Starring:
Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Review:
Just looking at hangdog Steve Buscemi and perky Sarah Silverman
as mismatched lovers is a kick. What a comedy team these two
virtuosos of the comically perverse could have made if they weren?t
stuck in the shambles that is Saint John of Las Vegas.
First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no
discernible […]

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Starring:
Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill
Review:
For its first stingingly funny half hour, The Invention of
Lying had me thinking that Ricky Gervais had finally found a
way to bring his indisputable brilliance at TV comedy (The
Office, Extras) to the big screen. Then the air went
out of the balloon. What a shame. Set in […]

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Starring:
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Review:
Does everything work in this mind-bender from Charlie Kaufman,
the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich,
Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind? No way. Synecdoche, New York is exhilarating
and exasperating in equal doses. But Kaufman, making his directing
debut, is focused on something you don’t find at multiplexes
overrun with chihuahuas and violent escapism: That […]

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Starring:
Josh Brolin
Review:
Toss professionally incendiary Director Oliver Stone in the
biopic ring with the worst president in U.S. history, and you
rightly expect something more than a walk on the mild side. Josh
Brolin is truly electrifying in the role of George W. Bush, from
fuck-up son of privilege to fuck-up commander in chief, but Stone
and Wall Street […]

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Starring:
Aaron Eckhart, Summer Bishil
Review:
Yes, that Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of
American Beauty, the creator of HBO’s Six Feet
Under and now True Blood, a sizzling new series about
contemporary vampires getting by on synthetic red stuff. Ball,
bless him, goes for the real jugular. Towelhead, adapted
from Alicia Erian’s novel, is Ball’s debut as a feature director.
And […]

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