Category: 4 Stars
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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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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World doesn’t require an explanation
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – 2010 Directed by Edgar Wright Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alfie Rackley, Ellen Wong, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons Screenplay by Edgar Wright, Michael Bacall based on the comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley The first best thing about Scott Pilgrim vs.…
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The Kids are All Right…Dad’s a Pandora’s Box
The Kids are All Right – 2010 Directed by Lisa Cholodenko Starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson Written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg The myth of Pandora’s Box has been portrayed as a misogynist rant against the women’s womb over the last 140 years or so. True or not, there…
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If you love your daughter(s), you’ll love Ramona and Beezus
Ramona and Beezus – 2010 Directed by Elizabeth Allen Starring Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Josh Duhamel, Ginnifer Goodwin, Hutch Dano, Sandra Oh Written by Laurie Craid, Nick Pustay from the series of books by Beverly Cleary First thing’s first: this movie should just be called Ramona, as it takes many of…
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Knight and Day is Cruise at his frenetic best and Diaz ain’t bad either
Knight and Day -2010 Director James Mangold Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, Viola Davis, Jordi Molla Screenplay Patrick O’Neill and about 11 others From out of development hell, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz play what is essentially a North by Northwest with Diaz in the Cary Grant role…
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CPE’s Prometheus / Predator / Alien Universe Chronological Timeline Reviews
With the release of the first good Predator film in almost 25 years, and the making (by Ridley Scott) of an Alien prequel, Prometheus, now is a great time to review the two series as a whole. Both series have gone to hell and back (sometimes together), but overall, the entire series has provided many intense,…
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These Predators hardly take anyone out like chumps…
Predators Directed by Nimród Antal Starring Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Louis Ozawa Changchien Screenplay story by Robert Rodriguez adapted by Michael Finch and Alex Litvak When I heard that Robert Rodriguez was involved with the making of the new Predators movie, I was thrilled.…
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Freeman, Damon and Eastwood Give Invictus a Simple Grace
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath…
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Gervais and the Ghost Town citizens are quite charming
Ghost Town Directed by David Koepp Starring Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Dana Ivey, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Ruck Written by David Koepp and John Kamps David Koepp has had part in very many blockbusters. The writer of great movies like Jurassic Park, Spiderman, Carlito’s Way and Men in Black, good…
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