Month: December 2003

The Last Samurai (review)

Behold the Prestige Picture(TM), the moviegoing experience that lets people who don’t want to be surprised at the movies feel like they’re seeing an Important Film about important things like Honor and Respect and Love and War and Poetry and History.

Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty and Duty (review)

My, how our Horatio has grown! Only a green midshipman when we first met him, he’s now captain of his own ship, the sloop *Hotspur* of His Majesty’s Navy, battling the French on the high seas in a bid to bring down the treacherous Bonaparte. If it sounds a bit like *Master and Commander,* well, that’s because Hornblower and Aubrey are contemporaries fighting the same war and the same Old Boney, and if the thought of the possibility of Ioan Gruffudd and Russell Crowe together on the same ship in those snappy uniforms and wielding swords and buckling swash is simply too delicious, then you, my friend, are not alone.

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The Triplets of Belleville (review)

You simply can’t imagine how weird and wonderful and lovely this film is. I can go on and on about its odd beauty, how it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen and at the same time like a recurring dream you can always just barely remember when you wake up, and still you’ll be astonished by it. Because words fail. *The Triplets of Belleville* must be experienced. I could not truly convey what it’s like to laze in its saucy, sweet otherworldliness if I sat here for hours trying to find a precise turn of phrase.