Domino You know it’s a sad sign of moviemaking when you get to a scene here where several of the main characters suddenly start tripping on mescaline, but the style of the film doesn’t change a bit because that’s the way the movie’s been riding all along. That’s what we get here from director Tony […]
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut With this Director’s Cut, Richard Kelly’s film has been transformed from a convoluted, confusing mess into an epic, challenging masterpiece. Character development is a LOT better rounded, and the performances, particularly Jake Gyllenhal’s, feel much more fleshed out. Questions still remain for the viewer, though one feels like they have […]
Donovan’s Reef Legendary director John Ford and legendary star John Wayne made a good number of quality films together, and this effort from 1963 would be the last of their collaborations, kind of a light-hearted affair set in a tropical paradise that has more relation to an Elvis movie (minus the singing) than any of […]
Dr. No Sometimes a reviewer has to ask themselves, is something that was fresh and new and exciting in 1962 still retain the same quality today, when so many elements have since lent themselves to the level of cliché and parody? That issue comes into play with this, the first ever James Bond movie, and […]
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Stanley Kubrick (as we know) was not only a guy who made movies in several different genres, but wound up often succeeding at making the BEST movie of all time in that particular genre, and this 1964 effort still stands today as […]
Dracula ’79 In many cases, doing an adaptation of a classic story or play can subject one to all sorts of scrutiny, much moreso if the adaptation is done as a major motion picture in any given era which thus makes it the “definitive” version for that generation (and preempts any other major attempt for […]
Dressed To Kill Brian De Palma at one time had made a career and had been lauded (and criticized) for making movies that emulated the style of Alfred Hitchcock. Now while that IS true (to an extent), it also remains a fact that these “homage” films introduced a nearly pulsating undercurrent of sexuality that Hitchcock […]
Driven A film that pretty much does for the sport of Indy CART racing what Any Given Sunday does for football, this is a film that has drawn enormous criticism for its lack of realism, but then again how many popular movies about other professions can say otherwise? The film follows a group of racers, […]