Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Just off the Washington shore, a fisherman is found dead in his own nets with a wound to the head. Murder is suspected and the only suspect is another fisherman, who happens to be...
Category: Drama
Wonder Boys (2000)
Director Curtis Hanson follows up his brilliant L.A. CONFIDENTIAL with another impressive outing. WONDER BOYS stars Michael Douglas as Grady Tripp, a college professor and one time successful writer with a severe case of writer’s block....
Sling Blade (1996)
It’s the movie that made Billy Bob Thornton a star, and an unlikely vehicle to be one of the better films of 1996. Sling Blade also garnered a best screenplay Oscar for Thornton, who not only plays...
Best Laid Plans (1999)
Alfred Hitchcock dubbed the Master of Suspense for his ability to play the audience like a piano. Hitchcock also made masterpieces. It seems many of today’s filmmakers are more interested in playing the audience...
Sabrina (1995)
While this slight romantic comedy is easy to watch and amiable enough for an enjoyable evening, considering Harrison Ford’s (Clear and Present Danger, The Fugitive) involvement while still a superstar at the box office, it’s...
All About My Mother (1999)
Pedro Almodovar’s career as a filmmaker has been one of the strong female characters, homosexuals, transvestites, and realistic emotional truths. All About My Mother, one of his more serious works, is no exception in...
200 Cigarettes (1999)
200 Cigarettes is set on New Year’s Eve, 1981, in the East Village of NYC. Several young people are heading to a New Year’s Eve party with their problems and stories, many of them crossing...
Boogie Nights (1997)
Although Boogie Nights isn’t his first film, this is Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia) breakthrough and the first exposure many of us may have to his fine work. As evidenced within the film and also in...
Traffic (2000)
It should be abundantly clear after the year 2000 that Steven Soderbergh is the best director no one’s ever heard of working in Hollywood today. Arguably his two films (Traffic and Erin Brockovich) could legitimately claim...
The Green Mile (1999)
After creating what was, in my opinion, the best film of the Nineties in his first time at the helm, now years later writer-director Frank Darabont has the impossible task of topping himself in...