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Wednesday, July 02, 2008. Some brief thoughts about the movies I have seen so far this summer:. Wasn't more like Jean-Claude Van Damme's. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. It's crap. If I get started on all of the film's flaws again, I'll be sitting here typing for hours. So please see my full review. YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN and THE LOVE GURU. I lump these two films together for a couple of reasons. One is that the premises of both movies are seemingly absurd. Is probably a better...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008. Who is The Batman? So, as far as lame disguises go, it's probably fair to say that Superman's ranks pretty high on the ". Scale I mean, Clark Kent takes off his glasses, puts his underpants on the outside, and he's suddenly unrecognizable? It seems as if wearing some sort of mask would be considerably more effective as a means of hiding one's identity. Well, lets put it to the test. How many of the following Hollywood jaws can you identify? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Sunday, February 15, 2009. I may have been a tad harsh towards the Academy Awards the other day. Now that we're in the home stretch, the one week countdown has begun, I'm beginning to feel the symptoms of Oscar fever. You see, what those tricksters over at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of course, Alfred Hitchcock once said,. This year, for the first time, I'm going with the heart instead of the head. Though I have had considerable success anticipating who. Best Performance by an Actres...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Dir Alex van Warmerdam, 2006. If anyone has stopped by my little site here over the last several. And when one has a readership of. It is hard to justify one's blogging efforts as anything but frivolous. So Did I Miss Something? Was relegated to the back-burner for a little while. Alex van Warmerdam's Ober. In all fairness, I tend to be skeptical of films from the Netherlands (which are similar in style to Scandinavian cinema). I'm no philistine, but I have encountered ...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009. A series of posts in which an amateur film critic discusses ten movies he loves, in no particular order, that may or may not be his favorites. For all of its indelible performances, famous moments, and oft-quoted dialogue, the first thing that comes to mind when I think about Casablanca is the Marseillaise sequence. I can't believe the number of times I've been choked up while watching this scene:. Mareichtag and I are speaking nothing but English now. Very nice idea, mm-hmm.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008. Indiana Jones and the Phantom Menace. It is with a heavy heart that I prepare to malign the summer movie I had most hoped to enjoy. I say "hoped" rather t han "expected" because, as a "purist" fanboy, the manner in which George Lucas disappointed me with his revisiting of the Star Wars franchise is still fresh in my mind. I have been conditioned to. Whiplash: Indiana Jones and the Lowered Expectations. I find there to be a certain laziness permeating The Kingdom of the Crystal.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009. A myriad trusted critics, including the likes of Roger Ebert and A.O. Scott, have plunked WALL-E. Into their lists of the top ten films of 2008. According to. The latest Disney/Pixar release is amongst the top reviewed movies of the annum, garnering a 96% approval rating from some 200 contributing writers. It was also a top-grossing film, fifth in the U.S. last year. And, certainly, some of their movies are more juvenile than others. Finding Nemo. A Bug’s Life. We see the ma...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008. To be perfectly honest, I think I liked the trailer better (see the ONION's take on. Below). The summer's first blockbuster is certainly better than some of Marvel Studio's previous offerings, misfires like. Even sails above other super hero movies that had budget enough to achieve more than they did: Ang Lee's. But recent franchises such as Spiderman, the X-Men, and Batman have set the bar pretty high, particularly in terms of their screenplays, and everything that works in.
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Thursday, May 25, 2006. Review: once upon a time in the west. 1968- dir. Sergio Leone. Starring- Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale. Circa summer 1991, my dad reluctantly John-Henr. A contract that would allow cable television to be installed in our home. His decision was, perhaps, inspired by the fact that our family was embarrassingly behind the times- we had. We got "the whole package.". This included, what was known at the time as, " First Choice. Now, The Movie Network.
