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Hello everybody out there hoping to catch Case Bowman, I'm not Case. Case is in the operating room having emergency surgery to remove his foot from his mouth, but will be back next week with a review of Spike Lee's new joint, He's Got Game. As to this week, I'm Mike Stevens, the producer of this here show, and I'll be giving the review for Sliding Doors. This Miramax release, which by the way they never have sent me any press passes for their premiers-those damn bastards make me pay the full 45 dollars it costs to get in to a movie these days. Well enough about me, as I was saying, those Miramax boys put together this little romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The film is directed by Peter Howitt, no one I've ever heard of, who also wrote the screenplay. Paltrow (Great Expectations) is the star of the show but John Hannah's character steals the show with a bunch of great one-liners like, "you know what those Monty Python boys say, they never expect the Spanish Inquisition!" Hannah play's Paltrow's new love interest in one of the story lines and nobody in the other , say what? The quirky thing about this movie, and it takes a little time to get used to, is that the film follows Paltrow down two possible lives that diverge at a train station, in one life she catches the train and in the other she misses it. From here o n the audience might get confused as the director cuts back and forth between the two story lines, sometimes in works perfectly and at other times it just doesn't work. The backdrop for the movie is London where Paltrow starts off as a PR person before getting fired, at which point she looks for other work. Back to John Hannah's character, James, who plays his supporting role extremely well, who you might recognize from Four Weddings and a Funeral-the young gay guy who reads the farewell poem at the funeral . Anyway James is a character the women will love because he's witty, smart, attractive, sensitive, and as Dan Patrick might say, enfwago. He has a ton of one liners and sounds so British, I guess that's cause he is British. As to the other actors, John Lynch is supposed to be some sort of great Irish actor, it may be just me but I didn't think his performance was that great, or maybe I was to perplexed as to why his character would cheat on Paltrow's character, I mean what kind of idiot would cheat on Gwyneth Paltrow for Jeanne Tripplehorn, there's just now comparison between the two, and for the record I like Paltrow's hair in the story line in which she catches the train. The last person to note is Douglas McFerran who plays Russell, the best friend of Lynch's character, Lynch being the lying cheating jerk-off. McFerran also has some great lines and makes the scenes that he is in come alive with working class humor. Sliding Doors runs for an hour and 45 minutes, is rated "R", but unfortunately I don't remember any nudity. Besides a great movie, Sliding Doors also has nice soundtrack. OK, my rating for this great date movie, guys you might even get lucky after this one, is eight couches out of the usual ten. Which makes it the highest rating, and only rating , I've ever given, and may or may not be the best movie I have seen this year. The answer to the best comes down to whether or not Good Will Hunting would count for this year since I saw it during the last showing on New Year's Eve. But again, enough about me, more about the show. I recommend seeing Sliding Doors this weekend, watch Out and About next week when Case returns with a review of He's Got Game, and finally, thanks for watching and goodnight. Oh, wait, first back to Shanna. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:15 AM |
