The Mighty Quinn review
13 marzo 2010
“The Mighty Quinn” is a sunny Caribbean caper as giddily seductive as a noteworthy big screen the sauce. It’s guileful, crooked and ocean-salty, a detective story with tropical punch.
Denzel Washington, last seen as Steven Biko in “Cry Freedom,” proves nothing short of adorable as Xavier Quinn — a driven police chief nicknamed “The Mighty” by his disparaging neighbors. But no gumshoe worth his sole has ever been a conformist, and Quinn, island-born and FBI-bred, is no exception. His problem — reconcile the disparate influences while solving a brutal hot-tub murder.
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Somebody made stew of a prominent tourist at a plush island resort, and to Quinn’s chagrin, the prime suspect is his boyhood friend Maubee, a Peter Pan in dreadlocks played by the puckish Robert Townsend. The spineless governor and a calculating resort owner warn Quinn off the case, but convinced that Maubee is being framed, he proceeds with the investigation.
It’s all really just an excuse to tour Jamaica, where the scenic film was shot. Though European-born and schooled, director Carl Schenkel finds a balmy animism, a magical ambience in this verdant production. Neat pastel cottages and polluted juke joints contrast with the antiseptic beauty of the beachside resorts amid the rhythms of reggae.
Schenkel and company in no way stereotype the islanders, but offer an affectionate portrait of their eccentricities. It’s the sort of off-kilter approach that “Local Hero” director Bill Forsyth takes with his Scotsmen — and the occasional mermaid. The characters are mystical, unpredictable, the spirit of the island come to life. And there are the delightful incidentals — Quinn obliged to idle while three old blind gentlemen carrying boogie boxes feel their way across the street to the tune of “I’m a Girl Watcher.”
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Mimi Rogers vie for the hero’s attentions as Quinn’s singer-wife and would-be seductress, respectively. Suffice to say he does what’s right. Folk morality mixes with goofy noir touches in Hampton Fancher’s charming adaptation of A.H.Z. Carr’s novel. With Fancher’s dialogue and Washington’s comedic timing, “The Mighty Quinn” is more fun than a cabana full of bananas.
Judge Dredd Buena Vista Home …
10 marzo 2010
Elegantiae Dredd
Buena Vista Home Recreation
96 mins. · R
Letterboxed · 2.35:1
Subtitles
Spanish
Extras
Ostentatious trailer
Starring
Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Jürgen Prochnov, Max Von Sydow
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Director Danny Cannon created an atmospheric, tight movie that is extremely well paced. Introducing us to the paramount characters, the film quickly breezes through the presentation and sets the outstanding premise. From there on, the motion picture becomes a non-stop thrill tour that takes us to exotic places and confronts us with a variety of fantastic events and characters.
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As you would expect from an action movie like this, the film does not establish much background representing the characters, ascetically giving them enough motivation to set in motion them into done with the scenario. "Judge Dredd" does a very good job with this, and with stars like Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Jürgen Prochnov and Max Von Sydow, the cast is extremely strong to start with.
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Broken English review
5 marzo 2010
Broken English: Romantic comedy. Starring Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud,
Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux and Gena Rowlands. Directed by Zoe Cassavetes.
(PG-13. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
With hope faded for “Sex and the City: The Movie,” the lovelorn and those
perversely entertained by their angst will have to content themselves with
“Broken English,” an intermittently charming but distractingly derivative
romantic comedy. It borrows from the memorable HBO series, creating yet another
30ish sophisticated New Yorker with a stylish wardrobe, man troubles and an
excursion to Paris in her future. The ending is practically a direct steal from
another far more poignant movie romance.
Parker Posey’s fearless performance as Nora, an unsettled and borderline
unhinged Manhattan single, is the best thing about “Broken English” and makes
it worth seeing. Appearing in close-up, sparsely made up, Posey allows Nora’s
anguish to reflect on her angular face. She looks like “before” in an ad for an
antidepressant.
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Nora blames her shortcomings for every date that fizzles, such as the
fix-up who runs into his ex and decides on the spot to go back to her. When he
breaks the news to Nora, it’s the kind of blackly funny moment the film could
use more of. By the time she meets someone with potential — a Frenchman
named Julien played with a marvelously jaunty air by Melvil Poupaud — she’s
developed serious intimacy issues.
