Category: Ratings
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Fincher’s The Social Network is a perfect marriage about an imperfect team
The Social Network – 2010 Director David Fincher Starring Jessie Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Brenda Song, Max Minghella, Joseph Mazzello Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich David Fincher is perhaps the finest director working today. He certainly is my favorite.…
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RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous): Kicking Ass, Taking Geritol
RED – 2010 Directed by Robert Schwentke Starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar, Rebecca Pidgeon, Julian McMahon, Richard Dreyfus Screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber RED is a movie that is in no way in love with itself. There are many people…
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Wall Street Money Never Sleeps and neither does Michael Douglas
Wall Street Money Never Sleeps – 2010 Directed by Oliver Stone Starring Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon Screenplay by Allan Loeb, Stephen Schiff based on characters created by Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser When Oliver Stone made the film Wall Street in 1987, he hoped to shed…
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The Last Exorcism is the father of lies being exposed
The Last Exorcism – 2010 Directed by Daniel Stamm Starring Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr, Caleb Landry Jones, Louis Hertham, Ashley Bell, Tony Bentley, Logan Craig Reed Screenplay by Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland Reverend Cotton Marcus (Fabian) thinks he is providing a service to the ignorant. A series of bells and whistles in a pretentious show…
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Forget sobriety: Get Him To The Greek
Get Him To The Greek (***) Written and Directed by Nicholas Stoller Starring Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elizabeth Moss, Sean Combs, Rose Byrne, Colm Meany It’s an interesting proposition to make a career portraying a sober rock star when you present yourself as someone who appears to be ill with drug abuse at all times.…
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You can throw Case 39 in the round file
Case 39 (*) Directed by Christian Alvart Starring Renée Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane, Jodell Ferland, Callum Keith Rennie, Kerry O’Malley Written by Ray Wright About 15 minutes into Case 39, social worker Emily Jenkins (Zellweger) and her friend, Det. Mike Barron (McShane), make a miraculous save of an innocent little girl (Ferland). The persons who had…
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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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Just looking for a heart like mine – Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale Directed by Lasse Hallström Starring Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Sara Roemer, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jason Alexander, Erick Avari Screenplay by Stephen P. Lindsey A movie comes around every once in a while that tells a tale so astounding, that no one could make it up. Back in 1920’s Japan, a professor at the…
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It takes a nation of Minions to make Despicable Me worth a look
Despicable Me – 2010 Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristin Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher Screenplay by Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul Whoever thought up those adorable little Minions saved this movie from being an hour and a half of puppy dog…
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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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