The Game is my FAVORITE film by David Fincher. I’m not saying it’s his BEST (between Seven and Zodiac I’m still undecided), but make no mistake, the one I keep coming back to the most over the years is this underrated 1997 effort, which coming two years after Seven, seemed like the next logical step…
First it was Baywatch and now it’s The Mummy feeling the wrath of the sharp tongued critics so off I went to my local cinema with an open mind and actually rather excited about seeing a Universal Monsters movie as it’s been so long since i’ve seen one. The Mummy kicks off the brand new…
Many people seem to love to hate David Fincher’s divisive, Oscar-baiting epic The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I’m definitely not in that group. This is a ravishing movie, filled with more emotion and heart than any previous Fincher film and any Fincher film to come after. Yes, the heart that beats all throughout…
David Fincher’s apocalyptic, hysterical, and blood-soaked satire of male (wish) fulfillment Fight Club escaped into theaters in 1999, and yet its message still rings loud and clear: F**K THE MAN. And make no mistake – this film literally escaped. How did they ACTUALLY get away with all of the stuff in this movie? I’m not…
If you’ve ever lived with a friend, rented out your spare room or suffered living with your parents into your twenties, then you’ll be aware that there are many every day occurrences that can cause friction between you and your housemates. I use the term “mate” loosely here, so from hereon in I shall use…
I was 12 years old when my father took me to see David Fincher’s Alien 3 on opening night, totally unaware of the behind the scenes fiasco that had occurred during production, and that’s probably why I’ve always enjoyed it more than most. I still think that, for all the documented issues that befell this…
Macaulay Culkin the star of some of the coolest movies of my childhood including Home Alone, Richie Rich and My Girl was the powerhouse of his generation. From child superstar to quite a downhill spiral as time went on, we take a look and ask ourselves. What happened to Macaulay Culkin? Born in New York…
I expect more from David Fincher than remakes of airport novels, but even when he’s “slumming,” the end-result can be fascinating and visually striking. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had of course become a smash-hit in both book and film form in its home country of Sweden, but that meant nothing to the Hollywood…
When I first heard that David Fincher would be directing a film about the formation of Facebook, my initial response, as was likely the same response from many others, was one of befuddlement. Why would this exquisitely talented filmmaker spend his time telling a story about a relatively young social media empire? What’s so…
Tonight’s super-shitty and yet super-awesome feature presentation. This film CHANGED MY LIFE when I was six years old. Released in theaters for about two hours in 1985, My Science Project became a tremendous point of obsession for me during the VHS revolution, as I introduced this complete piece of nonsense to all my friends, with…
Based on Thomas Pynchon’s much celebrated novel, this is a wild, ridiculous, totally blazed piece of work that had “cult-classic” status written all over it the moment it was released in theaters a few years ago. Different and yet similar to obvious inspirations such as The Big Lebowski, The Big Sleep, and The Long Goodbye,…
Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Of course, comedy is easily the most subjective genre out there, but for me, this film just nails its target so often that it’s impossible not to smile at all of the loving fun it pokes at Star Wars and countless other space…
Infused with a tragic sense of personal melancholy as his wife was murdered in real life, writer/director Brad Silberling’s unfairly neglected 2002 drama Moonlight Mile is a heartfelt and consistently moving piece of cinema that features sterling work from Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon as grieving parents, baby-faced Jake Gyllenhaal as their emotionally stunted would-be…
Last year’s thoroughly entertaining and always absorbing true-life boxing movie Bleed for This, from writer/director Ben Younger (Boiler Room, Prime), deserved a lot more than to bomb at the box-office and draw only middling critical responses. What were people expecting? This movie hits all the proper beats, digs in deep to the hardscrabble world that…
Robert Redford’s brilliant family drama Ordinary People is a great movie. How could it not be? It’s real. It’s genuine. Nothing is overdone. And everything works. Redford’s invisible direction, for which he won an Oscar in no less than his directorial debut, is sublime, never showboating in any aesthetic fashion, instead allowing Alvin Sargent’s sensitive…
The Nickel Ride is a cool as a cucumber crime film from 1974, patiently directed by Robert Mulligan (Summer of ’42, The Stalking Moon, To Kill A Mockingbird) from a sly, morally ambiguous screenplay by then-newbie Eric Roth (Munich, Forrest Gump, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Insider). The plot centers on a “key-man”…
