| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Based on a True Story |
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening. Source: NYT |
| Basic Instinct |
For an imaginary would-be screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas explains how to survive in Hollywood. Source: NYT |
| Basic Instinct 2 |
A regrettable sequel that lacks the suspense and titillation of the original. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Basic Instinct 2 |
It was fun, admit it, to watch Sharon Stone in 1992's Basic Instinct, getting Michael Douglas and his cop buddies cross-eyed just by uncrossing her legs on a day she forgot to wear underwear. The laughs to be had in this deliciously awful sequel are all unintentional. A bummer for film buffs, but a ball for fans of the misbegotten. Take the opener, when Stone, back as bisexual crime novelist and accused serial killer Catherine Tramell, drives her car off a London bridge while a soccer star finger-fucks her to a screaming orgasm. And they say Hollywood forgot how to make movies for the whole family. Credit Stone, 48, for getting in knockout shape for this vanity project. And she can act (see Casino), she just doesn't choose to do it here. Instead she loads up every line with sexual innuendo and plays Catherine as a predator who sits around her flat in heels, tight skirt and full makeup waiting for drop-ins. First up is Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey), a shrink who treats her for risk addiction and becomes addicted to her himself. You'll have to take the script's word for that, since the doughy, dead-eyed Morrissey projects all the ardor of a zombie in a bespoke suit. About that script. Henry Bean, justly praised for The Believer and Internal Affairs, wrote the damned thing with his wife, Leora Barish. Was it Stone or director Michael Caton-Jones who ordered them to remove the lewd, lurid vitality that writer Joe Eszterhas and director Paul Verhoeven brought to the original? Several fine actors go down with this ship, including David Thewlis as a corrupt cop and Charlotte Rampling as a Hungarian shrink. Rampling's natural beauty is a rebuke to everything fake and flashy in a movie that almost performs the miracle of making Madonna's Body of Evidence look passable. Source: RollingStone.com |
| Basic Instinct 2 |
Great sexpectations, nothing more: Despite potboiler moments, Basic Instinct 2 is much more fizzle than sizzle and arrives much too long after the once racy original. We can only hope that Sly uses this as his Rocky VI cautionary tale. Source: Hollywood.com |
| Basic Instinct 2 |
( Release: Mar. 31, 2006 Rated: R Avg. Score: 1.5/5
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Overly kinky, overdone Source: Movies.com |
| Basic Instinct 2 - 3/29/2006 |
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| Basic Instinct 2 / *1/2 (R) |
Sharon Stone, who talks dirty better than anyone in the movies, plays a psychopathic trash novelist who tangles a London shrink (David Morrissey) in a web of sex, violence and betrayal. The plot is preposterous, but never mind the plot. The movie is about Stone, a victim of "risk addiction," challenging the repressed psychiatrist with a bold sexual invitation that may not involve longevity. Not good in any rational or defensible way, but not bad in irrational and indefensible ways. Trash, yes, but you can wallow in it. (R, 113 min.) Source: RogerEbert Headlines |
| Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction |
If youre looking for proof that the world is a different place post-Janet Jackson, look no further than IBasic Instinct 2: Risk AddictionI, a movie watered down to the point that it doesnt deserve any association with the original, sex and violence filled 1992 film from which it takes its name. Where IBasic InstinctI had murder, blood, strange sex, crazy sex, disturbed sex, and gratuitous nudity; IRisk AddictionI has talking and more talking. Source: Cinema Blend |
| Battle in Heaven |
Cast entirely with non-professionals, Battle in Heaven tells the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez), the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), daughter of a Mexican general. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Battle in Seattle |
By not necessarily glorifying the activists while agreeing with their cause, writer-director Stuart Townsend creates a multilayered portrait of an eventful five days that is much more about the people involved rather than the cause they were fighting for. It probably wont find its way onto the WTOs Netflix queue, but its worth a look even from those who think protesters are just bored, unwashed hippies. Source: Cinema Blend |
| Battlestar Galactica: Razor |
IBattlestar GalacticaI is already the most cinematic show on television, so it makes an awesome kind of sense for the Sci-Fi channel to port their most talked about series over to theaters. Unfortunately, theyre not doing it by having their parent company Universal turn IBSGI into a feature film, but rather by simply projecting an extended length episode of the television show in cinemas. Tonight I was there for the theatrical debut of IBattlestar Galactica: RazorI... Source: Cinema Blend |
| Be Kind Rewind |
The idea of a downtrodden town saving itself through the power of movies is hokey enough to make anyone cringe, but the cast jumps in with such aplomb that you miss out on the fun if you dont play along. Mike and Jerrys home movies are hilarious as well as visually amazing; a montage of the filmmaking process is as breathtaking in its complexity as it is silly. Source: Cinema Blend |