Archive for July, 2009

Vinyan review

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Vinyan (2008) Sony Pictures Home Recreation DVD Released: 4/7/2009 Video: Audio: 1/2 Extras: Review by Mike Long, Posted on 4/16/2009 Here's a question for you -- What is the definition of a horror movie? Does it have to contain a monster? Does something supernatural have to happen? Must it feature blood and gore? (I'm always surprised by how ...

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Amid the ring up generated by Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar-nominated operate b depend on in Blood Diamond and equally riveting jog in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Palm Pictures has re-released solitary of the actor's earliest film successes—which also reasonable happens to co-pre-eminent his dear Departed consociate (and fellow Oscar nominee), Look ...

Get Real (1999)

Friday, July 24th, 2009

In downtown Basingstoke, Steven is misery the torment of so many 16-year-olds. The song bodily he wishes he could dance with at the opinion disco is taken already. Sigh. And weep for again, because Steven is gay, and that special someone is a very straight guy known to every Tom ...

November 2003 SITE MAP SEARCH…

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

November 2003 SITE MAP SEARCH Who Am I? type: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak, and Ed Nelson directors: Jackie Chan, Benny Chan 104 minutes (12) 1998 widescreen ratio 2.35:1 Columbia Tristar DVD Region 2 retail RATING: 7/10 reviewed by Tony Lee It's interesting to pack this Hong Kong comedy thriller, produced by Raymond Chow's Optimistic Harvest, alongside rather more ...

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

The writing credit on this movie lists seven different people. Just how much quicker is it to have seven people come up with multiple fart, sex, penis, barf and crap jokes? Is it any less time than it would take for, say, a group of preschool children? I bet not. ...

Letters From Iwo Jima review

Friday, July 10th, 2009

In 1945, the Pacific war against Japan was nearing its end when the United States made plans to launch its next attack on the first of the Japanese home islands. Director Clint Eastwood, working with a script by Iris Yamashita, tells of this famous battle through the eyes of the island’s defenders in “Letters ...

Movie: Have you ever heard th…

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Movie: Have you ever heard the saying, "The grass is at all times greener..."? It's a pretty common theme in movies all over the world. The leader is unsatisfied with his life or circumstances and thinks he can improve them by some means or another. Typically, this involves unstationary from ...

Caramel review

Monday, July 6th, 2009

  Caramel (2007) Directed by Nadine Labaki Written by Rodney El Haddad, Jihad Hojeily and Nadine Labaki Starring Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Mukarsel, Gisele Aouad, Sihame Haddad, Adel Karam Rated PG Run Time: 96 minutes http://www.caramelthemovie.com/ In Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic movie about men and power, There Will Be Blood , there is hardly a woman in sight. ...

Rwanda, 1994. The Ecole Techni…

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Rwanda, 1994. The Ecole Talent Officielle in Kigali has been run inasmuch as ten years by Father Christopher (John Hurt), now passing on his think the world of and understanding of Africa to Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy), an eager and idealistic if unpretending young graduate from England. As the Hutu’s ...

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Warner Bros. has released the Natalie Wood Collection boxed set, featuring six of her studio contract films she starred in during the 1950s and 1960s: 1957's military/family drama Bombers B-52; 1960's high-finance romantic drama Cash McCall, 1961's beautiful, heartbreaking youth drama Splendor in the Grass; 1962's Broadway musical adaptation ...