Steven Soderbergh's Traffic is a great film about the far-reaching tendrils of the South American drug trade, but Ted Demme's Blow is an even greater one. Traffic contains a false moment, when the rich white kid suddenly becomes a fount of enlightenment and bemoans the behavior of rich, white drug users ...
There is something fascinating about con artists. They are almost always charming, and even when they rip you off there is a certain skill involved that begs professional respect. In David Mirkin's Heartbreakers, Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play a mother and daughter team who swindle men ...
Mel Brooks once said something to the effect that if he tripped on a banana peel, that wasn't comedy, but if he tripped on a banana peel and fell into an open sewer and died, that was comedy. After seeing Say It Isn't So, I felt as if I had walked into an open sewer, but I wasn't laughing much. There ...
If you are thinking Monkeybone is the kind of film with a title that lends itself to double entendres about the male anatomy, you are a) correct and b) probably too sophisticated to enjoy the movie anyway. Then again, even if you're reading this review during a commercial break from Hee-Haw, prepare ...
