Sundance Offers Broad Menu of Highlights - AP
?Smokin? Aces? is a Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others.Movie Review | ‘Smokin’ Aces’: Sometimes Pulp Fiction Emphasizes Pulp Over Fiction
?Night at the Museum” adheres to the current Hollywood philosophy that coherence doesn?t matter if enough stuff is thrown onto the screen.Movie Review | ‘Night at the Museum’: The Night of the Living Dioramas
In Eastern Europe at the end of World War II, a young Hannibal watches as his parents violently die, leaving his young sister in his care. Alone and without any means of support, he is forced to live in a Soviet orphanage. He flees to Paris to find his uncle has died but his Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him. Even her kindness and love cannot soothe the nightmares and sorrows that plague him. Showing a cunning aptitude for science he is accepted into medical school, which serves to hone his skills and provide the tools to exact justice on the war criminals that haunt him day and night. This quest will ignite an insatiable lust within a serial killer who was not born, but made.Hannibal Rising opens February 9th, 2007 (wide)
Sundance Film Festival juries on Saturday gave top prizes to two films, “Padre Nuestro” and “Manda Bala,” highlighting a range of movies here that concerned world issues, the war in Iraq and families.“Padre Nuestro,” “Manda Bala” top Sundance awards - Reuters
What do a German terrorist, a martial-arts fanatic, a bank robber and a gay preacher all have in common? They’ve all got Daddy issues, and according to Oscar-winner Jessica Yu’s latest documentary, they’ve all taken similar journeys in life that follow the ancient Greek plays of Euripides. Compared to her fantastic and fascinating “In the Realms of the Unreal” (2004), Yu’s follow-up doesn’t have the same compelling and perverse punch, but it’s an intriguing experiment all the same.PARK CITY ‘07 REVIEW | Dramatis Personae: Yu’s “Protagonist” Plays with Extreme Personalities - indieWIRE