When we meet her father (played wonderfully by Peter Macdissi ) we immediately get a sense of how detached and odd he is. When she gets off the plane, after not having seen him for who knows how long, the first thing he says is "Your plane was late." Jasira, Moviefestivalhub.com not knowing how to respond to that says "I'm sorry" - to which he replies "Why? Where you flying the pla
The film stars the awesome Samuel L. Jackson and (in this movie, anyway) sexual heat personified in the person of Christina Ricci. The film opens with a bang (if you'll pardon the pun) showing a sex scene between Rae (Ricci) and Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) which is, for lack of a better word - intense. Let me just say now, that between the sex, violence and drug use in this movie, PLEASE for the love of Pete do NOT bring little ones to see this when it's released this Februar
Things continue to spiral out of control and eventually Jasira turns to a concerned pregnant neighbor who takes her in and educates her regarding self-respect, why older guys who want to be "friends" with 13 year olds should be avoided like the plague, and the definition of r
Look, never underestimate the power of Lady Gaga or the pull of seeing a crossover talent be validated by winning an award. Gaga didn't put in the same sort of performance as Dunst did, but that's never stopped these shows from handing out awards. This would be the biggest upset of the night for s
This is a lot like the Mad Men situation. Its star, Oscar Isaac, deservedly represents David Simon's tremendous Show Me a Hero here and yet, the series itself isn't nominated. Again, it's great to see a quirky (some might say questionable) choice like Flesh and Bone here, but one has to wonder whether HFPA tuned in to HBO in mid-to-late Aug
Writer/Director Craig Brewer has done an amazing job with Black Snake Moan and it was a wonderful experience to see this film right after I had watched the boring and over-hyped Hounddog . The only reason I didn't give this stars is because I didn't really like the Ronnie character, played by Timberlake. I don't know if it was his performance or just the way the character was written, but he was the weak link in the film. Aside from that, the film was great fun and I loved seeing the transformation of both Rae and Lazarus as they fought with their inner demons and came to terms with themselves. Outside of that, it was excellent. The pacing of the movie kept things moving, there were no extraneous scenes that could have been left out, and the music... man oh man what great mu
We learn the premise of the film in a 1950's style black and white educational movie, the sort of which most of you reading this have only seen as a parody, but I actually watched as a kid. It describes a mysterious "radiation cloud" that came from outer space and re-animated corpses. Shortly thereafter came "the great zombie war", and the rise of a huge corporation called ZomCon which at first took over protection of populated areas, but then introduced a method of domesticating zombies. This was done by means of an electronic collar which eliminated the zombies' desire for human flesh, and rendered them quite docile. They're used to mow lawns, pack groceries, deliver newspapers and most any other mundane job you can think
Martin Scorsese's Hugo led the way with eleven nominations, stacking up many a nod in the technical categories, while Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist was close behind with ten total. Academy members clearly love a good homage to the magic of old-fashioned cinema - be it a Hollywood flick set in Paris or a French production set in Hollywood. Moving o
The viewer is left to draw their own conclusion and although I liked that the film did that, another part of me would have liked a definitive conclusion. Having said that, it's probably better that it was left open-ended because too many documentaries have an obvious agenda meant to convince the viewer of some particular point of v
Lazarus decides that he will "cure" her of this sickness, but when in a half-delirium she has a nightmare and he finds her outside in the middle of the night he decides to chain her up and that's where the chemistry between Jackson and Ricci onscreen begins. What Lazarus doesn't realize is that his attempt to cure Rae will also help him find peace for his own soul regarding the betrayal he feels concerning his w
I didn't give it a full five stars because I had a sense that it was trying to sell a message, but I'll be damned if I know what it was. Of course I'm not a terribly deep guy, so maybe some other reviewer will be able to put his finger on it. It was either poking serious holes in the idea of the 1950's being idyllic, the use of illegal immigrants for menial jobs, or maybe something e
Surprisingly, neither Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin nor Disney's 2D animated critical darling, Winnie the Pooh , is a contender for Best Animated Feature. However, despite Stephen Daldry's critic-dividing Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close landing a Best Pic nod over a more universally-beloved title like, say, Warrior , that selection was (unfortunately) expec