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Perhaps the greatest success of Asif Mian’s “Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives” video is its stunning ability to draw the viewer, quite literally, into Aesop Rock’s world...
...story intact, focusing only on animating his prose. The narrator reads directly from several passages of the book intermittently throughout the film, maintaining the literary tone of the novel. “Memoirs of a Geisha” provides the rare combination of intellectual depth and entertainment, intriguing the viewer with the realistic reenactment of a geisha’s life while embellishing Golden’s creation through great filmmaking. After last month when the saccharine “Pride and Prejudice” utterly failed to deliver the essence of the novel, it is a relief...
...Scooby Doo.” While McLean clearly deserves the praise he’s received for his directing (at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival), his predictable screenplay leaves something to be desired. “Wolf Creek” won’t keep the viewer guessing the plot twists, but is a solidly entertaining two hours...
...aging has just turned the film to vinegar. The greatest failing of Halicki’s supposed masterpiece is the script. A significant amount of dialogue is given as voice-overs during car-chases or while the main characters are repairing stolen vehicles in the auto shop. Thus, the viewer is so focused on the action on-screen that he/she completely ignores the voice-over comments. And yet, even without abundant voice-over, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” would be utterly confusing. The audience is plunged into a network of thirty-something...
...meet on the set of a low-budget Indie film set in California—art imitating life, one assumes. What makes “Tennis, Anyone?” so vapid is its formulaic false dilemma. After shooting the film, the friends promise to call each other; the viewer is immediately shown a giant “One year later” inter-title. At a party, they discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series of charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny somehow manages to lose his gig on a TV show; Gary...