Alien Resurrection
A series such as the Alien films, with hordes of fans worldwide and much acclaim under its belt, has a lot to live up to when a new sequel hits the collective retina. So, with the release of Alien Resurrection, the fourth chapter in the Ripley saga, audiences should be surprised by changes in the…
The Man Who Knew Too Little
One of the basic guidelines of improvisational comedy is known as “yes … and,” meaning that each performer must accept any information other performers provide (about relationships, locations, etc.) and then build on that foundation to move the scene forward (often by raising the stakes of the encounter). The Man Who Knew Too Little is…
Mad scientist on the midway
Quintron’s one-man carnival menagerie rolls into town….
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
From the outset, audiences will have very little reason to avoid Francis Ford Coppola’s newest film, John Grisham’s The Rainmaker. Boasting an acclaimed director and a humbly told American fave, the courtroom drama, as his device, it brings old and new favorites as its basic staples. Now triple that with a story by Hollywood’s biggest…
Kiss or Kill
It’s clear that Australian writer-director Bill Bennett sees Kiss or Kill as something more than standard criminal-lovers-on-the-run fare when he opens the film with a quote from Dylan Thomas’ “Our Eunuch Dreams”: “We watch the show of shadows kiss or kill, / Flavored of celluloid, give love the lie.” What follows is a self-conscious blend…
