Epinions Recent Reviews for Malcs

Pharaoh's Army

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:55:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Let me make one thing clear before we start: DO NOT confuse this film with the Tobias Woolf book with the same title. The Tobias Woolf book takes place in the Mekong Delta during the Viet Nam war. This film takes place in the Cumberland Mountains of...

Blue In The Face

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:49:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Just before both Smoke and Blue In The Face begin, each film has a different music video starring Jerry Garcia. Before Smoke Garcia performs Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Before Blue In The Face he performs Coffee & Cigarettes. Both videos are shot in...

"Are you talking to ME?"

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:04:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Taxi Driver is an incredible character study, as the viewer gets to witness the gradual disintegration of a personality every pathetic (and empathetic) step of the way and see precisely what makes the tumblers fall.

Travis Bickle (Robert De...

Doctor, my brain hurts

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:57:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - This film is so plot-driven and relentlessly acrobatic with it's schematics and motivations that each time the narrative threads are explained and advanced (SIMULTANEOUSLY) you have to juggle all the various strands so much that your mind freezes up with...

The comptroller's guided tour of hell

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:53:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Appropriating what Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, in Las Vegas there is no there THERE. No port for import and export commerce, no town square or neighborhoods that naturally evolved. It is a completely manufactured place and "Casino"...

Nico Icon

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:49:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - "Regrets? I have no regrets. Except that I was born a woman instead of a man. That's my only regret."

-- Nico, in an interview two years before her death at age 49.

That line perfectly sums up how far ahead of her...

One of the greatest films ever made.

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:45:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - This is one of the greatest films ever made. Mark my words. History will bear me out. Acclaimed French filmmaker Claude Lelouch, whose classic examinations of intimate emotions include the Oscar-nominated "A Man and A Woman," paints a sweeping...

Swill

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:40:26 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - I don't even know why I'm bothering to acknowledge the existence of this film. I thought that if I just ignored it I could at least be thought of as not endorsing it at all, but no, I really need to get up on my soapbox about this one. This is swill...

"How do you spell 'intangible'?"

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:37:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - "How do you spell 'intangible'?" Dora Carrington asks of Lytton Strachey midway through this film as she sits writing at her desk. How do you spell intangible, indeed. Carrington tells the story of people who tried, in their own way, and at a...

Kubrick's Last Laugh

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:33:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - There was a brilliant article in the magazine Brill's Content a few months after "Eyes Wide Shut" was released which explained what happened to the marketing of the film before it was released. What it boils down to is the fact that Kubrick...

White Man's Burden

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:27:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - This could be the film that is needed to refer to right now as whites and blacks in this culture finally begin to circle each other, trying to decide how best to get down and dirty with that damn bugaboo of race and it's shadow players of class, justice...

When Night Is Falling

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:21:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - "The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Soon it will be the hour for robbers and murderers. Evil is breaking its chains and goes through the world like a mad dog... So it shall be. Therefore let us be happy, let us be kind, generous,...

Total Eclipse

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:16:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - My original captivation with this film has been tempered now that I've seen it a second time. But what I originally enjoyed and also originally disliked the first time around were both confirmed when I saw it again: My initial delight was due to the fact...

Mighty Aphrodite

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:07:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Hot on the high-heels of "Showgirls" comes Woody Allen's latest film, "Mighty Aphrodite," named after the Greek goddess of love, another American film trying to interrogate the questionable mentality and dubious spirituality of the...

Lost in America

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:03:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Papa Villone asserts that "If you can manage to find more than four memorable quotes in a film, it's a classic of some sort." Well, Albert Brooks' 1985 film Lost In America is so stocked with great quotes that it's off Papa's meter:

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Leaving Las Vegas

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:57:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - This is a film that is not afraid to deal with despair in the extreme. Nicolas Cage plays Ben, a movie executive who for some reason has lost his family and turns to drink, or, at least that's what he thinks. Early in the film he reveals that he's been...

The Exorcist

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:53:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - I've never really been much of a fan of horror films because I've never been able to suspend my belief long enough to let a monster scare me. To me psychological demons are much more effective than overdone makeup jobs. I prefer The Haunting with Claire...

Cold Blooded

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:48:54 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Meet Cosmo (Jason Priestley), a nerdy young bookie content with his boring life crunching numbers for the mob and living in a stark basement apartment at a senior citizens center. His only recreation is watching TV and the occasional tryst with his...

Cat People (1982)

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:35:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Have you ever wondered how it might feel to make love to a black leopard? In "Cat People," one more or less finds out.

"Cat People" is one more in a series of updated horror films that have had a renaissance in the...

The Candidate

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:29:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - Robert Redford, in one of his unjustly overlooked films from 1972, stars as a lawyer and the son of the former governor of the state of California in an election year where the senatorial incumbent has no competition. Peter Boyle convinces Redford to...

Smoke

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:23:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - There's no way you can ever explain the significance of a cigarette to someone who doesn't smoke. In fact, when I started smoking I didn't even realize I'd started smoking, I just found that the friends I was making, the most interesting and creative...

Pink Floyd The Wall

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:16:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Malcs - As an album, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" thrust on the music world an opus with the towering angst of a burnt-out rock star cursing his environment for causing him to build a "wall" against it and its tortures, both trivial and...