Unlike the almost too self-aware Carrie Bradshaw, whose laptop became a
repository for her feelings, Nora is clueless about her own predicament. A
curiosity of Zoe Cassavetes’ half-baked script is the unlikely sources Nora
finds to advise her. She wanders into a chic Parisian bar, and an older man,
instead of hitting on her, philosophizes on how she must find happiness within
herself before she’ll land a man.
You can feel Cassavetes straining to say something about whether mammals
need to be paired up, like on Noah’s Ark. Ultimately “Broken English” offers a
contradictory message. A more critical problem, however, is that this
first-time director comes up short dramatizing her ideas. There’s a lot of
talk, but little action.
As the offspring of indie filmmaking icon John Cassavetes and Gena
Rowlands, she (along with her brother) has gone into the family business.
Parental devotion is the only explanation for Rowlands taking the one-note role
of Nora’s mom, whose scenes consist solely of nagging her daughter to marry
already. What a waste of an incandescent talent.
Zoe takes that adage to write about what you know literally, bestowing on
her characters a laughable number of industry connections. Nora has a fling
with an almost-famous actor (Justin Theroux, humorously capturing the egotism
rampant in the profession). Her best friend (Drea de Matteo, late of “The
Sopranos”) is married to a director whom she suspects of sleeping with his
star. Julien comes to New York from Paris to work on the sound in a movie
starring his actress-girlfriend, who promptly jilts him for her leading man.
“Broken English” doesn’t come fully alive until Julien struts into a
party Nora is about to exit, wearing a jaunty straw hat. He charms her with his
French accent and patter about life being too short not to enjoy, a lesson he
says his father taught him. (In another example of how hastily the script seems
thrown together, Nora makes a big deal of her Sarah Lawrence degree. Yet when
Julien tells her his dad lives in Marseille, she looks at him blankly, as if
she’s never heard of it.)
The title refers not to her inability to understand him — Julien’s
English is nearly perfect — but to a larger problem the sexes have
communicating. “Broken English” doesn’t break any code or offer original
insights on the subject. But there’s a spark whenever Posey and Poupaud are
together, and Paris and Manhattan glisten in the background.
– Advisory: Mild sexual content.
E-mail Ruthe Stein at rstein@sfchronicle.com.
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All cynicism vanishes once “T…
1 marzo 2010
All cynicism vanishes once “Touching the Void,” a docudrama by Oscar-
winning director Kevin Macdonald (”One Day in September”), charts climber Joe
Simpson’s excruciating descent. Real acting replaces re-enacting, and amazing
cinematography pits the limits of human will against the unruliness of nature.
Interviews with Simpson and climbing partner Simon Yates narrate the
action, filmed at the site of the 1985 disaster and in the Alps. The thrills
start on the ascent, as actors Brendan Mackey (as Simpson) and Nicholas Aaron
(as Yates) use the mortal tools of pickaxes and spiked boots to defy gravity
on a sheer, icy face. Overhead shots of tiny figures swallowed by a snowy
landscape underscore the enormity of their struggles.
The calamities occur on descent. Moving ahead of his partner on a rope,
Simpson crushes his leg on a rock. Battling severe wind chill and unstable
snow and ice, Yates valiantly tries to bring his partner down the mountain
using a shorter length of rope. But a second accident prompts him to leave
Simpson, whom he presumes dead.
The moral and ethical implications of Yates’ decision are overwhelmed by
the nasty business of getting Simpson, still alive after falling into a
crevasse, off the mountain. Macdonald’s triumph here is in maintaining
suspense even though we know Simpson will survive.
Spiritual torture melds with physical pain in the crevasse, which the
real Simpson describes as having a “dread feel — they’re not for the living.
” Cinematographer Mike Eley seals the sense of doom with slow, ascending shots
of walls encased in what looks like centuries’ worth of ice. Profound
ingenuity gets Simpson out, but his trials have just started.
Actor Mackey, in a physically demanding role, embodies the climber’s
struggle with grimaces and flashes of fear. We see the nearly ruined man break
down only once, damning the fates. The real Simpson rues the energy he wasted
on his lone fit.
In detailing every misstep — Simpson hops or crawls most of the way –
Macdonald overdoes it at times. We already understand the guy is in trouble
before the 30th time he stands on his broken leg. The most heartbreaking
aspect of the odyssey is the real Simpson’s recollection that he wasn’t
fighting to live but trying to get to base camp so he wouldn’t die alone.
