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Monday, December 17th, 2007I swore I’d be one of the first to post this, and here it is… the first official trailer for The Dark Knight (aka Batman Begins 2 2008). I’m skipping the usual write-up on this one, cuz I’ve got to get to bed. Here’s the official website and the Harvey Dent campaign site. [...]
review: rendition (2007)
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Peace, at what cost? Is a decent part of the question asked in the new movie Rendition (2007). The term itself originally described a ‘handing over’ of a person from one jurisdiction to another; also known as extradition. But the CIA was granted permission to use rendition in a presidential directive that [...]
review: 30 days of night (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007First I insist you click here to read the preview I wrote for this movie and see the trailer posted there.
My peaceful fantasies about someday moving to Alaska have been severely crippled with the screening of 30 Days of Night (2007). But that doesn’t stop me from loving this totally kick ass movie by [...]
review: elizabeth, the golden age (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007I think Cate Blanchett (Oscar winner for The Aviator 2004) could sit back and just make a career out of playing queen Elizabeth I. She pulled it off seamlessly for a second time in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). A performance good enough that it should secure her at least another nomination, if [...]
review: across the universe (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007First let me direct you to my preview write-up of this film that you can find here. That’s where you can also see a trailer for the movie.
One of the best movies to be released in years is Across the Universe (2007). In the style of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Tommy (1975) [...]
review: torn curtain (1966)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I wonder how many times it actually happened in real life, but Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966) tells the story of an American who defects to communist East Germany. Ok, the story is a bit more complicated than that; the more interesting part being how he gets back out. Hitchcock’s 50th film stars [...]
review: the trouble with harry (1955)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Alfred Hitchcock’s most optimistic movie, The Trouble with Harry (1955), is “a comedy about a corpse.” Seems harry has died and no one knows who did it, how it was done, or what to do with the body. This screenplay by John Michael Hayes (Oscar nominee for Rear Window 1954) reads easily as [...]
review: the man who knew too much (1956)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007In my last review I stated that Frenzy (1972) was Alfred Hitchcock’s first filming in Britain in almost twenty years, the previous movie being The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). This movie also took its stars James Stewart (Oscar winner for The Philadelphia Story 1940) and Doris Day (Oscar nominee for Pillow Talk [...]
review: frenzy (1972)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Alfred Hitchcock’s only X-rated movie was Frenzy (1972), and that was only because a few brief nude scenes and because the murderer raped his victims before strangling them with his neck tie. This was his second to last film before he died; and his first British film in almost twenty years. As is [...]
review: butterfly on a wheel (aka shattered 2007)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007The sexiest man alive, Gerard Butler, follows up 300 (2006) with the worst movie of his career Butterfly on a Wheel (aka Shattered 2007). It’s so bad that it skipped video and went straight to television. About kidnapping and a well executed plan to destroy a family, this film also stars Pierce Brosnan [...]
review: the jane austen book club (2007)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Ladies, looking for a cute little movie to help pass your afternoon? Give The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) a try. Written and directed by Robin Swicord, who also penned the screenplay to Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). This film is based on the novel by Karen Joy Fowler, about a book [...]
fall movie previews for november
Friday, September 28th, 2007These are some of my recommendations for November. Take them, or leave them. But you know I’ll be there.
American Gangster (2007) - This movie started off as just an article called “the return of superfly” in a New York magazine. When Universal picked it up in 2000, it changed the name to [...]
poster art: skorpion, panna i lucznik (1973)
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Surprisingly Poland has put out some really amazing movie poster art over the years. Often it is so far out that it barely resembles the theme of the movie it’s representing. This one is actually quite tame, but in the future I’ll give some other examples.
This is for the film Skorpion, Panna [...]
review: eastern promises (2007)
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007As David Cronenberg’s (Naked Lunch 1991) most normal film to date, Eastern Promises (2007) seems a bit bland on the surface, but actually stays with you for a while. When leaving the theater I thought “ok”; and seeing a naked Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) in a very vigorous [...]
review: resident evil – extinction (2007)
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I’ve got a huge girl crush on Milla Jovovich and a slightly smaller crush on Oded Fehr (The Mummy 1999) so seeing them together in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) definitely earned the movie some brownie points. This third installment in the video game themed trilogy is a little better than the second, but not [...]
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