Reviews

The Chimp Channel combines excellent writing with amazingly human-like performances to achieve comedy unrivaled by traditional adult actors. Indeed, if the skits were performed by a Saturday Night Live cast, the audience would be bored to tears, but there's something special (and incredibly funny) about a chimp version of Judge Judy.

Check it out. You won't be disappointed.

When the credits for Snow Falling on Cedars finally rolled in my film class at USC, a collective sigh of relief rose from the audience.

This is one of those films caught up with it's own filmdom. The visual style, the flashbacks devoid of dialogue, and the story within a story all stretch out a narrative easily told in a few minutes, I can only guess that the success of Shine blinded the studio execs into thinking that this mega-bucks film will be a mainstream success.

All in all, it wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't great. If it had only been around 45 minutes shorter, it could have been worth recommending.

Admittedly, I would have never gone to see Fight Club if it hadn't been part of a class I'm taking at USC, but this film makes you wonder what it takes for the MPAA not to give a film an R rating. It's so gratuitously violent and downright gross (even in non-violent scenes) that Pulp Fiction looks tame by comparison.

Seriously, it's hyped as a violent film about non-violence, but isn't that akin to saying a film with gratuitous sex can be about abstinence. Sure, I guess it could, but you'd be hard pressed to find an example, just as I find it hard to believe that anyone honestly thinks this film is more than a glorified Faces Of Death with big name actors.

I don't know what else to say, but keep your kids (and yourself) away from this film.