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Kiki's Delivery Service
»rank: 745
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Hayao Miyazaki's magical Kiki's Delivery Service, a 13-year-old girl meets the world head on as she spends her first year soloing as an apprentice witch. Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a cat Jiji (a gently subdued Phil Hartman) by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. Miyazaki's gentle rhythm and meandering narrative capture the easy ...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Widescreen)
»rank: 151
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Given the presence of both Steve Martin and John Candy, one would expect this John Hughes comedy to be much, much funnier than it is. Certainly it's not for lack of effort on the part of its stars. Martin is an uptight businessman trying to get home from New York for the holidays. But one thing after another gets in his way--most of it having to do with Candy, a boorish but well-meaning boob who takes a liking to him. Together they travel all over the map; no ...
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Any Given Sunday (Widescreen Director's Cut)
»rank: 1404
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Any Given Sunday, 0liver Stone's salute-cum-exposé of pro football, belabors some pretty obvious points for nigh onto three hours; but between the frenetic editing, the pounding rap-music beats, and several flashy performances, it's certainly never dull. Al Pacino, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks (the NFL declined involvement in this production), struggles with the most time-honored of sports movie dilemmas: what to do with the old friend who's past his prime and the young hotshot who could save the franchise but first has to learn what being a team ...
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Rounders (Widescreen)
»rank: 1558
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A little drunk on its own arcane exotica as a gambling movie, Rounders is a film that takes us inside a world of high-stakes card players but falls short on such essentials as character development, relationships, that sort of thing. Still, it is a real curiosity, written by a couple of guys (David Levien and Brian Koppelman) who appear to know something about the dark underbelly of card hustling for fun and profit. Matt Damon stars as a reluctant law student who can't put aside his subterranean career of ...
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Rare Birds
»rank: 1558
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Dave Purcell's life is at an impasse. His marriage has failed, his restaurant's going bankrupt, and his optimism is being crushed by the weight of his own apathy. 0ne of the only bright spots in his world comes in the form of Phonce, a fellow Newfie. Living the life of a true eccentric, Phonce fills his days with invention and his nights with conspiracy theories. ln an attempt to bring business back to Dave's flailing fine dining establishment, he and Phonce start a rumour that an extinct breed of duck ...
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The Hot Chick
»rank: 2570
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Dave Purcell's life is at an impasse. His marriage has failed, his restaurant's going bankrupt, and his optimism is being crushed by the weight of his own apathy. 0ne of the only bright spots in his world comes in the form of Phonce, a fellow Newfie. Living the life of a true eccentric, Phonce fills his days with invention and his nights with conspiracy theories. ln an attempt to bring business back to Dave's flailing fine dining establishment, he and Phonce start a rumour that an extinct breed of duck ...
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Scream: 1/2/3
»rank: 6089
Chroniques et points de vue:From :When Randy the video geek rattles off the rules of surviving a horror movie in Wes Craven's Scream, he speaks for a generation of filmgoers who are all too aware of slasher movie clichés. Playfully scripted by Kevin Williamson with a self-aware wink and more than a few nods to its grandfathers (from Psycho to Halloween to the Friday the 13th dynasty), Scream skewers teen horror conventions with loving reverence while re-creating them in a modern, movie-savvy context. And so goes the series, which continues the satirical spoofing by ...
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Exit Wounds (Widescreen)
»rank: 13409
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0ne can always count on Steven Seagal to act as the repository of yesterday's action-film clichés, and Exit Wounds is yet another case in point. Seagal plays Detroit cop 0rin Boyd, a lone wolf lawman who gets in the middle of his precinct's losing battle against police corruption. Taking on a powerful but crooked cop named Montini (David Vadim)--who is busy making deals with a rich gangster (DMX)--Boyd soon sends fists and feet flying while Tom Arnold provides the comic relief. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak surely had less fun guiding ...
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Eddie and the Cruisers (Widescreen)
»rank: 15719
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Perhaps best known for its faux Springsteen soundtrack, the 1983 Eddie and the Cruisers is a rock lover's fantasy run wild. The story finds a reporter (Ellen Barkin) tracking down rumors of an unreleased album by a band whose charismatic leader (Michael Paré) allegedly died years before. As she approaches surviving members--who have since gone on to other things--she gets different points of view on Eddie's life and artistic drive, and the mystery about that album deepens. The trouble with the film is simple: it's impossible to accept. Michael ...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
»rank: 19062
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Perhaps best known for its faux Springsteen soundtrack, the 1983 Eddie and the Cruisers is a rock lover's fantasy run wild. The story finds a reporter (Ellen Barkin) tracking down rumors of an unreleased album by a band whose charismatic leader (Michael Paré) allegedly died years before. As she approaches surviving members--who have since gone on to other things--she gets different points of view on Eddie's life and artistic drive, and the mystery about that album deepens. The trouble with the film is simple: it's impossible to accept. Michael ...
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