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Deconstructionist Western
Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan discuss their rugged Western Seraphim Falls.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
01-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Von Ancken, Seraphim Falls
Riot Girrl Werewolf
Based on a novel by Annette Curtis Klause, with a title pulled from Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, Von Garnier uses Bucharest as a vibrant backdrop for yet another predictable werewolf movie, albeit with a slight twist.
Penthouse Bloodbath
Carnahan makes an overreaching but inspired effort at reinventing the dumb gangsters with big guns motif that Quentin Tarantino created and continues to modify.
Tags: Joe Carnahan, Smokin' Aces
The Banality of Evil
Nick Cassavetes tells the tale of Jesse James Hollywood.
Tags: Alpha Dog, Nick Cassavetes
Clubfooted Indoctrination
"Stepping” gets trotted out as one more dance craze.
Tags: Stomp The Yard, Sylvain White
Relishing the Horrors of Childhood
Pan's Labyrinth is a surreal and dark fairytale about resistance and sacrifice from the point of view of a resourceful young child.
A Bright Light on the CIA
Robert De Niro's second outing as director pinpoints the ruthless and dogmatic sense of privileged ideology and unscrupulous secrecy that enabled the creation of the CIA.
Tags: Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd
Forming an Inseparable Epic
Letters responds to Flags and creates pure cinematic poetry.
Playing a 'Good German'
Over the past ten years Cate Blanchett has made increasingly daring acting choices that have elevated her to a status of this generation’s Meryl Streep.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
12-11-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Good German
Will Smith Takes His Son Slumming
From the looks of Will Smith's downtrodden character in The Pursuit of Happyness, the only place for the capable actor's career to go is down.
Antihero: DiCaprio Just Gets Better
Volatile intrigue abounds in this politicized story about South African arms dealer and diamond smuggler and a former diamond mine captive desperate to reunite with his family.
Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick
Down Under the Influence
Heath Ledger talks about his latest film Candy, in which he plays a young man torn between his love of heroin and his equally addicted girlfriend (Abbie Cornish).
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
11-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: candy, Neil Armfield
Welcome to the Jungle
Tapping into a vein of horror movies with American travelers as preyed, Turistas is the first U.S. film shot entirely in Brazil.
Tags: John Stockwell, Turistas
On Arbus
Director Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus is an anti-biopic that dares to read between the lines of its subject's life.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
'The Fountain' Is Just a Dying Tree
Metaphysical space age imaginings counter the death of a loved one in writer/director Darren Aronofsky's visually stunning yet superficial fantasy.
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
