Unimaginative, undistinctive retitling of Joan the Mad, a tale of passion, infidelity, jealousy, madness, death. A tawdry and commonplace tale, in other words, elevated on the high heels of history and nobility: Princess Joan of Castile and Philip the Handsome of Flanders, ca. 1500. Well-produced, which is to say well-costumed …
Well, "clinically depressed" love, at any rate. Not to overstate the case. He (Chris O'Donnell) dresses by the code of Seattle grunge, but after all he lives in Seattle, and is otherwise a responsible big brother in a single-parent home. She (Drew Barrymore, tattoos concealed) is a moonlight-jet-skiing, library-book-stealing, school-skipping, …
An assured and energetic visual style, reliant almost to the point of over-reliance on short tracking shots and quick dissolves, makes this futuristic Born Losers worth watching. It is set not so far in the future as to pose problems of production or imagination for the filmmakers, just far enough …
Self-consciousness must surely be the keynote of the Mad Max sequel, which would appear to have been made in astonished response to the popular and critical approval heaped on the unassuming forerunner, and which, as a result, appears to be much more scrutinizing of itself, much more full of itself. …
The people are called things like Auntie Entity, Scrooloose, The Collector, and Master-Blaster. The last-named is actually two people, a dwarfish genius who rides piggyback on his masked bodyguard, and together they rule the Underworld (or power source) of Bartertown. Auntie Entity, who rules the rest of Bartertown, wants to …
Quick: when you're trying to forge a new civilization from the ashes of the apocalypse, what's the most important element for making sure it endures? That's right: babies. And in a world where the test tubes have all been smashed, if you want babies, you need women: their wombs, their …
Quick: when you're trying to forge a new civilization from the ashes of the apocalypse, what's the most important element for making sure it endures? That's right: babies. And in a world where the test tubes have all been smashed, if you want babies, you need women: their wombs, their …
A demographically diverse trio of women (Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes) are of undivided mind about the wisdom and fun of siphoning off wrinkled old bills, marked for shredding, from the Kansas City Federal Reserve. The director, Callie Khouri, makes a unanimous fourth. A caper comedy heedless of consequences, …
Curiously disjointed and jumpy for something that originated as a theater piece (by Alan Bennett), with little in the way of sustained dialogues and developed scenes. George III of England, but no longer of the American Colonies, is given a distinctive way of talking ("Yes! Yes!" "What? What?" "Hey! Hey!"), …
Claude Sautet's portraits of the French bourgeoisie are sometimes accused of being rather more celebratory than critical of "the good life," but the truth is he's not interested in propagandizing one way or the other. The compassion in his point of view is a measure of his refusal to divorce, …
There will be fighting!
Three happy-go-lucky guys - Manoj (Ram Nithin), Ashok (Narne Nithin), and Damodhar (Sangeeth Shoban) - are studying in an engineering college. They kill time by being involved in petty fights. Manoj falls for Shruthi (Gouri Priya), while Jenni (Ananthika) loves Ashok. Damodhar is the kind of guy who isn’t interested …