Being Julia
"A flimsy frame surrounding a brightly colored performance by Annette Bening, whose quick, high-spirited charm is on marvelous display...She gives Being Julia a giddy, reckless effervescence that neither Mr. Szabo's stolid direction nor Ronald Harwood's lurching script...are quite able to match."—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"There are several notable actors in it, most of them quite good, but it's the glorious Annette Bening who hoists this flawed production on her mink-wrapped shoulders and makes it work . . . Her stage background at American Conservatory Theater shows in her multilayered tour de force."—Carla Meyer, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Annette Bening can act - watch American Beauty or Bugsy or The Grifters - but she works too hard to prove it in Being Julia"—Rolling Stone, Peter Travers
updated 2010-07-16 22:51:46
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Rabbit Hole Trailer
The theatrical trailer for Rabbit Hole opens by introducing viewers to Howie an Becca Corbett (played by Eckhart and Kidman). Howie and Becca are attending a grief counseling group, where they're discussing the loss of their only child, Danny. When one grieving couple explains that "God had to take her" because "he needed another angel," Becca asks "Why didn't he just make another angel...he's God, after all."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq73A-tkJLw
As the trailer continues, viewers are given a glimpse into how Becca and Howie are each coping with Danny's death. Becca seems to be both angry and in denial about her child's passing. Howie spends his time watching old videos of his young son. In one scene, Howie remarks that he's "trying to make things nice." Becca responds, "You can't. I'm sorry. Things aren't 'nice' anymore."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq73A-tkJLw
Additional trailer scenes show Becca packing away Danny's toys and giving them to Goodwill and asking her friend Nat, "Does it ever go away?" Nat responds, "No, but at some point it becomes bearable."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq73A-tkJLw
updated 2010-11-01 22:23:39
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Scandal (1950 Film)
"While Scandal is point-blank a hardhitting examination of society's petty fetish with what is scandalous and what is discovered with other people's private lives, the film is much more a humanistic tale of redemption rather than a socially conscious melodrama.''—Francis Cruzhttp://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2006/07/scandal-1950.html
"Like all Kurosawa films, Scandal is motivated by considerations of humanity and justice, but rarely has the director been so witty or even as subversive as the movie must have seemed to thinking Japanese in 1950." Vincent Canby,The New York Times http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E6D71238F935A1575BC0A966948260
updated 2010-07-17 21:12:11
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Great Expectations (1946 Film)
"Lean fills Great Expectations with a wealth of visual detail and vivid characters and personalities... and he directs with a warmth and humor..."—Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Onlinehttp://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=76862&category=Articles
"This is still the definitive version of Charles Dickens' atmospheric and occasionally creepy classic."—David Parkinson, Empire Magazinehttp://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=132903
updated 2010-07-17 06:44:31
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Heart and Souls
- Robert Downey, Jr. as Thomas Reilly
- Charles Grodin as Harrison Winslow
- Alfre Woodard as Penny Washington
- Kyra Sedgwick as Julia
- Tom Sizemore as Milo Peck
- David Paymer as Hal the Bust Driver
- Elisabeth Shue as Anne
updated 2010-10-22 19:36:55
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Cries and Whispers (1973 Film)
"Crying for help in a world they can neither cope with nor comprehend, [Bergman's] characters confront a silent universe inhabited by a God whose attitude is at best uncaring, at worst malignant. How the individual adjusts to his plight remains Bergman's central concern, and in Cries and Whispers he provides a bravado portrait of four women in this barren emotional landscape."&mdashVarietyhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796139.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
"More a rough draft for a Bergman movie than a finished product, this 1972 film promises much and delivers little or nothing."—Don Druker, Chicago Readerhttp://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cries-and-whispers/Film?oid=1073042
"Bergman never made another film this painful. To see it is to touch the extremes of human feeling. It is so personal, so penetrating of privacy, we almost want to look away."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020818/REVIEWS08/208180301/1023
"In order to understand why Cries and Whispers is a great film, it must be experienced, not merely watched."—James Berardinelli, Reelviewshttp://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=859
updated 2010-07-17 02:23:29
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Zorba the Greek
Anthony Quinn as Alexis Zorba
Alan Bates as Basil
Irene Papas as a Widow
Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense
Sotiris Moustakas as Mimithos
updated 2010-07-18 03:22:55
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Inhale Movie
- "'Inhale' is a well-written, shrewdly produced thriller, but the audience for the film -- which centers on an anguished father's (brilliantly played by Dermot Mulroney) desperate journey to save his daughter's life -- might be limited by the uncomfortable subject matter of illegal organ harvesting. 'Inhale' is a most visceral movie, and that includes a few unnecessary sequences in which you get close-ups of a dying child, a shattered leg, a wound being sutured and, finally, human lungs about to be extracted from a still-living being....In this compact 83-minute movie, they more than make their case about the illegal sales of human organs within the genre confines of a tightly wound thriller."—Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter
- "Soberly and responsibly, a small but significant film called Inhale, starring the underrated, charismatic and terrifically accomplished Dermot Mulroney, has arrived without fanfare or big-budget ad campaigns to capture some well-deserved attention."—Rex Reed of The New York Observerhttp://www.observer.com/2010/culture/more-mulroney-please-dermot-mulroney-exceptional-worthy-inhale
- "Everything is boiled down to its basest elements, from the one-note villains to the sub-Traffic color-coding (rotting greens for Mexico; cool blues for the DA’s home; neutral tones for New Mexico government offices). But even with the grungy aesthetics and earnest preaching, Inhale is really nothing but crass topical exploitation, milking this social issue for every salacious drop. The forgotten poor may be the nominal victims here, preyed upon by those in both the halls of power and dingy barroom basements, but it’s ...
updated 2010-10-21 01:18:02
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I Confess (1953 Film)
"A good, workmanlike thriller. . . is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock." Time MagazineCinema: The New Pictures
. . . is short of the suspense one would expect."Variety Staff, VarietyI Confess
