| I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD] |
In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the government touched off a firestorm that caused I Am Curious—Yellow to become one the final straws ...
|
| I Am Curious—Yellow (Jag är nyfiken—en film i gult) [DVD] |
In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the government touched off a firestorm that caused I Am Curious—Yellow to become one the final straws ...
|
| I Am Legend |
We are introduced to Robert Neville (Will Smith), who is apparently the only human being left on Earth. A former Army scientist, he lives in Manhattan with a faithful German shepherd named Sam. ...
|
| I Am Sam |
"I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is," declared the titular simpleton of Forrest Gump (1994), and director/cowriter Jessie Nelson seems to have taken that line and decided to ...
|
| I Bury the Living [DVD] |
I Bury the Living is a corker of a horror-thriller that draws you in, but ultimately lets you down with an “explanatory” ending that just doesn’t fit. Made quickly on a ...
|
| I Dreamed of Africa |
Playing real-life conservationist Kuki Gallmann in "I Dreamed of Africa" is Kim Basinger's first role since winning the 1997 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "L.A. Confidential." Following up an ...
|
| I Heart Huckabees |
Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), long-haired and unshaven, plays Albert Markovski, a young environmentalist who experiences a series of odd, but probably meaningless coincidences that propel him ...
|
| I Know What You Did Last Summer |
The story takes place in a small, North Carolina fishing town. A group of four high school friends, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), her boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Helen (Sarah Michelle ...
|
| I Know Where I'm Going! [DVD] |
"I know where I'm going!" declares the headstrong protagonist Joan Webster (Wendy
Hiller). And she does. At only 25, she knows exactly where she's going as she heads off to
an isolated island off ...
|
| I Love You, Man [Blu-Ray] |
Dropping the snarky sarcasm and deep-rooted cynicism that he displayed so aptly in Role Models (2008), Paul Rudd disappears into metrosexual cashmere sweaters and slim-fit chinos as Peter ...
|
| I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry |
Larry is a widower who still pines away for his wife; Chuck, on the other hand, is a sex-obsessed lothario in gold chains and a heavy Brooklyn accent, a role that Sandler pulls off fairly well ...
|
| I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) [DVD] |
Part of being an adult is admitting when you’re wrong, which is what I plan to do here. Simply put, my original assessment of Meir Zarchi’s rape-revenge film I Spit On Your Grave, which I ...
|
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
The third, and worst of the sequels, is exemplified by the recently released "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Most slasher sequels are of this breed--the kind of sequel that exists for no ...
|
| I, Robot [DVD] |
As we quickly learn, robots have become a staple item of the near future (the movie takes place in 2035), being churned out like personal computers by massive corporations to take care of regular ...
|
| I, The Jury |
The movie starts off with a bang: a howler of an opening credits sequence that is a cheap steal from the James Bond series, complete with cheesy graphics and an overbearing jazz score by Bill Conti ...
|
| Ice Age |
Not surprisingly, the majority of Ice Age is not nearly as funny as its already-legendary opening, which depicts a tiny, long-nosed Scrat—a fictional prehistoric cross between a squirrel ...
|
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [Blu-Ray] |
As in the previous two installments, Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), the heroes of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs are an odd assortment that have come together ...
|
| Ice Age: The Meltdown [DVD] |
Unfortunately, Ice Age: The Meltdown is not a particularly good movie, despite having more refined and detailed animation than the first Ice Age and at least one semi-brilliant gag in ...
|
| Identity |
Identity, which takes place over one perpetually rainy night, is essentially a reworked version of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, in which 10 strangers find themselves stranded ...
|
| Idiocracy [DVD] |
Fertility, in fact, is the problem in Idiocracy, and the film immediately takes off by imagining how a population of low-IQ dimwits could emerge by paralleling the lives of a ...
|
| Idle Hands |
Some 12 years ago, Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" (1987) featured a
hilarious sequence in which the hero's right hand became possessed by an
evil spirit, forcing him to cut off the ...
