Category: Movie Reviews
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From the Blind Side into the Light
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw Director: John Lee Hancock Sandra Bullock is one of those actresses I have taken for granted. This is not without reason. She definitely is a smart woman, having produced many of her own films and worked on her own terms for several years. This has led to surprise…
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Fantastic Fabulous Fox About Town
The Fantastic Mr. Fox Starring (voices): George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Eric Chase Anderson, Wallace Wolardarsky Director: Wes Anderson “You know, foxes live in holes. For a reason.” “Yes, and no.” The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Clooney) has his own idea of life. Problem for everyone else is, his plan does…
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“9″ is a good case for film school
9 Starring (voices): Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover Directed by Shane Acker A visual spectacle that almost evenly divided viewers and critics alike, “9” is a movie that is adventurous and challenging for the eyes, but complacent in its simplistic storyline. It begins with the death of a nameless Gepetto-like…
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Moon control to Major Sam
Moon (2009) Starring: Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey Director: Duncan Jones Moon is by no means original. It has a very slow, somewhat awkward pace that kind of ambles in spots. It feels like it could have been made in the 70’s without skipping a beat. I liked it. The film…
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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…
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Got a bad case of Pandorum
Starring: Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid and a bunch of low priced talent. Director: Christian Alvart There are a lot of films that on their face, look like they must be avoided. Yet, deep in the sub-cockles of one’s heart, something draws you back. “Pandorum” is one of those films. There are lots of moments in…
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Up In The Air…sort of
Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick Director: Jason Reitman This is a conventional movie about an unconventional occupation. George Clooney is a charming man, given an charmless job as a designated hitter of firing. When a company can’t do the job of face to face meetings of people they just screwed over, then they…
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Time Traveler’s Wife – Suffering like the best of ‘em
Starring: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston Director: Robert Schwentke Time travel in films can be a tricky proposition, even if handled in a near linear manner. I was influenced early on by watching “Back To The Future” and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” These movies taught that travelling through time can be tricky,…
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A Pretty Good, if not A Perfect Getaway
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich Director: David Twohy In the age of HD, a movie like A Perfect Getaway will get me to rent a little sooner than several other movies of equal star power strictly for the promise of good use of imagery. Beyond that, I have been a big…
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2012 – Just when you thought the world had about ended…
For those of you who did not sense a pattern in Roland Emmerich’s repertoire, the guy likes to put his characters through a lot of permanently changing scenery. Starting small with the brainless blockbuster, “Universal Soldier,” he and his fellow auteur Dean Devlin convinced studios to allow them progressively bigger budgets for progressively bigger movies with progressively…
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