Idiosyncratic, black-as-Guinness comedy about ambition, impotence and alcoholic excess.
Archives for 2004
Mean Girls
More wholesome than mean, but still very funny (if you can stomach the homespun moral at the end).
Jersey Girl
Surprisingly unannoying romantic (tragi)comedy about not having to be in a state just because you are in New Jersey.
Fist of the North Star
If you miss this daft live-action merger of manga and Mad Max, you will be in default of your destiny.
Dzieje grzechu
A film on sin from the director of 'La Bête' ought to be an eye-opener, but for all its beauty, this affair is more turgid than torrid.
Japanese Story
Big setting, but a small film and its depths, once plumbed, turn out to be just a little too shallow.