Month: August 2010
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Cool Papa E’s Complete Harry Potter Movie Series Reviews
Having spent the first 2 movies avoiding Harry Potter, I was intrigued by the choice of director to finally watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. That movie, with its time-turner, Buckbeak and the incredible Gary Oldman, impressed me enough to give the rest of the series a chance. Still, I kept the series…
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Travolta and Rhys Meyers Not So Lovable in From Paris With Love
From Paris With Love Directed By Pierre Morel Starring John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and no one else worth mentioning Wow, this movie stinks. I was first introduced to this movie’s driving force, co-producer and co-writer Luc Besson in the 90’s with the incredible Leon: The Professional. That movie is a standard by which many action…
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Forgotten Gems: Outsourced shows that even India has its pride
Outsourced Directed by John Jeffcoat Starring Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Arjun Mathur, Siddarth Jadhav Written by George Wing, John Jeffcoat It’s almost impossible to go through any working space these days without finding someone who has been laid off. It happened to me in 2004, and although I eventually landed on my feet,…
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Jude Law is one of the self-loathing Repo Men
Repo Men Directed by Miguel Sapochnik Starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, John Leguizamo From the opening scene, when Law as Remy easily “collects” on a man who is past due on an organ of some kind, you can tell where this movie is going. He is good at what he does,…
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Forgotten Gems: August Rush
August Rush Directed by Kirsten Sheridan Starring Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terence Howard, Robin Williams Written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart, Paul Castro There is an amazing moment toward the end of August Rush, when our wayward protagonist, August Rush, plays a guitar duo with his father. Neither is aware of…
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Matt Damon’s The Green Zone plays like a hippie dream
The Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass Written by Brian Helgeland Starring Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Khalid Abdalla Jason Isaacs was in a movie earlier in the decade called Black Hawk Down. This movie, even with its dramatic flourishes and cliches, Ridley Scott got this right; the military always…
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Clash of the Titans is an interesting, if incomplete take
Clash of the Titans (2010) Directed by Louis Leterrier Starring Sam Worthington, Gemma Aterton, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Danny Huston, Mads Mikkelson Not since Nancy Kerrigan was knocked in the knee has there been such a hubub over something so unimportant as the late stage 3 D conversion of Clash of the Titans. There was…
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Jay Baruchel proves he is up for She’s Out of My League
She’s Out of My League Directed by Jim Field Smith Starring Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Mike Vigel, Nate Torrence, Krysten Ritter, Geoff Stults, Lindsay Sloane Jay Baruchel has been solid in several projects for the last few years. After barely reaching the public consciousness in the very short-lived Judd Apatow series “Undeclared,” his star steadily…
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Bruce Willis’ and Tracy Morgan’s Cop Out Gives a Plea to End Kevin Smith’s directing career
Cop Out Directed by Kevin Smith Starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Rashida Jones, Sean William Scott, Jason Lee, Kevin Pollak, Guillermo Diaz, Michele Trachtenberg At first, they were going to call this movie A Couple of Dicks, then the movie worked under or was considered for 3 other names. They ended up with, Cop Out.…
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