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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Little Miss Sunshine Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Written by Michael Arndt. Cinematography, Tim Suhrstedt. Music, Mychael Danna, featuring music by DeVotchka. Starring Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006. R. 99 minutes. The directorial debut from husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine is the small, independently-produced movie that could. Financed by producer Marc Turtletaub after being dropped by Focus Features, the film was snapped up in a record-making deal at the Sundance Film Festival. It's a funny backstory for a charming, well-paced and fantastically acted movie that celebrates, with dark humor, family drama and a helping of absurd spectacle, the character-making, eye-opening value of losing. Read more...
Snakes on a Plane Directed by David R. Ellis. Written by John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez. Cinematography, Adam Greenberg. Music, Trevor Rabin. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Bobby Cannavale, David Koechner, Sunny Mabrey, Elsa Pataky and Todd Louiso. New Line Cinema, 2006. R. 105 minutes. With its low-rent title and the promise of midair gore, Snakes on a Plane doesn't want you to think too much. All it asks is that you sit back, relax and enjoy the campy innuendo that's the hallmark of the soon-to-be-dead. That, and a few hundred sexed-up poisonous snakes. But the fact that it barely exceeds B-movie expectations makes Snakes a disappointment. Snakes is for people who see movies to avoid boredom, hangovers or heatstroke. Everyone else, go to the zoo. Read more...
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