Written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, True Romance (1993) is one hell of a rush. Tarantino's twisted, bloody film is a highly energized, action-packed adventure that still manages to add humor through the absurdity of its characters.
I'll be honest. I had to watch Layer Cake (2004) twice in a row to understand exactly what was going on in this fast-paced gangster thriller.
When a John Mayer song starts playing on my iPod, my immediate reaction is to hit "next." I went into Tuesday's concert with a similar mentality, expecting a weak performance of soft, mundane melodies.
Released at the fall 2008 Venice Film Festival, director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has attracted critics and is now nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. Yet unlike its competition Avatar - the highest grossing film of all time - you don't need 3-D glasses to be wowed by The Hurt Locker.
Michael Hoffman'sThe Last Station, released in January in the United States, is a historical drama set in 1910 that depicts the later life of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) - the Russian author, essayist and philosopher who is most widely known as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Although there won't be a football game this weekend, the streets of Charlottesville will be packed as ever.
F. Gary Gray, director of The Italian Job, once again displays his love for action, cool gadgets and the beauty of explosions in this year's Law Abiding Citizen, which stars Jamie Foxx (Collateral, Ray) and Gerard Butler (300, P.S.
Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matt Robinson, The Invention of Lying is a satirical comedy that takes place in an alternate reality where lying does not exist. Gervais (The Office, Extras) plays the main character, Mark Bellison - a short, fat loser who discovers how to lie, or "say what isn't." The characters not only always tell the truth, but they exercise no censorship as they feel obliged to share their stream of consciousness, no matter how rude or outlandish it may be. For instance, when "loser" Mark and "hot" Anna (Jennifer Garner)
Directed by Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines, Serbis (2008) vividly and realistically depicts the despondent tale of the Pineda family's struggle to survive in an inner Philippine city.
OFFscreen, a student-run club which screens independent films in Newcomb Hall Theater each Sunday, gives students the opportunity to see films for a reasonable price that they would not otherwise get to see in Charlottesville - or, for that matter, the rest of Virginia.
