Eyes Wide Shut: Unrated Stanley Kubrick’s final film is at once both confounding and astonishing, telling a story that never makes itself all too clear all for the final moral being pretty simplistic: If you’re married to someone who loves you, you NEVER take it for granted. Cruise is the star of the movie no […]
Face / Off Sometimes in the world of cinema, a nearly absurd, unbelievable premise can be overcome through the sheer force of actual, literal execution, making a great movie out of something that shouldn’t be and becoming an unlikely classic of its genre in the process. Even then, the multitudes of people who dismiss and […]
Faceless European filmmakers tend to do things a little bit differently than we do around here, especially when it comes to horror, injecting their films with enough blood, sex and grime to keep the fans coming back for more. Perhaps the Citizen Kane of the Euro Horror genre is this 1988 release, renowned for its […]
Faculty The infathomable skills of director Robert Rodriguez are as such that he could probably make a film adapted from the phone book and it would wind up being fun, wild, and entertaining. To show what he could do with someone else’s material, he took this script from credited writer Kevin (Scream) Williamson that could […]
Fallen As the film began, I immediately steadied myself for yet another retread of the ground covered by Shocker and The Horror Show, as a serial killer jovially heads towards his execution with the promise that he will return to take revenge on the cop who put him away. Certainly I was treated to a […]
Falling Down A film that literally shocked people out of their preordained conceptions about society in 1993 and twenty years later remains incredibly relevant in the wake of mass shootings and the actions of real life people who have become “fed up” with the way this country works, director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Ebbe Roe […]
Fantastic Four: Director’s Cut After an abortive attempt by Roger Corman in the early 90s to adapt the comic book world’s most famous superhero team, we finally got this big-budgeted effort by Tim Story, the most distinctive feature probably being that it really feels like a film aimed directly at kids with enough special effects […]
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer It appears clear from watching the second (and probably last) chapter of this superhero saga, that director Tim Story has learned from his previous mistakes. Unlike the bloated original, this sequel clocks in at an efficient 91 minutes, with much of the flab and excess material that weighed […]
Fargo Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a very, very good movie is an overabundance of praise and hype that can actually come from even the most respectable quarters of film analysis and criticism, thus building up an idea of quality for a film that in a first time viewer’s mind is absolutely […]