Articles in European Movie Reviews
Enigma (2002) Movie Review
Michael Apted’s Enigma is a World War II suspense/mystery and concerns the British’s attempts to break the German code machine called Enigma. The American World War II movie U-571 breached the same subject, but from an action-adventure point of view. Enigma is written by Tom Stoppard, who adapted from a novel by Robert Harris.
The [...]
The Princess and the Warrior (2001) Movie Review
Writer/director Tykwer’s follow-up to his breakthrough hit, 1998’s Run Lola Run, is 2000’s The Princess and the Warrior, a film that is not about a princess, a warrior, or a magical fantasyland. The movie is set in contemporary Germany, and concerns Sissi (Franka Potente), a young woman who works and lives at a mental institution [...]
April 25th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreNight of the Blind Dead (1971) Movie Review
Spanish auteur Amando de Ossorio’s Night of the Blind Dead fits into a subgenre I like to call Schlock Horror. Schlock Horror movies are so bad that they’re…well, they’re just so bad it’s impossible to imagine how they could get any worst, although this doesn’t always stop them from proving us wrong. Just when you [...]
April 16th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreZombie (1979) Movie Review
I have a revolving policy when it comes to movie reviews. Depending on the movie in question, I will adjust my review parameters appropriately. Why do I do this? Because I wouldn’t dream of looking at a subgenre film (such as a Zombies Attack movie) the same way as I would a normal, mainstream film. [...]
April 6th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreMalena (2000) Movie Review
Malena takes place in the 1940s, as Italy gears up for war with the Allied nations, confident in its superiority and in its righteousness. The film stars the beautiful Italian actress Monica Belluci (Brotherhood of the Wolf) as the titular character, a young wife who was brought to this new town by her new husband, [...]
March 28th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreParanoid (2000) Movie Review
Like some people I know, some movies think they’re more interesting than they really are. This is the case with John Duigan’s Paranoid.
Paranoid stars Jessica Alba (TV’s “Dark Angel”) as Chloe, an up-and-coming fashion model who travels to the country home belonging to a friend of her current boyfriend. Their host is Stan (Iain [...]
No Man’s Land (2001) Movie Review
The Serbian Conflict, as it’s most widely known, involved various sides for around 8 years in what is the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. There were the Serbs, the Croats, the Bosnians, and various other ethnic groups who sought independence from each other. Most of the times the other groups gang up to fight the [...]
March 14th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreCroupier (1998) Movie Review
I know a lot of people like the ones that appears in Mike Hodges’ Croupier, a movie about a novelist who takes a job as a casino dealer (or croupier) when he runs out of money. The people in Croupier are losers. There’s really no other way to describe them. Everyone is a loser in [...]
March 6th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreHigh Heels and Low Lifes (2001) Movie Review
I have very low expectations of movies I’ve never heard of. This may be why I’m usually very surprised by the superior quality of a lot of low-budget films (or independent films) that have been ignored by the general populace by their lack of publicity. Look at it this way: when you have been expecting [...]
February 26th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreOrdinary Decent Criminal (2000) Movie Review
Michael Lynch, the ordinary decent criminal of the title, is an ordinary Irish fellow who happens to make a living as a professional bank (and whatever else you got) robber. He has a big household, is married to the beautiful Christine, and is also sleeping with Christine’s sister, Lisa, out in the open. The two [...]
February 18th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
Great news I'm looking forward to this one. 
youre welcome bmmb! The movie is gonna be great i hope they have a baby! 
ugh, someone send this guy(michael gonzalez) a keylogger or trojan. please. 
i dont thinkhe is that ugly! Now come ondont be so mean! and i repect your thoughts that was pretty ...
I love james even though he is the bad guy in the movie !! he plays his part very well ...
