Dan Kois

Jack Goes Boating

Movie Review: Jack Goes Boating

GO  JACK GOES BOATING Jack Goes Boating is Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie — it's his directorial debut; he stars as its namesake sad sack; he wears his hair in those terrible dreadlocks that he covered with a big woollen hat at the Oscars last spring — but let's talk about......
Highwater

Movie Review: Highwater

GO HIGHWATER Sure to become a sacred text to surf-movie enthusiasts but surprisingly watchable even for those who think "goofy-footing" is a new hip-hop dance craze, Dana Brown's Highwater visits Oahu's North Shore during the three biggest surf tournaments of the year. As a sports story, Brown's movie underwhelms: In......

Twilight: Eclipse: Fetish Object

Why is Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series, so fantastically successful? Why does the audience shriek and moan and giggle throughout in feverish joy? Well, perhaps they’d do that no matter what, but Eclipse is the series' least-laughable installment yet, and director David Slade efficiently delivers the fan......