Thursday, September 30, 2004

I Heart Huckabees

This is our inaugural review here at littleboxes movies. We hope to bring you a nice mix of outside movie reviews and our own relfections on what was good, what is good, and what just plain sucks. Will we offer anything unique? Well, at the moment we have no plans to, but hey, things change.

None of us have seen I Heart Huckabees but we think this one is a good one. We read the ever-reliable Peter Travers's review in Rolling Stone. Mr. Travers seemed to like the movie while acknowledging that the New Yorker apparently hates it. We will take his word for it. "The New Yorker, yes, the New Yorker"--Chris Cooper is Adaptation.

We especially liked this line from Travers's review:
"Best of all is Mark Wahlberg as Tommy, an angry post-9/11 firefighter so against Big Oil that he rides to fire scenes on his bike."

David O. Russell directed this film. He also directed Three Kings and we loved that movie.

One of our staff just blurted out that Travers is a corporate whore, so, if you also feel that way, take his review with a grain of salt or something.