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Volume 3, Issue 4
February 15 - February 28, 2001 |
PICKUP SHOTS
Quickie Movie Reviews
102 Dalmations [G 1h 34m] Did Disney learn nothing from the Herbie series? Starring: Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu. Directed by: Kevin Lima.
13 Days [PG-13] Kevin Costner fights a bay of pigs. Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp. Directed by: Roger Donaldson.
3,000 Miles to Graceland [R] Elvis impersonators hold up a casino. Starring: Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Christian Slater. Directed by: Demian Lichtenstein.
Billy Elliot [R 1h 40m] Coal miner's son takes ballet lessons. Starring: Jamie Bell. Directed by: Stephen Daldry.
Cast Away [PG-13 2h 23m] Tom Hanks gets left on an island by himself without $1 million. Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Charlie's Angels [PG-13 1h 30m] One big tease -- you mean they can't use guns and don't get naked? Puh-leeze. Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray. Directed by: McG.
Chocolat [PG-13 2h 1m] Sweet candy drives the French people wild. Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench. Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [PG-13 2h] The real star is choreographer Yuen Wo Ping. Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen. Directed by: Ang Lee.
Double Take [PG-13 1h 28m] Still walk-ing in Eddie Murphy's footsteps. Starring: Eddie Griffin, Orlando Jones, Vivica A.
Dude Where's My Car? [PG-13] In the parking lot at the 7-11, pothead. Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner. Directed by: Danny Leiner.
Emperor's New Groove [G] An animated buddy comedy in South America? Again? Starring: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton. Directed by: Mark Dindal.
The Family Man [PG-13 2h 10m] Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you married your high school sweetheart? Me neither. Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle. Directed by: Brett Ratner.
Finding Forrester [PG-13 2h 16m] Good Will Hunting, only this time with a much older teacher and a much blacker student. Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin. Directed by: Gus Van Sant.
The Gift [R 1h 52m] Do all psychic peo-ple live in the South? Starring: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear. Directed by: Sam Raimi.
Hannibal [R] Will cops and serial killers ever learn to get along? Starring: Anthony
Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman. Directed by: Ridley Scott.
Head Over Heels [PG-13 2h 7m] Supermodels love the dangerous type, even if he's got baby fat. Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Monica Potter, China Chow. Directed by: Mark S. Waters.
House of Mirth [PG 2h 20m] Scully drops the flashlight and picks up a Chinese fan. Starring: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron. Directed by: Terence Davies.
Malena [R 1h 34m] A woman is so beautiful that even 13-year-old boys work up the nerve to ask her out. Starring: Monica Bellucci. Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore.
Miss Congeniality [PG-13 1h 51m] Somebody please stop making fun of beauty pageants. We know. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner. Directed by: Donald Petrie.
Monkeybone [PG-13] Stop-motion ani-mation meets Brendan Fraser. Stop-motion animation wins. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Dave Foley, Whoopi Goldberg (as Death), Rose McGowan. Directed by: Henry Selick.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? [PG-13 1h 45m] Homer's Odyssey gets re-told in the depression-era south? Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter. Directed by: Joel Coen.
The Pledge [R] Will cops and serial killers ever learn to get along? Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn, Aaron Eckhart, Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by: Sean Penn.
Recess: School's Out [G] For those who like their stupid Saturday morning car-toons better in a dark theatre at night. Starring: Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Katey Sagal. Directed by: Chuck Sheetz.
Save the Last Dance [PG-13] Hey, teens, when life gets you down, just dance, dance, dance! Starring: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas. Directed by: Thomas Carter.
Saving Silverman A movie about the evils of getting married written by bitter single people. Starring: Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Steve Zahn.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Shadow of the Vampire [R] Never cast an actual vampire as the lead in a vampire movie. Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes. Directed by: E. Elias Merhige.
Snatch [R] Relax Shane Company, people only steal diamonds in the movies. Starring: Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Farina. Directed by: Guy "Madonna" Ritchie.
State and Main [R 1h 46m] Hollywood meets Vermont, and Ben & Jerry leave town. Starring: William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker. Directed by: David Mamet. Sugar & Spice [PG-13] A rollicking comedy about pregnant high school cheerleaders? Starring: Marley Shelton, James Marsden, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari. Directed by: Francine McDougall.
Sweet November [PG-13] See Keanu put the moves on girl. See girl respond. Wonder, exactly, how this works. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Frank Langella. Directed by: Pat O'Connor.
Traffic [R 2h 27m] The nature of the drug deal, as explained by beautiful peo-ple. Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro. Directed by: Steven Soderbergh.
Valentine [R 1h 35m] Every holiday deserves a serial killer movie franchise. Starring: David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw. Directed by: Jamie Blanks.
Vertical Limit [PG-13 2h 4m] When will famous actors stop getting stuck up on K-2?
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Bill Paxton.
Directed by: Martin Campbell.
The Wedding Planner [PG-13] Wedding Planner [PG-13 1h 43m] Slightly less annoying than The Bachelor, slightly more annoying than The Wedding Singer. Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Pollak. Directed by: Adam Schankman.
What Women Want [PG-13 2h 6m] Women want Mel Gibson? And all this time men thought it was Brad Pitt. Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein. Directed by: Nancy Meyers.
You Can Count On Me [R 1h 49m] Unexpected houseguests make worlds go crazy. Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Rory Culkin, Matthew Broderick. Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan.