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Obsolete of his numerous film roles, Michael J. Fox will probably always be best remembered through despite his arbitrary Marty McFly in the

Back to the Tomorrow’s

trilogy, however his job as Scott Howard in

Teen Wolf

comes in, at least for me, a pretty close second. Not that the shoot or his show is all that eager, [...]

3_Idiots
A generally underrated picture, admittedly not always suggestible to follow in its voyage from stem to stern the exclusive reaches of high finance and merchant banking, discovering conspiracy and take for a ride along the way, with the fate of the full Western economy hanging in the deliberate. Disconcerting in its kaleidoscopic shifts in tone, [...]

“It’s a beaut.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

This is the last western Andre De Toth (”Ramrod”/”Springfield Rifle”)
shoots and it’s a beaut. It is shot in austere b/w by the great cinematographer
Russell Harlan. Philip Yordan handed in a tough screenplay based on the
book by L.E. Wells. But it’s through De Toth’ hard-edged directing that
the film remains gripping.

In this [...]

Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is a young, hot marksman fighter leader who, along with his partner Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), is given the opportunity to sit in on the US Navy’s elite fighter training school. There he meets and falls in love with civilian instructor ‘Charlie’ Blackwood (Kelly McGillis) who sees trustworthy genius [...]

Hyper Police is a dreary police drama anime, albeit one with an gripping premise. Apparatus years in the future, the story takes town in a the human race where humans live with (and then procreate with) various animals and beasties. In the urban district of Shinjuku, the population is divided between the humans, [...]

Omit the expensive pyrotechnics of “True Lies” and the high-tech time-tripping of “Forrest Gump.” The most amazing special effects in any contemporary pic are those in “Destiny in Rank,” a spectacular IMAX docu given a special unveiling at the Toronto Film Celebration. Pic should find large and appreciative audiences as it slowly rolls out to [...]

My first bite of Chinese conductor Wong Kar-Wai’s work was In the Mood for Love, his spare, quiet libidinous masterpiece, about a valet and a woman who detect their respective spouses are having an affair but can’t really bring themselves to do the same, despite their undeniable despise for the same another. Kar-Wai’s latest, [...]

“Romantic relationships don’t
get filmed any better than Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Romantic relationships don’t get filmed any better than Richard Linklater’s
(”Slacker”/”Dazed and Confused”/ “Tape”) Before Sunset, which is a sequel
that matches in quality his wonderfully delirious 1995 Before Sunrise.
Linklater seamlessly tells you all you have to know about the first version,
so that coming [...]

OK, I’ll admit it, and with no shame whatsoever: I’ve next to no idea what to make of Todd Solondz’s Palindromes, and you know what? I doubt the filmmaker would have a problem with me owning up to it.
If you’re a fan of Mr. Solondz’s work, and for the most part I definitely am, then [...]

La Cienaga is an Argentinian film about the slowly decaying fragile center of a midway group family in the dog days of summer. But it’s also connected with many other things including boredom in the lives of children, the sensuality of living, the frustration with growing up and being not able to express feelings that [...]

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