The movie offers scant detail about Simpson and Yates’ relationship
before the disaster, so we don’t know if they were great friends or just
climbing buddies. Simpson, who wrote the best-seller on which the film is
based, has the haunted look of a war veteran. Yates is more elusive, half-
grinning with unease as he tells his part of the saga. Simpson says he has
forgiven his partner for leaving him, but one gets the distinct feeling Yates
has not forgiven himself.
– Advisory: This film contains raw language, disturbing images. — Carla Meyer
‘CATCH THAT KID’
Kids’ caper comedy. Starring Kirsten Kristen Stewart, Max Thieriot,
Jennifer Beals and Sam Robards. Directed by Bart Freundlich. Written by
Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. (PG. 91 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) .
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“Catch That Kid” is a great example of how far films for kids have come
in the last 10 years. Not the plot, certainly, which has holes you could drive
one of the movie’s go-carts through. Or the action, which is basically “Spy
Kids” on a rope.
No, the difference is the hero. She’s a girl. And not one of those
adorable, cute-as-Hilary-Duff girls, either. As Maddy, Kristen Stewart is a
kick-butt, take-no-stuff winner who makes it all happen.
Naturally she has a couple of sidekicks, Gus (Max Thieriot) and Austin
(Corbin Bleu). But as Maddy scales sheer walls and hangs by her fingertips
100 feet off the ground, all the boys can do is stand meekly down below and
call out, “Be careful Maddy!”
When Gus, whose only job is to push buttons that are clearly marked with
numbers 2 inches high, fouls up even that simple task, it is clear that she’s
the only character who can save the day. Not that the guys believe it.
“Don’t do it Maddy!” Gus calls from the safety of the floor. “It’s too
dangerous!”
Right. And thanks for your support.
This is actually a caper film with a history. It began as a straight
remake of a Danish film called “Klatretosen,” which was a sensation in Europe.
Also called “Kletter Ida,” or “Climbing Ida,” it was the story of three
kids who attempt to pull off a bank heist to get money for an experimental
operation for the heroine’s father.
Ida, or Maddy in this case, is an expert climber, just like her dad, but
she’s been ordered not to break out her ropes and climbing shoes because it is
too risky. But guess what? Her climbing skills turn out to be invaluable in
the bank job.
By all accounts, there were two reasons the Danish version was so
successful. First, the actress playing the lead and second, although it was
lighthearted children’s fare, it still had an edge. Well, one out of two isn’t
bad.
Stewart, who was Jodie Foster’s daughter in “Panic Room,” is perfect as
Maddy. She has that Avril Lavigne “girl power” look down. She is buffed enough
to look like she really could climb sheer walls and she even walks like a jock.
There are others on the screen, but this is Stewart’s movie.
As for everything else …
Granted this is a kids’ movie and disbelief must be suspended, but
director Bart Freundlich, whose “The Myth of Fingerprints” was a critical hit
in 1997, never seems to find the tone he wants. For tweens and parents looking
for an entertaining and inoffensive weekend break, this is a perfectly
acceptable choice. Just sit back and don’t overdo the logic thing.
For instance, the kids must break into a money-packed bank vault that is
suspended 100 feet in the air. (Geez, suppose you have to make a withdrawal?)
The security is impenetrable unless you have the special, incredibly secret
access code … which one of the bank employees helpfully types out right in
front of Maddy.
Maddy’s mother (Jennifer Beals) is supposed to be a workaholic who
doesn’t have time to show Maddy how much she cares. But that’s never really
established. It looks more like Maddy is the one with lots of things to do
while Mom is getting chewed out at her job.
And finally, screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (”2 Fast 2
Furious”) have concocted two over-the-top security guards who flop and flail
around in search of a laugh. Forget the edge, they’re going for the banana
cream pie in the face.
There’s nothing terrible about “Catch,” except that it promises a lot
more than it delivers. Much, for example, is made of Gus’ astonishingly smelly
socks. Surely, you think, that will be a part of a last-second plot twist,
perhaps to disable the menacing attack dogs. Nope. It turns out Gus just has
smelly feet. And what started out with the feel of a tight little kids’
thriller turns into a Nickelodeon afternoon movie.
