Phillipe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the two World Trade Center towers is chronicled in this fascinating documentary, Man on Wire. Man on Wire shows us the years that Phillippe Petit trained as a young teenager.
It shows footage of Petit’s walk between the Sydney Harbour Bridge and you see from the get-go that he’s very, [...]
Rainn Wilson of TV show The Office shows his drumming skills in ‘The Rocker’. Back in 2003, I saw a little movie called School of Rock. It starred Jack Black and it was about a wannabe rockstar using kids to fulfill his dreams. It was great, funny, and clever. A couple of days ago, I [...]
2008 is probably the best summer in film ever. It’s had the awesomeness of Iron Man and The Dark Knight, the hilarity of Tropic Thunder, the animated classics Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E, and the disappointment of Narnia and the Love Guru.
And the sheer awfulness of Camp Rock.
Anyway, I will hand out the First Annual [...]
Ben Stiller sends up Hollywood relentlessly in the funniest movie in a very long time - in Tropic Thunder! The send-up here is egoistical actors and of course, Mother Hollywood. It’s really fascinating actually, to see such a clever and witty send-up of Hollywood - that could only be a product of Hollywood.
It starts with [...]
Hellboy, perhaps the most unlikely superhero around is back, and where the original bored mostly, this moves along at a brisk pace, entertains, and fascinates. With this, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and The Dark Knight (sorry folks, I didn’t like Hancock), 2008 is shaping up to be the best year ever for superhero movies. [...]
Journey to the Center of the Earth is the kind of movie that on terms of acting and plot, normally it’s so terrible and contrived one would never see it. In fact, I’d never see Journey to the Center of the Earth. No, but I would most definitely see Journey to the Center of the [...]