Author: Athan Bezaitis
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides is a dark comedy that embodies some twisted views on suburban family life and the true lack innocence of adolescence. First-time writer and director Sofia Coppola, daughter of Godfather creator Francis...
Movie Review posted on 15th January 2007
The In-Laws (2003)
Has Michael Douglas found The Fountain of Youth in Catherine Zeta-Jones? Since the Gordon Gekko days of Wall Street fame, his body is certainly a little less nimble, his face a little more wrinkled,...
Movie Review posted on 15th January 2007
Chill Factor
When will the Hollywood moguls learn? I'll admit that we liked Speed way back in 1994 despite atrocious acting and a bogus plot. But all the money and success that movie earned seems...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Night at the Golden Eagle
Old town Los Angeles, just south of the high-rise financial district, is a seedy, run-down visage of what once was a thriving metropolis. Filled with drugs, prostitution, and vagrants, it represents a dark underbelly...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Superstar
It's time to see some new female faces in comedy. Sure there are lots of women comedians, but who else can successfully headline a big-time film other than Janeane Garofalo these days?...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Esther Kahn
They say that even the most accomplished actor still has something to prove, that no matter how much adoration he might receive, there is always some sacrosanct person or place where the performer turns to...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Welcome to Bollywood, where every film ever produced is a musical. If you're frightened by the thought, rest assured that with a population of 1.2 billion people backing a film industry that has been remarkably...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Rosetta
Fair warning! Don't eat a big meal before you watch Rosetta. If you thought the handheld camera motion from The Blair Witch Project was bad, you'll be stumbling out of this one with...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Romance
It's not every day that you can see a well known porn star acting in serious cinema. Of course, Romance is not really worthy of being called a serious film. While its theme of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Splendor
Generation X will leave behind an inimitable legacy. Splendor, with all its profound idiosyncrasies, will someday be considered proof.Twenty years from now people will look back and say, "Man, everyone was so weird in...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Restaurant
They might as well have called this movie J. T. McClure's, which is the name of the "restaurant" where all the film's characters work. That would have at least helped to add a little...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Agnes Browne
I'm always skeptical when I see a Hollywood diva trying to look haggard, poor, and malnourished in a film. Everybody knows that in real life they all have personal trainers and special diets along...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Perfect Blue
If it were somehow easier to translate Japanese into English without losing so much essential meaning and depth, anime style films would surely be more entertaining and maybe even accepted by mainstream American audiences. This...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Joe the King
If you go to see this movie because you like Val Kilmer or Ethan Hawke, you're making a mistake. You won't get the typical flamboyance a la Kilmer, nor the masculine ruggedness you've come...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
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