Clean (2004)

Dedicated to reviewers who recognize and appreciate a real star when they see one. Now back off! At the outset, Maggie Cheung is clean but she’s not “clean.” A friend of mine saw the movie and all he could talk about was Maggie. This is a guy who’ll watch a flick with Michelle Yeoh in [...]

2001

I notice that 2001 is #22 on the AFI list. Various blog posters have it on their top-five sci fi lists. Just a quick post here to ask why. Disclaimer: I write here only of my subjective reactions to the movie. No absolutes. No measure of Kubrick as visionary or master filmmaker. If 2001 is [...]

Warriors of Terra

Warriors of Terra is the name of a group of young eco-activists who have invaded, and freed the caged critters from, the research facilities of twelve of those large, evil companies that mistreat animals in the service of developing drugs that will make the stockholders (and the immoral CEOs, always beautifully decked out in navy [...]

Paths of Glory

This Stanley Kubrick film (1957) is listed in AFI’s top 200 movies of all time. Paths of Glory tells the story of a company of World War I French soldiers accused of cowardice after the men refuse to advance during an attack on the German lines. Three soldiers chosen at random from the ranks are [...]

Be With Me (2005)

Directed by Eric Khoo. Starring Theresa Chan, Ng Sway Ah, Seet King Yew, Exann Lee 93 minutes. Unrated. In English, Cantonese, Hakkim, and Mandarin, with English subtitles. “Be With Me” weaves three fictional romances around the true story of Theresa Chan, a deaf and blind woman living in Singapore. Sometime during the first half of [...]