The French musical comedy is considered a cult classic about a princess trying to flee the kingdom with the assistance of her fairy godmother, so she won’t have to marry her dad, the king (played byLa Belle et La Bete’sJean Marais). Yes, you heard that right! There’s a Prince C...
Seasons one through four include one of the best TV romances ever between the immortal Doctor (a Byronic alien Time Lord) and Rose, a young human who brings out the best in him – a bit Jane Eyre/Beauty and the Beast-like if you ask me. Together they travel through time (including to...
with Jeff Bridges as the killer and a pre-Speed Sandra Bullock as the abductee. However, the critics weren't quite so taken with the remake - perhaps because no one should treat our Sandy like that.
For a home movie shot on the fly,Nicklooks pretty good, and there are small pleasures to be had, like the neo-evangelist who shows up at Nick’s door and proceeds to quietly follow Robert around way too closely. (She’s played by another member of the Alex clan, Jennifer.) And it’...
like Yossarian accepting a medal of honor in the nude. And, according to Steven Sorderberg’s DVD commentary, the few segments that Henry invented in the book’s style met with Heller’s approval (“I wish I’d thought of that” was his actual quote about Milo’s chilling final line,...
a skill that the script will play with later. He’s taught that he will die if he goes outside without a gas mask and that the Jesus hanging on the wall spies on him and will tell Mum if he moves from his seat at the table while she’s out. Bubby is abused, but like the chi...
like birds, eggs, and eyes. In general, however, everything shifts with each new location Józef enters, and the means of transition between the sequences holds as much interest as the scenes themselves; the lulling rhythm of the current that bears us along Józef’s stream of dreaming consc...
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Like many psychological thrillers,Jacob’s Ladderstrives to keep the audience disoriented and off-balance, wondering what is real and what is false. The movie achieves this effect wonderfully, but what gives it it’s cachet as a weird movie are two intense hallucination se...
. This volume of hidden signs speaks to two things: that Sam, though intelligent, is probably paranoid and certainly unreliable, and that Mitchell has engineered this seemingly rambling story with incredible precision. Even if you don’t like the movie or its characters, it cannot be denied ...