Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The tone, casting and bodily form a less-than-perfect match in "Married Subsistence," a period domestic drama that never perfectly decides if it wants to be a credible marital study, a noirish meller or a sly comedy. The talented quartet of lead players feel oddly paired in this curious tale of ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Apatow Takes On Biopics in
Go by Hard
And weird cameos.
Since
musical biographies keep sweeping the Oscars every year, it?s upon time a
comedian took the piss out of them.
features
"It's a
pretty remarkable discharge by John C. Reilly because he is the guy that would
put on that part [in a ...
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
A Liberal bishop is taken hostage in a prison by his boyhood chum, Simon, in 1952. Simon forces his boyhood friend to reenact the events that shaped both their lives forty years earlier.
Dorian_Gray
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
In "Michael Clayton," his first film as a writer-director, Tony Gilroy weighed his screenplay down with unnecessary detail, and he directed it in an uninflected way, as though every scene had equal weight. The result was a movie that was hard to follow. Yet he saved it by keeping ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
'Born Into Brothels'
Oscar winner zooms in on kids in crisis
Friday, March 11, 2005
By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Mail-Gazette
There was much to be debunked and debated in last year's two breakout documentaries: Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me."
'Born Into Brothels'
Rating:
R to sequences of strong lingo.
Directors:
Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
The ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Charlotte wasn't the principal character in James' 1904 novel of infidelity
and betrayal, but in the film version by director James Ivory and producer
Ismail Merchant, she takes center stage. Played by the long-necked Uma Thurman,
she's less vixen than ninny -- a smooth operator whose maneuvers seem to
issue not ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is an egotistical New Yorker who believes he has mastered the art of picking up women. Dumped by his boss and lover Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), Roger is further annoyed when his 16 year-bygone nephew Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives unannounced and asks if Roger ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
"It's filled with the filmmaker's
rage and despair over the Persian Gulf war."
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A very powerful war drama by indie American filmmaker John Gianvito,
made before 9/11. It's filled with the filmmaker's rage and despair over
the Persian Gulf war and its dire consequences in America and across the
world. Gianvito, a ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Let the "Good Nicolas Cage" Vs. "Bad Nicolas Cage" debate rage on, as we get up till another benchmark of the latter in Next.
Cris "Frank Cadillac" Johnson (Cage) is a Houdini with a cheesy gig in Las Vegas who has a insecure edge once again his competition. ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
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