Inland Empire This film can be looked at as David Lynch’s ultimate epic unfiltered presentation of his genius with no compromises, or the point where he finally crosses the line into muddled cinematic self indulgence. Really, it’s a little of both. For the first 45 minutes, the plot is almost linear, showcasing Laura Dern as […]
Insignificance Sometimes the most fascinating thing about celebrity is not so much what the actual person is like in real life, but rather instead the PERCEPTION of said celebrity from the point of view of the general public, based in many ways upon the image that they have of the celeb from their acting roles […]
Insomnia In all of his storied career, it’s a real shame that Robin Williams didn’t take on more sinister, evil, villainous roles, preferring instead for the most part to stick to his typecasting as a goofy, overgrown manchild in a series of saccharine sweet, cutesy poo comedies (none more horribly so than Jack), but when […]
International Everyone has pretty much been clued in by now in the way that the old money families and banks of the world pretty much control everything that goes on in unfathomably imaginable ways, but the question really is, now that the average joes and jills of the world have at least a working knowledge […]
Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles The vampire movie subgenre has always been supplemented by that of the vampire novels, going all the way back to Bram Stoker’s seminal work of the story Dracula, which not only invented vampire literature but also laid out much of the hard groundwork for the various pieces of […]
Iron Man 2 In making a sequel to the wildly successful Iron Man, director / co-star Jon Favreau made sure to retain a number of elements from the original, most notably Robert Downey Jr. bringing ample amounts of swagger and angst as billionaire businessman Tony Stark. Downey rarely can do a role where he doesn’t […]
The Island Sir Michael Caine is certainly one of the Grand Old Troopers of modern movie acting, having gone from role to role knowing the possibility of greatness was always at hand but (even while winning two Oscars in the process) sometimes happening upon a project where the end results were less than satisfactory which […]
Island Of Dr. Moreau The depiction in cinema of the descent of a society into all out absolute anarchy within the confines of a motion picture is not the easiest thing to do most of the time, simply because so many movie sets are so tightly scripted and controlled that the urge to allow anything […]