The Hunted (2003)

“I never had to kill anyone myself… just taught people how.” I felt like The Hunted (2003) received a muted reaction upon its release, because it looked too much like US Marshals, or Tommy Lee Jones in “catch ‘em” Fugitive mode. Also, that he and Benicio Del Toro – their Academy Award Winning status touted […]

Demonlover (2002)

demonlover (2002) is like later period William Gibson: it’s not about putting on the goggles and jacking into the cyberspace, but more about corporate espionage. I love French director Olivier Assayas in this mode – post-Irma Vep genre studies of women at work and under duress (see also: Boarding Gate and Personal Shopper) in a […]