“You make me feel like a better person, and I’m… not a better person,” says Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) to his girlfriend as she announces she’s leaving him. Indifference is a word that requires more effort to type than the emotion that typifies Tweed’s attitude toward her. He’s of course a caricature of Simon Cowell, the garrulous talent judge of the ubiquitous…
Directed by Clark Johnson (”S.W.A.T.”,”Iron Eagle II”) and written by George Nolfi (”Oceans Twelve”), “The Sentinel” is not a thriller, it’s not a drama, it’s not even a decent crime story. It’s a “star” movie. Note that 50 percent of the theatrical poster’s visual space is occupied by the names of the four main cast members, including Michael Douglas who was an actor once upon a time. The movie begins in the fashion of about…
This is, in a way, a difficult movie to analyze. First, because it’s a conglomeration of only bits and pieces of other movies, and not an entire story in its own right—possessing only slightly more continuity from scene to scene over its predecessors. Second, how do you know when the melodramatic acting and decidedly silly dialogue is actually bad…
“Brick” has every reason to be pretentious. I didn’t realize this going in, and for the first fifteen minutes I felt like I was watching a bad film school rehash of Godard in the most contrived manner. But somewhere along the way, this flagrantly self-affected and at times dementedly jocular piece of art-house trash earned my…
Let it be said that Antonio Banderas can take even an aggressively formulaic movie and turn it into a passable affair—sort of. In this case, he plays dance instructor Pierre Dulaine. From pierredulaine.com, I learn that the real Dulaine studied dance from the age of fourteen in England and by 21 became a member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, won several international championships, and moved to New York in…
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