August 2008

Frozen River

August 29, 2008

“Frozen River.” Courtney Hunt, writer/director. Cohen Media Group, 97 minutes. “Frozen River” is about an unlikely pair of women smuggling immigrants from Canada to the US, but I promise you it is not a message film and it has no political agenda. It doesn’t make a case for or agains immigration; it doesn’t even make [...]

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Hamlet 2: The Sequel

August 29, 2008

“Hamlet 2.” Andrew Fleming, director. Fox Searchlight, 92 minutes. Special Jury Award, Sundance 2008. How could there be a sequel to Hamlet? They all die in the end, right? That’s part of the joke in “Hamlet 2,” an irreverent, profane, laugh-out-loud parody of the Earnest Inspirational Teacher film genre. Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) is the [...]

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Tell No One

August 25, 2008

“Tell No One.” Guillaume Canet, director.  Eurocorp/Music Box USA 125 minutes. In French with English subtitles. “Vertigo” meets “The Big Sleep” in this French thriller, and the result is movie magic. Even if you didn’t hear the dialogue you would know this was a French film, beginning as it does with the camera intimately panning [...]

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