Archive for Release Year: 1999
23 posts from 25 July 2017 to 28 June 2026.
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Ensemble cast trade snarky remarks amongst themselves, and there’s a giant crocodile in the lake somewhere.
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What can you say about a Charlie Kaufman script?
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Aren’t air traffic controllers wacky?
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Alternates between horror and comedy. Should have made up their mind and cut in the horror bits.
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Probably Scorsese’s finest.
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Surprisingly introspective plot about oil pipelines in Asia Minor countries.
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Actually pretty funny. The basic plot is good enough, but the script is tight and very well acted. A joy to watch.
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Polanski’s Eyes Wide Shut. Just an excuse to see his wife naked, yuck!
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Remember, it’s written like that: capital X, capital Z. eXistenZ. It’s new, it’s from Cronenberg, and it is here.
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The grand-daddy of all found footage films. Squeezes emotional blood out of stones, creeks and tree trunks.
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One of those alleged faithful recreation betrayed by amateurish production values. There’s way too many boom mics appearing on the shot.
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What a fucking mess, Jarhead mixed with Transformers. It zigzags between “serious” piece of American propaganda on the first Gulf war, and a regular action flick with shit blowing up and people firing guns behind their back.
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VR Porn leads to an old man’s death, since his climax led to clarity about the system of the world. World on a Wireless Headset.
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That’s fucked up. Slow burner, preps you you 90 minutes of romcom, for a final segway into trademark Takeshi Miike madness. The ending is very much anti-climatic.
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What a goddamn mess. A 90’s The Exorcist, radical and shit. Hideous in every way. It just ends, no payoff for our suffering girl. Just a stroll in a garden.
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This is a more romantic twist on Back to the Future, just another excuse to have the good old 40’s and 50’s back in the spotlight. At least the theme park version.
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Now that’s pod racing!
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What a great gem. Thematically extreme, but touches so many facets of human nature, it’s almost blissful. He who fights monsters…
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A very progressive take on the whole homosexual closeted gay situation, wrapped in a very mainstream romantic comedy. Ironically, the woman are not very well treated here, for runtime reasons I think.
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This is still a James Bond parody, but it has many other gags semi-related, including Time Travel to steal the mojo. The Powers Girl is Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell, Shag-very-well by reputation, as a generic American valley girl.
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This is bog standard copaganda, aping NYPD Blue, or one of the Bellisario shows, without the grit. But it’s written by a local former cop (or something), there’s opportunity for unintended comedy.
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Oh god, this has too much Jean-Claude Van Damme attempts at acting, and not enough roundhouse kicks. There’s a HAL ripoff, and they even lift scenes from 2001, where the ‘puter is listening about his own demise across a window and goes rogue.
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Romancing the Bond, but with many more twists and turns for the drama. The decadence is too over the top, the private equity job too disgusting, and Dennis Leary is not pissed off enough at all these upper class twits.