Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 20th, 2004
The Whole Nine Yards was a pretty funny film. It wasn’t outstanding. It wasn’t classic cinema. It certainly didn’t cry out for a sequel. The Whole Ten Yards goes one yard too far. Most of the original cast is back, but the film has no life. Even the laughs are forced. By now the novelty of the characters has long since worn thin. Bruce Willis seems to be acting for acting’s sake. The mood swings and unnecessary facial exaggerations seem to provide Willis with some distraction from how empty the rest of the film is. I...think he watched DeNiro in Analyze This or Analyze That too long. Amanda Peet’s assassin wannabe whining is no longer cute. It’s just annoying. Matthew Perry might be soon yearning for his Friends days if this is anywhere near his best film attempt.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 20th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 17th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 17th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 15th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 15th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 7th, 2004
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Let’s start with the two biggest titles in the collection, which have a life outside thiscollection. North by Northwest is arguably Hitchcock’s greatest exercise in sheer roller-coaster thriller entertainment. As in so many of the director’s films, an insane chain of eventsis set in motion by the smallest of actions, in this case Cary Grant signalling a bell boy just asthe latter is calling out a name. Grant is thus misidentified by the villains, and he is suddenlyrunning fo... his life with no idea why people are trying to kill him. The crop-duster scene is oneof the most famous in all of Hitchcock’s oeuvre.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 3rd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 27th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 20th, 2004
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