Category: Mystery / Thriller
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 3: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, but good
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – 2009 Directed by Daniel Alfredson Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Mike Spreitz, Annika Hallin, Aksel Morisse, Georgi Staykov, Anders Ahlbom Written by Jonas Frykberg, Ulf Rydberg, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson There is a moment early on when Lisbeth Salander (Rapace) lays nearly helpless in the…
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The A-Team rates a solid C+
The A-Team – 2010 – Unrated Edition Director – Joe Carnahan Starring – Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Patrick Wilson, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copely, Jessica Biel, Gerald McRaney, Brian Bloom, Henry Czerny, John Hamm Written by – Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom, Skip Woods Of course I avoided The A-Team this summer when it came out, and…
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Winter’s Bone shows an the all too real effect of Meth
Winter’s Bone – 2010 Directed by Debra Granik Starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garrett Dillahunt, Lauren Sweester, Dale Dickey, Shelly Waggener Written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini based on the book by Daniel Woodrell In all honesty, as good a movie as Winter’s Bone, I don’t think I could ever watch it again. It…
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Ryan Reynolds provides depth to Buried
Buried – 2010 Directed by Rodrigo Cortes Starring Ryan Reynolds Written by Chris Sparling The first thing one thinks when seeing the first light in the movie Buried (several minutes into the film) is: “Now that you that you know you are in a box with limited air, for God sakes turn off that oxygen…
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Cool Papa E Reviews the original SCREAM Trilogy
The most original horror movie to be unleashed upon the world since Halloween, Scream literally re-invented the slasher flick on December 20, 1996. Wes Craven, the director of The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, and more notably, A Nightmare on Elm Street, committed to direct a screenplay by Kevin Williamson. In…
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Samuel L. Jackson stares down the Unthinkable
Unthinkable – 2010 Director – Gregor Jordan Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie Anne Moss, Brandon Routh, Stephen Root, Michael Sheen, Gil Bellows, Martin Donovan Screenplay by Oren Moverman, Peter Woodward There is a scene early in Unthinkable where special interrogator named “H”, played with a simple, elegant wisdom by Samuel L. Jackson, interrupts a standard…
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Jolie’s Salt hits all the spots, should try to miss a few
Salt – 2010 Directed by Philip Noyce Starring – Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor Screenplay by – Kurt Wimmer, Brian Helgeland There are 3 versions of the movie Salt, with none of them substantially differing from the rest, in terms of predictability. This is hard to do, but the makers of the film manage to…
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Inception plants the idea of perfection
Inception -2010 Written and Directed by Chris Nolan Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Lukas Haas, Dileep Rao, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Pete Postlethwaite In all the films I have seen in my life, maybe three made me feel like I needed to be an adult…
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 2: The Girl Who Played With Fire continues a fearless journey
The Girl Who Played With Fire Directed by Daniel Alfredson Written by Jonas Frykberg based on a story by Stieg Larsson Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist There is a moment 27 minutes into The Girl Who Played With Fire when Mikael Blomkvist, working on a sex trafficking investigation, gets a ride from his sister over…
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 1: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a journey towards righteousness
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Swedish) Directed By Niels Arden Oplev Starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sven-Bertil Taube Written by Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg as an Adpatation of the original novel written by Stieg Larss0n As someone who witnessed the gang rape of a girl, named Lisbeth, when a young man of 15,…
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