Dazed and Confused
Synopsis: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused eavesdrops […]
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Stand by Me
Synopsis: In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends — sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough-guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O’Connell) — […]
Across the Universe
Synopsis: Across The Universe from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines American in the turbulent late 1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at […]
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan, by Zeb Wells and Seth Fisher 8.25 ‘Big in Japan!’ is a book that I picked up from my local library’s bookstore as a […]
Smokey and the Bandit
Synopsis: Reynolds is the Bandit, a king-of-the-road trucker hero who accepts the ultimate challenge: pick up a truckload of Coors beer in Texarkana–the closest place it can be legally sold–and […]
Rubber
Synopsis: Careful where you tread. Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert […]
Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil
Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil, by Jeff Smith 6.75 I’ve only read a little bit of ‘Bone’. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t grab me like it did some […]
Pierre Richard: Portrait d’un rêveur
Synopsis: At once actor, writer, director and producer, for over twenty years Pierre Richard has played a central role in French comedies. Associated with some of the biggest hits of […]
The Descendants
Synopsis: From the celebrated director of Sideways (Alexander Payne) comes a wonderfully warm and witty film that Rolling Stone calls “damn near perfect.” Academy Award winner “George Clooney leads the […]
Trekkies
Synopsis: A hilarious look at the universe’s most fervent fans. Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate […]
On peut toujours rêver
Synopsis: Media mogul, leader of industry and high finance, Charles de Boislevé, nicknamed “the Emperor” by the press, is worn and tired of exercising power. Isolated from his family, who […]
Another Thin Man
Synopsis: Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They’re just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional bon vivants Nick and Nora Charles. And now there’s a […]
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Synopsis: In this rural comedy Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to his brother’s farm in Britanny to save it from a hostile takeover by […]
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