Don Cheadle is one of those actors who seems to be everywhere these days, popping up in After the Sunset, Ocean’s Twelve, The Assassination of Richard Nixon and so on. But his minor roles in those films pale next to his powerful performance in Hotel Rwanda, the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager […]
Because of Winn-Dixie
Christians have become more prominent in Hollywood lately, both as film makers and as film critics — and the press junket for Because of Winn-Dixie, a charming adaptation of Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Honor-winning children’s book, offers ample evidence of both. On the one hand, the film, about a preacher’s kid and her pet dog, was […]
Saved!
A teenaged boy tells his girlfriend he’s gay. She sleeps with him, thinking it will make him straight — but it doesn’t. His parents send him away. Then she discovers she’s pregnant. And while all this is going on, her widowed mother has an affair with the principal — who also happens to be a […]
Exorcist: The Beginning
It is doubtful that a worthy sequel to The Exorcist (1973) will ever be made, but that hasn’t stopped several filmmakers from trying. The original film, directed by William Friedkin and based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, was in some ways more of a mood piece than a story. The demonic possession of […]
I, Robot
I, Robot not only has very little in common with the Isaac Asimov book on which it is very, very loosely based, it also takes one of that book’s central messages and stands it completely on its head — and a part of me couldn’t be happier. Directed by Alex Proyas (whose moody, noir-ish sci-fi […]
Fahrenheit 9/11
Controversy made lots of money for Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ. Now Michael Moore is hoping it will do the same for Fahrenheit 9/11, his heavily sarcastic, rather entertaining and relentlessly incoherent screed against the presidency of George W. Bush. There is very little here that anyone who has followed the politics […]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Another year, another Harry Potter product. The Harry Potter franchise has produced one new novel or film every year since J.K. Rowling published her first book in 1997, and Alfonso Cuaron’s adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban may be the most entertaining installment to date — at least as far as the […]
Big Fish
Big fish is easily the most personal and mature film Tim Burton has made in years. It is also one of those films that manages to be both sad and uplifting at the same time — uplifting, because it points to a profound truth, but sad, because it offers no basis for that truth; beneath […]
Cheaper by the Dozen
Bonnie Hunt, who has often played the mother, big sister, or best friend in films like Beethoven, Jerry Maguire and her own directorial debut Return to Me, is such a charming, winning actress and comedian that you want her movies to do well. Alas, Cheaper by the Dozen, in which she plays the wife of […]
The Barbarian Invasions, The Event, My Life Without Me – 3 Canadian Films
Alas, technical problems and a crowded schedule prevented me from posting regular updates during the Vancouver film festival like I had hoped. But now that the festival has come and gone — and now that some of the films showcased there are opening in regular theatres — it is possible to comment on some of […]
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