Last week, acknowledging my lack of things to do, my friend considerately brought me a book she had found lying in her basement. It was called Transgressions, featuring two short stories, one by Stephen King and the other by a John Farris.
I had never read a Stephen King before, and thought it was a good chance to see what all the hype was about. His story was called The Things They Left Behind. To start off with, it was about a topic which I was not expecting. I never read...
Director David Cronenberg, one-time horror icon, continues to branch into the gangster genre of film with his follow-up to A History of Violence, the Russian mafia-centered, Oscar-nominated melodrama Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen stars, as he did in History, as a tough gangster type, with Cronenberg once again peppering his trademark outlandish and extreme violence into the story of a mobster with a heart of gold. It is Mortensen who has earned the film's sole Oscar nomination, for...
In short, Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code is a very good movie with a lot of great things in it. The movie is not “great”, and to me certainly not something that Ron Howard put his heart in to. Though not consistent, the man has some incredibly great and/or enjoyable movies under his belt. Have you seen Splash, Gung Ho, Backdraft, Cocoon or Apollo 13? Even very recently I found both Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind to be outstanding and compelling movie making. The word...
