When the Halloween season comes around, the cinema is packed with typical gruesome torture films, filled with redundancy and unjustified killing. But this time, we are treated to a different, gonzo type of horror film with “Paranormal Activity.” The film plays out in a mockumentary, hand-held camera style and documents the horrific account of Micah [...]
“Where the Wild Things Are” plays on nostalgia of a past childhood, and with a universe of monsters as playmates, the film is positioned for success but is sucked dry by grim writing. The film is based on the short, 10-sentence long children’s book by Maurice Sendak. The main character, Max, is a typical kid who looks [...]
Zombie films have come the way of horrifying tales of the undead, infesting the world and destroying civilization with George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” to hilarity as seen in the 2004 film “Shaun of the Dead.” However, each approach never gave it’s best when spoiling the idea of a zombie film. Finally, “Zombieland” [...]
What was once an 11-minute Academy Award nominated short by director Shane Acker is now an extended story set in a dark post-apocalyptic world, where rag dolls are all that is left in a land taken over by machines. What looks like an animated child’s film is actually a haunting story of the end of [...]
Viewers of “Gamer” who expect a fun-filled, action-packed film will get little more than an hour and a half of confusion and boredom. “Gamer” is what the filmmakers believe the future of video games will be like — a real life avatar that can be controlled by a player through simulation and give the player [...]
Wes Anderson has become known as the writer/director of star-studded films such as “The Darjeeling Limited,” “The Royal Tannenbaums,” and his newest film, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” premiering on Thanksgiving day, but his first creation was a must-see, independent comedy: “Bottle Rocket.” First produced as a short film in 1992, “Bottle Rocket” received a full-length [...]
You haven’t seen the best film this fall until you’ve seen Quentin Tarantino’s return to the big screen with “Inglourious Basterds.” Tarantino sticks to his roots by producing a non-chronological, multi-story arc approach at war and re-writing history. Without giving anything away, the film, set in Nazi occupied France during World War II, revolves around two [...]
Dear Editor: Dr. Bayles’ letter to the editor in the Sept. 17 issue of the Lee Clarion puzzled me and raised a question that relates to the current political campaign that needs to be addressed. The puzzlement came when I noticed that he was pointing out a bias in the Lee Clarion’s political coverage. I [...]
