Category: Fantasy
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Twilight: Eclipse story is good, action better, head shots a little close
Twilight: Eclipse Director David Slade Starring Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Billy Burke, Dakota Fanning, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellen Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Anna Kendrick Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer There’s a point in Eclipse, the third movie in…
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Baruchel makes The Sorcerer’s Apprentice a worthy subject
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2010 Directed By John Turtletaub Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Alice Krige, Monica Bellucci, Teresa Palmer Screenplay by Matt Lopez, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal very loosely based on the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a point just past half way of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice when the young…
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How to Train Your Dragon is perfectly fun
How To Train Your Dragon Directed By – Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois Featuring the Voices of – Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig Story by – Cressida Cowell adapted by Adam F. Goldberg, Peter Tolan, Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders Dreamworks has been…
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Gyllenhaal Brings The Wacky Pain in Prince of Persia The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time Directed by Mike Newell Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina At first, I thought that this movie was trying to outdo Brokeback Mountain in the homo-erotic delights. Having seen more of Jake Gyllenhaal’s chest hair than I ever wanted to see in the first 15 minutes,…
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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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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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Percy Jackson & The Olympians – The Lightening Thief is one long title and a decent kid’s movie
Percy Jackson & The Olympians – The Lightning Thief Directed by Chris Columbus Starring Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Alexandria Daddario, Jake Abel, Uma Thurman, Joey Pantoliano, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson Screenplay by Craig Titley and Joe Stillman based on the Novel by Rick Riordan That this…
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The Road is hopeless, heartsick and brave
The Road Directed by John Hillcoat Starring Viggo Mortenson, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael K. Williams, Charleze Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce The Road is impeccably acted, well-directed and with an excellent screenplay. Even so I can never watch this movie again. My heart could not handle it. Taking a view of the apocalypse to the point…
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So…Alice is Wonderful; Depp…not so much
Alice in Wonderland Director: Tim Burton Starring Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman There was the book, Alice in Wonderland. This movie isn’t about that, so much. Then there was the book, Through The Looking Glass, and, What Alice Found There. This movie isn’t about that,…
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Twilight: New Moon serves up a heaping helping…for the ladies.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattison Director: Chris Weitz Halfway through watching “Twilight Saga: New Moon” (TSNM), it occurred to me that I had not thought of “Interview With A Vampire” (IWAV)since about a year after it came out. IWAV made big waves before it came out, mainly due to the choice of Tom…
Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews 