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This Weeks Movie Reviews: V for Vendetta The Matrix appeared in 1999 and mainstream film audiences had reason to celebrate. Keanu Reeves, adrift for years after Speed, managed to look comfortable on film again. Carrie-Anne Moss, an obscure actress until then, would never be obscure again. And high-speed, leaping martial arts (known modishly as "wire fu") would give the film a steely elegance. The Wachowski brothers, who wrote and directed The Matrix, were the mavericks of the new action pic.Read more... The White Countess It would be difficult to watch The White Countess without considering its place as the last chapter in a long and remarkable list of Merchant Ivory films. Ismail Merchant, who was most often a producer but also directed, died last May. His 44-year collaboration with James Ivory produced more than 30 films, including a delightful adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Room With a View and the Oscar-nominated Howards End (also a Forster adaptation). But not every Merchant Ivory production was quite as successful, and while The White Countess is not as forgettable as, say, Le Divorce, it is also not up to par with the team's best work. Read more...
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