Articles Posted September 2007
Trade
Debuting at the United Nations last week, “Trade” is a small film with a big mission. Kevin Kline anchors the story with his performance as Ray, a Texas policeman caught up in tracking down a network of internationals involved in the trafficking of children into sex slavery. Kline, along with German filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner, hope [...]
Resident Evil: Extinction
The third and presumably final chapter in one of the most successful video games-turned-motion pictures makes its bloody swan song, bringing back the exotic Milla Jovovich as the zombie zealot, Alice, on a mission to dead the undead. “Resident Evil: Extinction” is still laughably (thankfully) ridiculous, but much larger in scope and scale than its [...]
December Boys
Like the sketchy take-out joint down the street that strangely serves everything from pizzas to subs to Chinese — behind bulletproof class, no less — “December Boys” is one of those films that is to be approached with caution and only out of a nagging hunger (to see Daniel Radcliffe in something other than “Harry [...]
The Kingdom
Delivering a compelling movie that deals with the middle-east and the often-adjacent topic of terrorism is no easy feat given today’s global environment. Nevertheless, Peter Berg (actor/director) brings us “The Kingdom,” a stark, rapid-fire investigation surrounding the attack on a “green zone”-like community in Saudi Arabia, for which the FBI has arrived to root out [...]
Eastern Promises
Director David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen come together again in “Eastern Promises,” after the successful and dark “A History of Violence.” The combination of the two seems to produce some of the most vivid, methodic and violent dramas. “Eastern Promises” falls right in line with its exceptional brutality, unabashed story telling, and Mortensen’s enveloping persona, [...]
The Brave One
There has been much reporting about the return of the vigilante film genre with the recent release of Kevin Bacon’s “Death Sentence” and before that, Rosario Dawson’s “Descent.” “The Brave One” starring Jodie Foster is the next in line to go public and probably the one most will talk about. Though squarely in the vigilante [...]
Death Sentence
Revenge thrillers always hold an inherent appeal and smell of satisfaction, because it’s oh-so fun to watch the bad guy get what he deserves. And with director James Wan of Saw at the helm, you can bet that satisfaction to be bloody, with a dash of complexity. Death Sentence, written by the same guy that [...]
