Is it still cheating if everyone’s doing it? That’s the question Chris Bell is asking in this documentary about performance enhancing drugs. Chris grew up with two brothers, and he was always the scrawny one. With childhood heroes such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Hulk Hogan, he started working out at a young age, [...]
You would have to have lived under a rock not to have heard the fangirls screaming about Twilight for the last six months. Some people called it a Harry Potter-killer, as if the two couldn’t co-exist. What inane reasoning is that?
This movie, which is based on the best-selling novels by one Stephenie Meyer, follows [...]
There are comebacks and then there are Comebacks. Some say John Travolta’s career got a reboot when he did Pulp Fiction. Of course, he then proceeded to piss away that advantage by choosing to do a whole string of shitty movies. Mickey Rourke saw a minor comeback in playing Marv in Sin City, but that’s [...]
Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, unlike Harold, is full of life, [...]
In 8½, which is an autobiographical film of Fellini’s, we meet Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a film director. Guido can’t find any inspiration for his upcoming movie, and his life is spiralling out of control. He can’t get a moment’s peace, as he keeps getting accosted from all sides: actors want to know what the [...]