Farewell, dreams of glory Matteo Garrone's new movie Reality is not as somber or realistic as his 2008 Grand Prize winner at Cannes, Gomorrah, about the Neapolitan crime network, or as creepy as his earlier work. It depicts the pathetic ...

This is a very funny movie directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Tim Blake Nelson and Jeffrey Tambor were the only actors I was familiar with, but the starring roles were played by Patrick ...

The Coen Brothers nail another comedy with a wonderful cast playing wonderful, screwball characters. This movie is a riot. The cast includes George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Brad Pitt. Malkovich is superb as Osbourne Cox, a ...

Mad chase Morten Tyldum is talented. "The Firm meets Blood Simple," one reviewer wrote. But there are lots more elements than that in the new Norwegian movie Headhunters: they include Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith, the Bourne actioners, B-Horror, and the coldly ...

We're in Thailand and in a remote village Ting (played by Tony Jaa) is finishing his training by the local monk. Some thugs from Bangkok arrive in the village and attempt to buy an amulet from the ...

Co-written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, directed by Wright, and starring Pegg, this is one of the funniest movies I've seen. I compare it to the "Hot Shots" movies by Abrahms and Proft. Part slasher flick, part buddy movie, ...

Plot - Set in pre-1997, before the return of Hong Kong to China, three bothers (leaders of a gang) look to consolidate their power over the other triads via drug deals and blackmail. Unbeknownst to them, one ...

One of Ben Gazzara's (1930 - 2012) best roles

Plot - John Rain aka 'Asian Jason Bourne' is a black-ops agent who assassinates corrupt Japanese Government ministers at the behest of......well I'm not sure who, the CIA I think. After realising the family of one of the men he ...

Plot - The night before Halloween, a young couple are attacked in their apartment by a gang, the man, Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) is murdered while the woman is raped and dies shortly from her injuries. A year later, Eric ...

Plot - In Berlin a pederast serial killer, Gabriel Engel, is caught by the police in his flat after a violent conflict. He refuses to talk to anyone, apart from occasionally baiting the chief officer. Meanwhile in the village of ...

Plot - Chan Kwai-Bun (Lau Ching-Wan) was a brilliant, unorthodox detective who was discharged for being.......well crazy; his method of investigation involves 'seeing' the inner personality or spirit of people, in a sixth-sight manner. Some years after being retired from ...

Plot - Two group of hitmen meet at a house, one set to kill the occupant (an ex-gangster returned home) the other set to save him. After a stand-off it transpires they are all childhood friends and instead of killing ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzJKnEgUM4&list=UUbJGBu6W9S4bD25q1VgbB5w&index=2&feature=plcp Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara were on the red carpet at the UK Premiere of David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", based on the first novel of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, which captured the imagination of audiences ...

The Conversation This may be the best Seventies paranoia film, chock full of astounding actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forest, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, and others. This was written and directed in 1974 by Francis ...

This is a punk movie directed by Ulf Malmros. It starts at the end and loops around in fits and starts till you get all the details filled in. Starring Tuva Novotny in the title roll and Jonas Rimeika as ...

http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/public_enemies_ver4_xlg.jpg In theory this film should really work. An interesting story, a great cast, excellent technical team and a dedication to detai/lauthenticity. However, what actually appears on screen is a dull, lifeless and too earnest. the 'look' of the film ...

This film topped my Netflix queue following the trio of John Cusack films but was not part of any streak or stream of consciousness queuing that I can identify. I placed it on my queue because I'd never seen it, ...

The Germans had a thing for men degrading and debasing themselves without limits for women. For Louise Brooks, maybe it was worth it. This is a silent film worth seeing. The myth of Pandora* is heartbreaking, and this movie actually ...

Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie''s plot. "Carlito Brigante" (Al Pacino) was just saved from a 30 year prison sentence when it is learned that evidence was illegally collected. Now, "Brigante" is determined to stay out ...