Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Amazing, too, has been the trajectory of this low-budget Australian horror flick. With a financing history as tortured as its plot (one of the producers had to mortgage his Adelaide home to raise the last of its budget), Wolf Creek was snapped up by the wily Weinstein brothers for international release. Opening in the U.K. in September, it grossed $3 million, roughly three times its budget; late last month it was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Original Screenplay for Mclean. Fueling the buzz were reports of hardcore violence, including finger slashings and execution...
...more [Star Wars] films,” there is going to be a live-action “Star Wars” TV show. Look out, primetime!“It’s going to be much darker, much edgier, and much more character-based than plot-based,” McCallum announced. Covering the 18-year period between the end of Episode III and the beginning of Episode IV, he expects that the show will have roughly 100 hours of footage, and that shooting will begin in early 2007. But that?...
...Director Martin Campbell seems to be the maniacal spawn of this unholy entertainment tryst. Campbell’s “The Legend of Zorro” (a sequel to his 1998 hit “The Mask of Zorro”) has more puerile laughs than it has plot in its two lurching, painful hours. This movie is like a bottle of Jägermeister: painful on the way down, dizzying once it’s in you, and awful for your liver. The film opens as Zorro (Antonio Banderas) safeguards a vote on California statehood from a gang...
...Three…Extremes” is actually a cross-cultural trilogy of short films, with no plot or character elements in common, varying widely in tone. The first short, “Dumplings,” by Hong Kong director Fruit Chan, horrifies by suggesting its premise—a woman eating babies—is entirely realistic. The Korean film by director Chan-wook Park, “Cut,” is black comedy descending into madness. Japanese director Takashi Miike directs “Box,” a delirious psychological nightmare. They all succeed brilliantly...
...plenty of standard-issue dire warnings not to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong (wonder if she’ll ignore them?). How the girl wound up two thousand miles away and dead is an interesting little mystery, but it is ultimately the only driving plot element to the movie. Like Morris and Collins’ nightclub act, there’s enough flash and excitement that the lack of substance is not readily apparent. There’s lots of crying, yelling, strange behavior, and kinky sex (a personal favorite for weirdness is the drugged...