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This is not your father’s Civil War movie. It’s more like your father’s Vietnam movie. Morally complicated and frequently disquieting, Ride with the Devil is an intelligent and moving reexamination of the Civil War from the point of view of cultural Southerners living on the western frontier of the United States.
As everyone who loves Planes, Trains and Automobiles knows: Wrong. One of the few movies set around Thanksgiving, it was bound to become a perennial favorite — and the fact that this is probably 80’s teen-movie king John Hughes’s most adult movie certainly helped it become an instant classic. It’s the pathos under the boisterous, noisy comedy that helps fuel its continuing popularity today.
Beautifully written by W.D. Richter and directed with a sure hand by Jodie Foster, Home for the Holidays wraps all those contradictory feelings up and serves them for Thanksgiving dinner. Perhaps the most realistic holiday movie I’ve ever seen, this oddly charming, poignant, and blackly funny film is a treasure not to be missed.
Sleepy Hollow is only loosely based on Washington Irving’s famous tale, but the liberties that Burton and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker take serve to make the story more than a simple and effective spookfest, exposing fears and anxieties we — and, in particular, men — still share in common with our counterparts two hundred years ago.
Like The 13th Warrior, Ravenous is one of those bizarre little genre movies that appeals only to a small minority of twisted freaks — like me. What can I say? I’m weird.
Already an historical document, capturing the brief, heady time during which this new medium was charted and explored by online pioneers. But that was incidental to Block’s overt intention, which was to look at how the Web has altered and continues to alter the art of human interaction. The result is fascinating, funny, and often disturbing.
Imagine these two young Xers, Aleksandar Popovski and Darko Mitrevski. They grew up in Macedonia, but it could have been anywhere. They read a lot of comic books as kids, I’m sure, and watched a lot of science fiction movies. And. I imagine, one day they said to each other, Hey, we could do that. And the result is Goodbye, 20th Century!
For while Dogma is without doubt critical of organized religions — and the Catholic Church in particular — it is also one of the most religious movies ever made, a psalm to faith imbued with a wonder and awe of God and all of God’s creation… if you believe in that kind of thing. And even if you don’t, Smith’s own deep belief (he is a practicing Catholic), overflowing from the screen, is more than enough to sweep you in and keep you enthralled for a couple hours.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc isn’t really bad, but, alas, it isn’t really good either. It desperately wants to be a French Braveheart, but director Luc Besson is no Mel Gibson. And neither is star Milla Jovovich.
The Silence of the Lambs is one of the most effective thrillers ever made (and the only film of its kind ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture). As often as it’s imitated, no movie has come close to replicating the intensity, the dread, and the feeling that the viewer is in the company of evil… until now. I’m not referring to The Bone Collector, despite what some people are saying. I’m talking about a little independent film called Oxygen.
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