Articles by Ian Mackenzie

The Bank

Robert Connolly

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

With allusions to fractal geometry and anti-bank rhetoric, this Australian production shuffles competently along to its predictable conclus...

Dopamine

Mark Decena

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

A team of San Francisco computer programmers are hired by Japanese investors to develop an interactive computer personality, a bird-like pl...

Cheaper by the Dozen

Shawn Levy

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

Steve Martin (Parenthood) takes another stab at the touching family comedy genre with this remake of the 1950 Walter Lang film Cheaper By T...

The Heart of Me

Thaddeus O'Sullivan

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

The Heart of Me is a relatively engaging romantic drama set in England between the first and second World Wars. An ill-advised affair with...

Never Die Alone

Ernest Dickerson

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

After wearing out his East Coast welcome, small-time drug lord King David (DMX) heads to California with a bag of stolen heroin and aspirat...

Jeremiah: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

This terrible MGM series never recovers from the absurd assumptions plaguing its pilot episode. The first assumption is that in the wake of...

The Last Samurai

Edward Zwick

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

The Last Samurai is the third excellent film about Japan to come out of Hollywood this year. But where both Kill Bill and Lost in Translati...

The Housekeeper

Claude Berri

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

After his 15-year relationship disintegrates, Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) falls into a depressive funk, which is evidenced by the filth acc...