– Advisory: Mild offensive language, mostly tame PG action. — C.W. Nevius
‘SECRET THINGS’
Erotic thriller. Starring Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont
and Fabrice Deville. Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. (Not rated. 115 minutes.
In French with English subtitles. At Bay Area theaters.).
Like most French films, “Secret Things” begins with a scene of a
beautiful woman masturbating. But “Secret Things” goes beyond most French
films. It soon tops this with a scene of another beautiful woman masturbating,
and quickly trumps that with a scene, set in the Paris subway, in which the
two heroines help each other masturbate. Ten whole minutes go by before the
next masturbation scene, but it’s a good one. Later, one of the ladies seduces
a man by masturbating at her desk at work.
Thus, once again, a movie takes a subject of seemingly endless
fascination and wears it out through repetition.
An erotic thriller, “Secret Things” aspires to the intrigue and moral
complexity of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” but it plays rather like a
humorless version of Barbara Stanwyck’s tongue-in-cheek classic, “Baby Face”
(1933). Two pretty but powerless young women decide to use their wiles to
climb their way to wealth and position. As the exotic Nathalie (Coralie Revel)
tells Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou), an innocent who catches on fast, the key to
driving a man crazy is in being emotionally disengaged but sexually
adventurous. “Every time you hesitate, dare yourself to go a little further,”
she tells her.
Both women get jobs at a Parisian bank, and each proceeds to try to throw
a lasso over some poor schnook’s head. We follow Sandrine, as she goes after a
powerful company manager (Roger Mirmont), who is 50 and married but just can’t
resist. These scenes are psychologically interesting and rather touching, in
that both participants seem lost. He’s in over his head, blindly in love,
while she sits, observing herself at a remove, wondering why she used her
allure in this way and what she expects to get from it.
Writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau numbs the audience with sex and
nudity and then expects us to take it seriously when he has overwrought
choruses singing during selected, supposedly pivotal, sexual encounters. By
the time Brisseau introduces the big boss — the young heir (Fabrice
Deville), who is presented as something very near the devil himself —
“Secret Things” has skidded into absurdity, but it never quite gets boring.
Movies like this rarely are.
– Advisory: This film contains full frontal nudity, multiple sexual
encounters and physical violence.– Mick LaSalle
Spike Lee brings the life of …
28 febbraio 2010
Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the grand small screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Bit, son of a Nebraska minister, on May 19, 1925, he became one of the most militant leaders and charismatic spokesmen of the black enfranchising movement before his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in Unknown York Diocese on February 21, 1965. The film sweeps through his early life as a small-time hustler and thief with his crony Shorty (Lee), his conversion to Islam in reform school, and his ensuing life as a litigious spiritual leader and husband of Betty Shabazz (Angela Bassett). Malcolm’s tragical assassination is presented as a conspiracy of Domain of Islam leaders; the glaze shows how his self-possession has been realized in the lives of others who have been moved by his words. Filmed with great visual elegance by Lee, the flick is a work of entertainment as much as it is a historical artifact. Washington captures the religious conversion of the hero with a sincerity that is entirely as believable and ultimately unfixed as it was in the soft-cover that inspired the film, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.
Ministry of Fear review
26 febbraio 2010
Forget the phony studio settings and the script’s hesitancies in adapting Graham Greene’s unusual about a case hunt in wartime London. This is a wonderfully atmospheric, almost expressionistic thriller, packed with remarkable moments: the jolly village fête ominously taking chair at night; the open door of the railroad carriage and the muted tapping which heralds the arrival of the unaffected man out of a cloud of steam; the rat-like tailor using an enormous pair of cutting-shears to dial his call of warning moments before they are found plunged into his stomach. And right from the crack space launch of Milland waiting alone in a darkened abide as far as something the stroke of midnight – the magic hour which determination come out with him from one paranoiac nightmare (the mercy mass murder of his wife) into another – Lang sets his characteristic seal of fatality on the action.
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24 febbraio 2010
The Rancho Carne High football team suck but their esteemed Toros cheerleaders are five-beforehand nationwide champs. When a feisty new member (Eliza Dushku) shows team captain (Kirsten Dunst) that their routines are copied from a next to all-unconscionable cheerleading team, it leads to desperate measures before the Nationals.
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