DEREKFLINT

Love this little film, that reminds me somewhat of the original Japanese gem, SHALL WE DANCE? (not the overblown Gere/Jlo remake...) Luckily I found it and taped it when it was showing on a STARZ Promo Weekend, because as far as I know, it's not available on DVD. I'll watch just about anything with Yancy Butler (anyone remember the short-lived TV series MANN AND MACHINE ???) in it, and she positively shines in this. She does a dance routine to a disco song that is verrrryyyyyy HOT!! Loved all the other characters in it, especially the ones played by Patrick Stewart and Leslie Caron (where's she been all these years?). This is one of those films that I take out from time to time and always come away smiling after watching it. Recommended highly!!!

I went to see THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and got a major headache from trying to make sense of the "dizzy-cam" filming, which seems to be the vogue now,of the action sequences. Likewise, I ROBOT, with the automatons - on-crack bouncing off the walls while Will "Too Cool For This World" Smith single-handedly beats the nuts and bolts out of them. Appearantly he has super-peripheral vison as well because he can keep track of all 50 of them coming at him at once. I digress. THE VILLAGE, like M. Night Shyamalan's other films, returns to a kinder, gentler time of filmmaking when the viewer could actually be drawn into a story at a normal pace, with character development, beautiful and lush orchestration and a gripping drama that picks up the pace as it goes along. About the first 2 movies I mentioned - I liked them, but found them forgettable 20 minutes after I left the theatre. About THE VILLAGE - it's the kind of movie experience that only comes along once in a blue moon, or at least when Mr. Shyamalan puts a film out. I give it a 10+++