|
| Idlewild |
The movie stars the two members of OutKast, André Benjamin and Antwan A. Patton (a.k.a. Big Boi) as two unlikely friends. Benjamin’s Percival is a quiet musician who has grown up straight and ...
|
| Ikiru [DVD] |
Inspired by both Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and thoughts about his own mortality, Akira Kurosawa’s evocative and deeply moving Ikiru is about a middle-aged man whose learning ...
|
| Impostor |
If Impostor feels like a good idea for a short film awkwardly blown up to feature-length proportions, it's because that is exactly what it ...
|
| In America |
There are so many ways in which Jim Sheridan’s In America could have gone wrong. The intensely personal story of an Irish immigrant family trying to make it in New York City against all ...
|
| In Dreams |
Jordan and cinematographer Darius Khondji ("Seven") turn this submerged ghost town into a haunting visual that is far better than the movie wrapped around it. The opening credits are set against ...
|
| In Good Company |
At its heart, In Good Company is a generation-gap comedy, pitting wily baby boomers against the youthful up-and-comers who have aged too quickly and learned too little in the process. The ...
|
| In the Bedroom |
(Note that, in order to fully discuss the details of this film, certain plot elements must be revealed. If you have not seen the film and do not want to know the specifics of what happens, go see it ...
|
| In the Company of Men |
At the core of the story are two men, Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy), both rising business executives who have been shipped to their company's Midwest branch for six weeks to complete ...
|
| In the Cut |
The victims of the serial killer in Jane Campion’s revisionist thriller In the Cut are described by one character as being “disarticulated,” which is a word that precisely describes the ...
|
| In the Heat of the Night [DVD] |
Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night was released in 1967, the height of
the Civil Rights movement and one of the most violent years in modern American history
(between 1967 and 1968, ...
|
| In the Mood for Love (Hua yang nian hua) [DVD] |
Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (Hua yang nian hua) is an elegant, poetic exploration of romantic yearning, repressed emotions, and the age-old conflict between tradition-bound ...
|
| In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida) [DVD] |
The narrative takes off from a shocking, highly mediated incident that took place in Japan in 1936 in which a prostitute asphyxiated her lover and then cut off his penis and genitals and carried ...
|
| In the Valley of Elah |
Tommy Lee Jones stars as Hank Deerfield, a retired military man and Vietnam veteran who hauls gravel for a living. Hank is clearly intended to represent all those quiet, determined, red-state ...
|
| Inception |
It is not surprising that Nolan has made a film almost entirely about and within dreams, since all of his previous films have played with the concept of self-delusion, and what are dreams but ...
|
| Indecent Proposal [DVD] |
Everyone knows that this is the movie that involves the million-dollar question, the indecent proposal of the title. It comes from billionaire John Gage (Robert Redford), who propositions ...
|
| Independence Day [DVD] |
"Independence Day" is a movie that piles one astounding image on top of another. Whether that be a 15-mile-wide alien spaceship destroying the White House in the film's most memorable scene of ...
|
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Blu-Ray] |
Yet, here we are 19 years later with a new entry, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which picks up Dr. Jones’s life two decades after the last installment. Little has ...
|
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Adventure Collection) [DVD] |
Like he did with the original Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which followed directly on the heels of 1941 (1979), a disastrous foray in big-budget comedy, Spielberg was returning to ...
|
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Adventure Collection) [DVD] |
Made three years after the smash-hit Raiders of the Lost Ark, an exuberant reimagining of ’40s-era Saturday cliffhanging serials, Temple of Doom had a load of expectations riding on ...
|
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [DVD] |
According to George Lucas in a recent interview with Premiere magazine, “I was going through a divorce and was not in a very good mood, and so it turned out a lot darker than probably it ...
|
| Inferno [DVD] |
Inferno is considered by many enthusiasts to be the masterpiece of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. It certainly bears all of Argento's most notable trademarks, particularly the ...
