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July 08, 2005
The Great Raid
War movies are like westerns -- a dying genre in a world too cyncial for conventional white-horse heroes (there's hardly even interest in Rambo-style action figures any more). So where does that leave a movie like The Great Raid, with its grizzled POWs and rah-rah heroics? If there's one thing director John Dahl's good at, it's strangling some life out of tired genre formulas (he found a dark new corner of noir in Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, while Joy Ride put some tingle back in the slasher movie). Let's hope he can do something interesting with this.
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Posted by Peter Debruge at 02:12 PM | Comments (20)
July 07, 2005
Waiting
Could Waiting be the Clerks for the chain-restaurant crowd? It's got all the signs: A caustic look at the fine art of table-waiting as a way of lashing back at countless years of bad tips, hostile customers, and on-the-job pranks. Considering that waiting is basically the unofficial career of Hollywood's struggling actor/screenwriter community, it's amazing we've never seen this movie before.
Posted by Peter Debruge at 11:37 AM | Comments (16)
July 06, 2005
Dark Water
Water, water everywhere.
They say New York has some of the cleanest tap water in the world. It's the pipes that're the problem. Well, the pipes and whatever malicious spirit is messing with the plumbing in Jennifer Connelly's Dark Water apartment. Cuz the stuff running down her walls looks like it was poured out of a spitoon -- not the kind of surprise you want to wake up to find splashing on your face.
Posted by Peter Debruge at 11:50 PM | Comments (17)
