A local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) pulls a diver out of Black Lake (they wanted to call it Lake Placid, but that name was already taken), only to find that he’s been bitten in half. What they find is a tooth, and this gets sent to a museum for analysis.
The tooth ends up in the hands of Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), who doesn’t usually do field research, and most certainly not in Maine. But because her boss – and boyfriend – has decided to do a little extra-curricular activity of his own with her friend, she ends up in the backwoods. This may or may not be a good choice.
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Edward Norton stars in this film, where he is billed only as The Narrator. We don’t actually ever get to hear his name, which is interesting, but strangely, you don’t find yourself missing out on that fact (or at least, I didn’t).
When we meet him, he is simply a body in motion, moving through airports, living a life that most of us can associate with, finding some measure of satisfaction through filling out his apartment with items in the IKEA catalog, slowly making where he lives into a reflection of what you see on each page.
And then on one of these trips, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). That’s when everything changes.
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Thriller on February 12th, 2007 by Chad Everett
As near as I can figure, Vincent Swan (Dennis Hopper) has two counts against him. The first is that he’s a bit of a relic, and no one really wants him around. The second is that he was involved in something of a questionable incident a few years back when a serial killer was finally tracked down.
It seems that Vincent’s daughter was one of the victims, and perhaps he was a little too overzealous when it came right down to the endgame, so everyone pretty well thinks that he’s burnt out. Most think that he just grabbed the closest thing to a criminal that he could find. But since a fire burned all the evidence – and the perp. Plus, the killings stopped, and Vincent seems to have retired, so no one is complaining too much.
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Horror on December 1st, 2006 by Chad Everett
One of the more unlikely war heroes you are ever likely to meet is Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce). This is because Captain Boyd is only a war hero because he is a coward. When he went to battle, he was so scared he played dead, and was carried into a pile of bodies. Later, he managed to pull himself out from the pile of bodies and found himself behind enemy lines, which allowed him to capture the enemy fort. Instant war hero.
Alas, the General knows that something is amiss, and he doesn’t like it, so he sends the intrepid Captain Boyd to Fort Spencer in California, and because it is the middle of the winter, this fort nestled high in the Sierras isn’t likely to see much action at all. It’s the perfect place to get rid of him. But that’s not likely to happen to someone like Captain Boyd.
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Comedy on November 24th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is having the worst day of his life. There isn’t anything special about today. It’s just the day after yesterday, which was the worst day of his life until today came along.
That’s the way that it is for him. Each day is worse than the day that proceeded it, so anytime that you see him, you can be sure that you’re seeing him on the worse day of his life. That’s life in a cubicle with Peter. But things are about to change for the better.
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Adventure on October 1st, 2006 by Chad Everett
If you’re a teenager in 1978 in search of your identity, what do you do? After you’ve formed your band, I mean? You make plans to see KISS, of course!
The only potential problem is that if one of you has a mother who doesn’t like KISS, and thinks that the band is nothing more than an acronym for “Knights in Satans Service”, then sets fire to your tickets before sending you off to boarding school the very day of the concert, you may have a tough time getting to the show.
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