|
| Inglourious Basterds [Blu-Ray] |
For starters, the “basterds” of the title are not the main focus of the film. These Jewish-American soldiers who are recruited solely to wage a grisly guerilla war against the Nazis in France by ...
|
| Inherit the Wind [DVD] |
All the names were changed, but the events depicted in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind were based on one of the most spectacular court battles of the first half of the 20th century. The ...
|
| Inside Deep Throat |
Although it is hard to imagine now, there was a period in the early 1970s when hard-core pornographic features were threatening to become a regular part of the mainstream film industry. This was a ...
|
| Inside Man |
The film pits Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, a resolutely self-assured robber whose small team has taken over a Wall Street bank, against Denzel Washington (in his sixth collaboration with Lee) as ...
|
| Insomnia |
Like the original, Christopher Nolan's remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 Norwegian thriller Insomnia is less of a police procedural than it is a morality play. Pitting a seasoned police ...
|
| Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui) [DVD] |
Sadako has much in common with Rui, the much-abused but infinitely adaptable heroine of The Insect Woman (1963), Imamura’s previous film. Like Rui, Sadako comes from the country and has a ...
|
| Into the Wild [Blu-Ray] |
In this sense, it is not surprising that Penn was immediately drawn to Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book Into the Wild, which chronicles the true life story of Christopher McCandless, a 1990 ...
|
| Into the Wild [DVD] |
In this sense, it is not surprising that Penn was immediately drawn to Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book Into the Wild, which chronicles the true life story of Christopher McCandless, a 1990 ...
|
| Intolerable Cruelty |
Intolerable Cruelty is the first Coen Brothers movie that doesn’t really feel like a Coen Brothers movie. Most of their signature elements are there—exaggerated characters, witty ...
|
| Inventing the Abbotts |
In Pat O'Connor's "Inventing the Abbotts," the Abbotts are the center of the small town of Haley, Illinois in the mid-fifties. From the outside, their house and trimmed green lawns are the essence of ...
|
| Invictus |
Based on former London Independent journalist John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation, Invictus uses the well-worn structure of ...
|
| Iron Man 2 |
Thus, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 has quite a bit to live up to, and to say that it fails to join the ranks of great second efforts should not diminish its enjoyment factor. Favreau and ...
|
| Iron Man [Blu-Ray] |
Casting Robert Downey Jr. It seemed like an odd choice when it was first announced that Downey Jr. was being hired to play a superhero, but only to those who weren’t familiar with Tony ...
|
| Is Anybody There? |
The center of the film is held by the unlikely (except in movies like this one) relationship between the caretakers’ 11-year-old son, Edward (Bill Milner), and the home’s newest resident, an ...
|
| It All Starts Today (Ça commence aujourd'hui) |
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "Try the rough water as well as the smooth. Rough
water can teach lessons worth ...
|
| It Came From Outer Space [DVD] |
The "it" in It Came From Outer Space is a meteor-shaped spaceship that crashes in the desert outside a small community in Arizona. Actually, the spaceship crashes twice on-screen, once within ...
|
| It Happened One Night [DVD] |
Like the best romantic comedies, It Happened One Night is fueled primarily by the interaction between its two leads--not only their comedic bantering, but also the slow burn that melts away ...
|
| It's a Wonderful Life [DVD] |
Quite appropriately, the movie started as a Christmas card. In the early 1940s, writer Philip Van Doren Stern penned a short story called “The Greatest Gift,” which he printed on 200 holiday ...
|
| It's Complicated |
Copious depictions of wealth are, of course, nothing new to American cinema; in fact, one of the primary reasons audiences turned out for movies during the Depression was to watch Fred Astaire and ...
|
| Ivan the Terrible Part I / Part II [DVD] |
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that we "explain the past only by what is
most powerful in the present." The same is also true in reverse, that we explain the present
only by what is ...
|
| Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD] |
Ivan's Childhood was one of a number of important films made in the Soviet Union during the “thaw” of the late 1950s and early 1960s in which filmmakers and other artists were allowed to ...
|
