"Seitdem dieser verzwickte Thriller das Publikum und die Kritiker 1995 verblüffte und einen Oscar für Christopher McQuarries wendungsreiches Drehbuch erhielt, spaltet Die üblichen Verdächtigen die Filmliebhaber in zwei Lager. Während viele Zuschauer sich sehr am inzwischen berühmten zentralen Geheimnis des Films erfreuten (nämlich: "Wer ist Keyser Söze?"), lassen andere sich nicht so sehr beeindrucken von einem Film, der zu sehr in seine ..."
"Sean Penn and Benecio Del Toro, two of the most gripping actors around, play wildly different men linked through a grieving woman (Naomi Watts) in 21 Grams. Del Toro delves deep into the role of an ex-con turned born-again Christian, a deeply conflicted man struggling to set right a terrible accident, even at the expense of his family. Penn captures a cynical, philandering professor in dire need of a heart transplant, which he gets from ..."
"SnatchUsually it might seem a tad unfair to begin a review by referring to the director's missis. But then the missis in question wouldn't usually be Madonna--a woman whose ability to reinvent herself several times before breakfast seems in marked contrast to that of hubby Guy Ritchie. Certainly, this follow-up to the filmmaker's breakthrough film--the high-energy, expletive-strewn cockney-gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barr ..."
"Mit seiner riesigen Besetzung an Charakteren ist der ehrgeizige und atemberaubende Film Traffic eigentlich ein Handlungsteppich aus drei separaten, ineinander verwobenen Geschichten, getragen von einem gemeinsamen Thema: der Kampf gegen die Drogen. Die erste Geschichte spielt in Ohio und dreht sich um den kürzlich ernannten obersten Drogenbeauftragten der Regierung (Michael Douglas), der -- nachdem er den Job angenommen hat -- das Gefü ..."
"Timothy Daltons zweiter und auch letzter Auftritt als James Bond ist nahezu ebenso unterhaltsam wie sein Debüt, das er zwei Jahre früher im 1987 entstandenen Der Hauch des Todes hatte. Dieses mal wird Bond zum Rächer, nachdem ein enger Freund (David Hedison, Sprengkommando Atlantik, Die größte Geschichte aller Zeiten), der ebenfalls beim Geheimdienst arbeitet, am Tag seiner Hochzeit ermordet wird. 007 begibt sich in den Untergrund und e ..."
"Alicia Silverstone was so hot after the success of Clueless that she formed her own production company at the age of 19, and Excess Baggage was the first movie she chose as a starring vehicle. Silverstone plays Emily, a spoiled rich girl who has everything but her father's affection, so she decides to stage her own kidnapping to see if dad will come to his senses and appreciate the daughter he so blindly disregards. But when Emily locks ..."
"The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered ..."
"Alicia Silverstone was so hot after the success of Clueless that she formed her own production company at the age of 19, and Excess Baggage was the first movie she chose as a starring vehicle. Silverstone plays Emily, a spoiled rich girl who has everything but her father's affection, so she decides to stage her own kidnapping to see if dad will come to his senses and appreciate the daughter he so blindly disregards. But when Emily locks ..."
"Ursprünglich war Alex Cox als Co-Autor und Regisseur von Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas vorgesehen. Dessen früheres Werk Sid And Nancy lässt vermuten, dass er auch für Hunter S. Thompsons psychotropes Meisterwerk der Underground-Literatur die perfekte Wahl gewesen wäre. Unglücklicherweise sprang Cox auf Grund der üblichen kreativen Differenzen doch noch ab. So kam es, dass der Regie-Job Terry Gilliam aufgedrängt wurde, dessen großartige ..."
"A harsh, cutting, and wickedly funny look into the darker side of show business, Swimming with Sharks tells the story of a naive and eager assistant (Frank Whaley) and his slide into the cutthroat world of Hollywood power struggles. Whaley goes to work for a top movie executive (Kevin Spacey) who almost immediately begins to wear down his new assistant's exuberance with his whining, egomaniacal tantrums and relentless verbal abuse, ..."
"Lurid thrillers don't get much more shameless than this movie, in which Robert De Niro plays a pathological baseball fan whose obsession is focused on a San Francisco Giants all-star outfielder (Wesley Snipes). While the newly signed baseball star is having trouble getting his favorite uniform number from a competitive teammate (Benicio Del Toro), De Niro is having career troubles at the knife company his father founded, and you can bet ..."
"Man sagt, dass 21 Gramm das Gewicht ist, das wir verlieren, wenn wir sterben. Das Gewicht von fünf Fünf-Cent-Stücken. Das Gewicht eines Kolibris. Das Gewicht eine Stücks Schokolade. Und vielleicht auch das Gewicht der Menschlichen Seele. 21 Gramm zeigt das Leben dreier Personen, deren Schicksale sich durch einen dramatischen Unfall unwiderruflich verbinden. Der todkranke Paul hofft, dass ein Spenderherz sein Leben retten wird; die Ehef ..."
"Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro. The screen melts and morphs into one psychedelic image after another as a journalist and his lawyer embark on a drug-addled trip to Vegas. Based on the book by the original gonzo journalist," Hunter S. Thompson. 1998/color/118 min/R/widescreen. "
"BASQUIAT chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of the gifted and charismatic young New York artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, as he emerged from the streets of the East Village to become an internationally renowned sensation."