25th Hour

25th Hour reads as a very angry love letter from Spike Lee to New York City.  It’s certainly one of Lee’s better joints, the piece of a competent, mature filmmaker, not some of the blathering drivel we’ve seen in some of his movies.  25th Hour is well worth checking out. The story follows Irish, New York drug dealer Monty (the impeccable Edward Norton).  He’s not big time, but not necessarily small time either.  The police... Read More

The Minus Man

It’s difficult to believe Owen Wilson as anything but the character he’s been typecast as lately (see You, Me, and Dupree, Drillbit Taylor).  His overly familiar voice sounds ironic, even when he’s trying not to be.  Even so, The Minus Man is a successfully creepy movie about a seriel poisoner named Vann. Vann seems to have no direction, and he’s driving through the northwest.  He wastes no time poisoning those around him... Read More