Author: coolpapae
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Life As We Know It is every romantic comedy as we know (and sometimes love) them
Life As We Know It – 2010 Directed by Greg Berlanti Starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Burns, Faizon Love Written by Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson There is a lot going on here, in this romantic comedy. The start is somewhat natural, given that the two leads have a meet-cute that…
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127 Hours allows the discovery of the weight of life
127 Hours – 2010 Directed by Danny Boyle Starring James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clémence Poésy, Lizzy Kaplan, Treat Williams, Kate Burton Written by Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle based on the story “Between A Rock And A Hard Place” by Aron Ralston Aron Ralston (Franco) is an intelligent guy. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was…
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Skyline is clear of good acting, unpredictable story
Skyline – 2010 Directed by The Brothers Strause Starring Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, David Zayas Written by Joshua Cordes, Liam O’Donnell One of the things that bugs me most about Stephen Speilberg is that he tends to proselytize, and while doing it, commits some of the most pedestrian directorial…
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Burlesque is about…119 minutes
Burlesque – 2010 Directed by Steve Antin Starring Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Stanley Tucci, Julianne Hough, Kristin Bell, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher Written by Steve Antin, Diablo Cody So, tell us a bit about yourself – My name is Cool Papa, father of two girls with first names that start with an “E,” but…
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Tangled starts a new era of golden classics
Tangled – 2010 Directed by Nathan Grano, Byron Howard Starring the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Brad Garrett, Ron Perlman Written by Dan Fogelman, based on the story “Rapunzel” by The Brothers Grimm When I first heard about the Disney update of “Rapunzel” being the first classic redone digitally, like all the…
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Unstoppable is a long train running for Denzel, Pine
Unstoppable – 2010 Directed by Tony Scott Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Dunn, Ethan Supplie, Kevin Corrigan, Lew Temple, T.J. Miller, Jessy Schram Written by Mark Bowen Lew Temple is someone I cannot recall having seen before, although he has been in a handful of decent films in bit parts. His role…
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Due Date is a crude, vulgar and unrelenting buddy movie
Due Date – 2010 Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan Screenplay by Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Adam Sztykiel, Todd Phillips Todd Phillips is an enigmatic wonderland. There are moments in his films that make one want to turn it off. These are often followed by moments that…
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The Fighter is tailor made by Wahlberg
The Fighter – 2010 Director David O. Russell Starring Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and a horde of Irish Sisters Written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamsay, Eric Johnson Every Oscar season is back loaded with all types of movies like The Fighter. They ought to just call every fall the Reader’s Digest…
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How Do You Know when a movie is too long?
How Do You Know – 2010 Written and Directed by James L. Brooks Starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson When George Lucas made his horrible Star Wars prequels, many cynical people just assumed it was a money grab. While Lucas is acutely aware of the process in which profit is accrued, he…
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If you don’t count the special effects, Let Me In is a classic
Let Me In – 2010 Written and Directed by Matt Reeves Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Kotas, Richard Jenkins Let Me In early on has a scene so unsettling that, left unexplained, would have led me to think of it as a very different movie. A boy, aged 12, sits alone in his room…
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