*Gene Siskel nearing the end of his review*
“And due to the impracticality of Dog Man, I have to vote thumbs down”
Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director’s chair in his long-awaited Megalopolis, one of four new films we’ll be reviewing this week on Siskel and Ebert.
I’m Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.
And I’m Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, and our first film is Megalopolis and what a load of fucking shit this movie is
Jerry Seinfeld makes his movie directorial debut and his first acting role since 2007's Bee Movie in Unfrosted, a fictionalized story about the creation of the breakfast staple, the pop-tart. Those looking forward to this movie, I am sorry to report that this will go down as one of the worst movies of the year.
This is a shockingly-bad film with a star-studded cast, decent cinematography for a story taking place in the 1960s, and an interesting premise if you…
Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts play the slinky brunette and the bubbly blonde in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, one of the few brilliant movies in a disappointing year. This is a Hollywood film noir told entirely within a dream and there are no waking moments as far as I'm concerned and like a dream it lingers on what it finds fascinating, it shortcuts the dead-ends, it includes bits & pieces of other dreams, and it touches on various real memories. …