Category: 3.5 Stars
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Pirate Radio is a boat full, but it’s fun
Pirate Radio Directed by Richard Curtis Starring – Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Talulah Riley So, pretty much everything you hear on the trailer voice over here is bunk: That said, this still is a pretty good flick. Hoffman’s character was not the person who…
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Pixar: Cool Papa E and Family Rank The First 10 Pixar Movies
Pixar – The First 10 Marking the release of Toy Story 3 marking the release of the 11th Pixar Film, I thought it was an obvious point for a review of the series. Each one of these films has been a classic or near masterpiece and the best animated film of the year. With that…
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Mel Gibson is on the Edge of Darkness
Director: Martin Campbell Starring: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston Screenplay by: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell, Troy Kennedy Martin adapted from Martin’s BBC Series Mel Gibson has taken a lot of hits in the last five years. Not all of it unwarranted, but most of it has been. His big problem, he is a Christian,…
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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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“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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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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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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