Category: 3.5 Stars
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Cool Papa E Reviews The Mission: Impossible series
Mission: Impossible – 1996 Directed by Brian De Palma Starring Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emilio Estavez, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, Henry Czerny, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Written by David Koepp, Robert Towne Considered at the time to be a blasphemous departure to the original series is now seen as a pretty solid thriller.…
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Consider The Debt paid in full
The Debt – 2011 Directed by John Madden Starring Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington, Martin Csokas, Jesper Christensen Written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman, Peter Straughan After seeing her ridiculously dangerous beauty in the movie RED, I anticipated seeing Helen Mirren as an Israeli operative in The Debt would be at least as thrilling.…
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Cool Papa E Reviews The Movies of Todd Phillips, backwards
The Hangover, Part II – 2011 Written by Scot Armstrong, Craig Mazin and Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti Synopsis Second verse, same as the first, only this time it takes place in “Thighland,” Helms character is getting married and his future brother-in-law is the one getting married.…
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Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides must be viewed with subtitles on
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides Directed by Rob Marshall Starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Keith Richards, Kevin McNally, Richard Griffiths, Sam Claflin, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey Screenplay by Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott based on the book On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers It’s quite a testament that Geoffrey Rush has made it through…
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Water For Elephants is an easy job until the elephants arrive
Water for Elephants – 2011 Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattison, Christoph Waltz, Tai, Hal Holbrook, Paul Schneider, James Frain, Ken Foree, Tim Guinee, Mark Povinelli, Scott McDonald, Jim Norton, Richard Brake Written by Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Sara Gruen One thing that is apparent in watching the first half hour…
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The Complete Muppet Theatrical Movie Series, Reviewed by Cool Papa E
The Muppet Movie Release Date – June 22, 1979 Directed by James Frawley Starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz (The Muppets) Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton Written by Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl Review – The international phenomenon, for the first time on the big screen, would have been an easy film to…
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Just relax, enjoy the ride, ’cause you’re Fair Game
Fair Game – 2010 Directed by Doug Liman Starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Michael Kelley, Noah Emmerich, Ty Burrell, Sam Shepard, David Andrews, Adam LeFevre, Khaled Nabawy Written by Jez and John Butterworth “They lied. That’s the truth.” Five words, six if you count the apostrophe, that most succinctly describe the Cheney/Bush Administration. Many egregious…
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The Conspirator reveals a dangerous tipping point in our country’s history
The Conspirator – 2010 Directed by Robert Redford Starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline, Justin Long, Danny Huston, Alexis Bledel Written by James D. Solomon “…I too, hold sacred our rights, counselor. But they count, not at all, if our nation ceases to exist.” These words from Secretary of…
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Red State is a right turn in the career of Kevin Smith the director
Red State – 2011 Written & Directed by Kevin Smith Starring Michael Parks, John Goodman, Kevin Pollak, Melissa Leo, Stephen Root, Kerry Bishé, Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner When one considers the downward spiral that Kevin Smith’s career has taken lately, it can’t help but be noticed that it was with an obvious state of…
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Fast Five. Duh.
Fast Five – 2011 Directed by Justin Lin Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Joaquim de Almeida, Matt Schulze, Sung Kang Written by Chris Morgan This series is never going to end. At a point where most franchises have long run out of steam, this one made…
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