Sunday, February 29, 2004

House Of Sand And Fog

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* * ½ (out of four) Seen 27 February 2004 at the Arlington Capitol #2 (second-run) It's sad to see good performances in service of...

Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House

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* * (out of four) Seen 26 February in Jay's Living Room (WGBX) I remember really enjoying The Money Pit when I was a kid, but tha...
Saturday, February 28, 2004

Mystic River

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* * * ½ (out of four) Seen 23 February 2004 at AMC Fenway #11 (awards re-release) Clint Eastwood is one of those directors whose princ...

Millennium Mambo (Qianxi manbo)

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* * ¾ (out of four) Seen 22 February 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Sunday Eye-Opener) Film discussion groups are wonderful things. Why, ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2004

SF/29: The 29th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival

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All films seen 15-16 February 2004 at Dedham Community Theater After a mere three or four marathons, I think I'm getting too old for th...
Sunday, February 22, 2004

The Lion King 1½

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* * * (out of four) Seen 13 February 2004 in Jay's Living Room (video premiere) Don't tell anybody, but I'm not a particu...
Monday, February 09, 2004

Dark Passage

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* * ½ (out of four) Seen 8 January 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Bogie & Bacall weekend) Of the four Bogie and Bacall pairings, thi...

An Amazing Couple (Un couple épatant)

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* * ¼ (out of four) Seen 8 February 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Sunday Eye-Opener) Though was is the first part of Lucas Belvaux'...

The Haunted Cop Shop II (Meng gui xue tang)

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* * * (out of four) Seen 7 February 2004 at Coolidge Corner #2 (Midnight Kung Fu Madness) It's good to know that respected filmmak...

The Company

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* * * ½ (out of four) Seen 7 February 2004 at Coolidge Corner #2 (first-run) The Company is something of an odd film. It has a star ...
Saturday, February 07, 2004

Cold Mountain

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* * ¾ (out of four) Seen 5 February 2004 at AMC Fenway #5 (first-run) Unlike with his previous two films ( The English Patient and Th...

High Sierra

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* * * ¼ (out of four) Seen 3 February 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of) Cynicism goes ...

The Desperate Hours

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* * * ¼ (our of four) Seen 3 February 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff THat Dreams Are Made Of) This is a quali...
Monday, February 02, 2004

Tom Dowd & The Language Of Music

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* * ½ (out of four) Seen 1 February 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Sunday Eye-Opener, projected video) I wonder if my brother Dan, or hi...

A Life Of Ninja (Miu meng yan che)

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* * ¾ (out of four) Seen 30 January 2004 at Coolidge Corner #2 (Midnight Kung Fu Madness) Ninjas are fun. They're like the Freema...
Thursday, January 29, 2004

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

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* * * ¼ (out of four) Seen 28 January 2004 at AMC Fenway #12 (first-run) It's me. I know it's me. It must be. I seem to be ...

Beat The Devil

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* * * ½ (out of four) Seen 27 January at the Brattle Theater (Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of) Heh. The Brattle li...

In A Lonely Place

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* * * (out of four) Seen 26 January 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of) I love movies tha...

REVIEW: Dead Reckoning

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* * (out of four) Seen 26 January 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of) The next time someo...
Tuesday, January 27, 2004

REVIEW: The Agronomist

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* * * (out of four) Seen 25 January 2004 at the Brattle Theater (Sunday Eye-Opener) ThinkFilm will be releasing Johnathan Demme's ...