With Broken Flowers, Director Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes) shows us again that less can sometimes be much more. Bill Murray plays an aging bachelor named Don Johnston who is drifting through life, not really knowing where he’s been or where he’s going. After his latest relationship with […]
2005
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Writer-Director Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) is a dark comedy with a strong noir edge about a murder mystery being pursued by a gay private investigator, a thief mistaken as an actor and his childhood love interest. Though this movie may be enjoyable to the casual audience, it […]
The basic plot of The Descent (2005) is as follows: A group of women (Natalie Mendoza, Shauna MacDonald, Alex Reid, Nora Jane Noone) go on an annual extreme outing. The expedition leads them on a spelunking trip into an unnamed cave. What begins as an incredibly tense and claustrophobic trip […]
Sin City is based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Artist Frank Miller. Miller is most famous for Sin City but has done other stories like The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and Hard Boiled (unrelated to the John Woo film). I saw the movie before I […]
In 1974 films like Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather Part II and Roman Polanski‘s Chinatown were big hits at the box office but you also had films like Jack Hill’s Blaxploitation film Foxy Brown blasting out onto the screens of Drive ins and Grindhouses. There was definitely a big change […]