Does Johny Depp deserve a bigger salary?

The first two movies of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” brought the box office almost $1.7 billion. The budgets of the movies were about $200 million / a movie. But after we watch these first two movies, do we remember William Tuner’s name? Or Keira Knightley’s character’s name? I don’t think so… We remember Johnny [...]

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment 

Why hasn’t Borat gone to Kazakhstan?

Although I like (in some way) Sacha Baron Cohen, I’ve never really understood why he didn’t go to Kazakhstan for filming the scenes for Borat’s videos. As you probably already know, he went to Romania, where he also brought about a press scandal (this is the way the foreigners are getting us in wrong etc). [...]

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment 

Seinfeld DVD Review - a must buy

I received a month ago the DVDs that contained the seasons 1 to 6 of “Seinfeld”. I had ordered them from Amazon a little bit too late (not that I’d wanted that), but “Seinfeld” was still broadcasted by a local television, and I didn’t considered that a priority. But, that was a really big mistake. I [...]

October 30, 2006 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment 

OldBoy Movie Review

From all the parts of Park Chan-Wook trilogy of revenge, Oldboy is far the most successful act. It won the Jury’s Prize at Cannes in 2004, and Park Chan-Wook was nominated for Palme d’Or. At that moment “FAHRENHEIT 9/11” was the winner, because that was the way it should have been by political interests. The [...]

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Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) - a fair man

“Taxi Driver” is a movie that’s really haunting me with a powerful insistence. It’s every two months that I need to watch this movie once again. However, what’s the most bizarre thing is that when I read about the main character of “Taxi Driver”, Travis Bickle, I find out that the critics have mainly considered [...]

October 30, 2006 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment