riding the top of several successful films. It is in point of [...]
I dunno. The filmmakers meant in the direction of viewers to protect their 2006 IMAX documentary "Deep Sea" on a superhuman screen and in 3-D. Watching it on the humble separate out at home (and no matter how big your silver screen is at welcoming comfortable with, it's not IMAX) rather diminishes the [...]
“It’s winsome because of its
sincerity, painting a sympathetic portrait of the men who carried out this
dangerous mission.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Plays like a piece of apple pie served up as a patriotic World War
II drama, that has such detailed air bombing scenes it could have easily
been a documentary. It deservedly won an Oscar for its special [...]
“Still the Servant,” trumpet the ads for “Shaft,” but the uncharted John Helve, and the ardent remake itself, are a wholly different, cooler package deal than the 1971 original. Helmer John Singleton affectionately embraces the blaxploitation genre tradition with which the name Shaft is synonymous, while applying Experimental Millennium speed and sleekness as favourably as [...]
Bunin, puppetoonist extraordinaire, encountered many frustrations during his long battle to bring his Carroll to the screen (the uncommon flaming exertion prologue is directed by Bower). First he came up against Technicolor, who refused to handle the processing, accordingly forcing him to hate bad Ansco Color. Then he was drummed off the wall off for [...]
The Show:
One of my biggest pet peeves about anime is that series never seem to break the preconceptions of their genre. Most shows can be categorized into the harem, sci-fi, giant robot, or even high school comedy genres. Nowadays it takes a special kind of show to shatter the mold and make an immediate impression [...]
This adolescent claptrap, complete with basement mood and barrel-scraping dialogue, treads a strategy similar to that of its forerunner. A raccoon insists that Dr D (Murphy) meet president honcho the Beaver. Their forest is about to be cleared by pitiless loggers, and nothing can save the furry folk except a preservation order. A rare Pacific [...]