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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Nach Libre Directed by Jared Hess. Written by Jared Hess, Jerusha White and Mike White. Cinematography by Xavier Pérez Grobet. Music by Beck. Starring Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez and Richard Montoya. Paramount Pictures, 2006. PG. 100 minutes.
I remember the first time I saw him, as Georgie the pill-popping orderly in Jesus' Son (1999). He was trying to get Billy Crudup to listen to his slippers. He reminded me of John Belushi: Jack Black had the same intensity, the same agility for his size. But there was something a little sinister about Black. You sensed that things could go wrong at any minute, and that if Black had his way, they would. His deranged performance a year later in High Fidelity only reinforced the belief that great things would come. Read more...
X-Men: The Last Stand WriDirected by Brett Ratner. Written by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn. Cinematography, Dante Spinotti. Music, John Powell. Starring Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and many more. 20th Century Fox, 2006. PG-13. 104 minutes.
It was with some trepidation that I watched X-Men: The Last Stand, the third X-film and the first directed by Brett Ratner. Ratner made his name with action (Rush Hour) and has picked up the reins of a series before (Red Dragon), but his uninspired style isn't on par with that of X-Men and X2 director Bryan Singer (whose Superman Returns is out next week). Singer had a clear empathy for his characters; he spent time showing how their mutant abilities shaped their lives and decisions. He also had a handle on the X-universe's inherent subtexts about power, otherness, freedom and acceptance. Read more...
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