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- LizFlix Reviews: The Simpsons Movie
I let out a nervous squeal when I’d learned of the upcoming Sex and the City movie; it’s serious stuff when successful small screen ventures get blown up (and often out of proportion) in Hollywood. If there is anything more dangerous than making a sequel to a box office hit, it’s making a movie [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Talk to Me
“Don’t blame me; it’s just the voice.” This is what the ‘Nighthawk” Bob Terry (Cedric the Entertainer) had to say in defense of his irresistible radio personality. If it were just that trademark, slow-talkin, raspy voice that set Nighthawk’s counterpart Ralph Waldo ‘Petey’ Greene apart, there’d probably still be a movie in the making [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Hairspray (Reviewed at the 2007 Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)
It seems to me that what makes or breaks a film is surprisingly so often not its acting, directing, writing, or musical score, but the crowd amongst which it is viewed. It is so much more compelling to laugh at comedy when you’re with your buddies, that much more tempting to show visible fear by [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn is Werner Herzog’s period biopic tribute to fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, whose incredible escape from a Pathet Lao POW camp is one of the few uplifting stories to have come out of Vietnam. The start of the film finds itself in 1966, when American pilots were being sent on classified missions to secretly [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Little Children
Interestingly enough, Little Children is hardly about children at all. Or is it? I suppose it was director Todd Field’s intention to justly interrogate childhood in his sophomore project, to probe its life, its essence, and the intensity with which it evolves. Little Children expertly plants seedling stories of young adult suburban marriages, tends to [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Joshua
Combine a hint of Hitchcock style horror, a dash of domestic disturbance, and a pinch of post partum depression. Stir in some sibling rivalry, finish off with some elementary evil, and you’ve got a recipe for: a George Ratliff film which basks in the initial brilliance of dark comedy, wavers in grueling indecision, and finally [...]
- LixFlix Reviews: License to Wed
If you’re giving yourself permission to relax in front of some good humored romantic silliness, I would strongly suggest kicking back and enjoying License to Wed. But enjoying the fruits of such a movie requires commitment: to the confusing, the seemingly implausible, and the plot that oftentimes wonders astray. If you can suspend the [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Manufactured Landscapes
You’d probably be hard pressed to argue that world renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky hasn’t tapped something extraordinary with his work. “Nature transformed through industry”: this is what the Toronto based artist aims to capture in each of his brilliant photographs, images of things such as mile long industrial assembly lines and brilliantly colored recycling yards, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: The Devil Came On Horseback (Reviewed at Silverdocs)
The Darfur region of Western Sudan is literally being burnt alive. Since 2003, 450,000 of its black, African citizens have been mercilessly raped, tortured, and killed. Almost three million more are homeless; their villages have been destroyed by the Sudanese government and the Arab militia groups allowed to profit from the pillage. Few have witnessed [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Live Free or Die Hard
Live Free or Die Hard is the long awaited, fourth installment of the Die Hard series, the fierce action history of the iconic detective John McClane. Director Len Wiseman breathes life into the screenplay based on a story written by Mark Bomback and David Marconi. There’s never much of a plot in a Die [...]
