54
June 19th, 2006
Not quite as bad as it’s made out to be, at least not at first: New Jersey rube in the late 70s enters the magic disco world of Mike Myers’ club 54, does coke and Salma Hayek, etc. Compelling enough to keep us watching, even if it falls apart about halfway through.
Asymmetrical Warfare
June 11th, 2006
“I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”
A Scanner Darkly
June 10th, 2006
Mindwarping animation meets paranoid slackers from the future in Richard Linklater’s adaptation Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel. Starring Keanu Reeves as a schizophrenic undercover cop, Winona Ryder as dealer and love interest, and Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr. as drug-addled buffoons. A Scanner Darkly opens today. Jürgen reviews.
Lower City
June 10th, 2006
Bodily fluids flow freely and passions run high in Lower City, Sérgio Machado’s oh-so-earnest debut film about a love triangle between two friends and a prostitute. Brazilian actress Alice Braga almost carries the movie. Lower City opens today. Read Marcy’s review.
A/K/A Tommy Chong
June 10th, 2006
Well-made documentary about the stoner comic’s run-in with John Ashcroft’s Justice Department and subsequent 9-month jail term for selling glass over the Internet. In equal parts amusing and infuriating.
