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The finale of Zombieland fittingly takes place in a theme park, which I can only imagine is the writers and director acknowledging the no-thought-required good-time nature of the proceedings. It may never be very deep – no one is confusing this film with one of George A. Romero’s social commentary zombie flicks – but it’s still a helluva lot of fun regardless. Our reluctant hero and geek

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Very no-frills escapist filmmaking, director David Twohy must have been on a short leash following the disaster of The Chronicles of Riddick and abandoned his sci-fi roots for a more mainstream thriller with lots of beautiful people and a beautiful Hawaii locale. And for what it is, this whodunit storyline that tries to play around with genre conventions goes down easily enough. We’ve got two

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One of the characteristics that I most appreciated about Marc Webb’s debut feature (500) Days of Summer was its adherence to depicting a relationship unto itself in all its highs and lows, from courtship to break-up and maybe back again. There’s no infidelity that leads to a huge blow-up, no manufactured drama to push the plot forward. One day Tom Hanson (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey

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Sacha Baron Cohen claims his anti-Semitic Kazakhstanian alter ego Borat Sagdiyev is used as a means to lower the guard of interviewees and expose their own intrinsic racisms or indifference to racism. What then does Bruno, his homosexual Austrian character, expose? The irritating, effrontery with which Bruno conducts himself ruins any chance of garnering a real reaction or anything that can be

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While talking up Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino regularly mentioned setting out to make a “men on a mission” movie. The Basterds mission? The simple, depthless goal of killing as many Nazis as possible… in all sorts of torturous and barbaric ways. The trailers themselves all but guaranteed this as “The Jewish Revenge” movie. Thankfully then, this is not the Basterds movie and the

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Evidence that sometimes the people responsible for the trailer should be allowed to re-cut the movie, every joke and edit work far better in the preview than they do in the actual film. Away We Go simply proves director Sam Mendes has no sense of humor… and no touch for it. It's also one of the worst written films I've ever seen. Ever. Everything is written in capital letters, with the quirk

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At this point, Hollywood has to be getting tired of dressing up this story in different duds. Another emotional and sexual awakening tale for a stuffy, bookish woman (Kate Beckinsale) and her too-serious beau (Christian Bale, fittingly), every last plot development for this film is easily guessed as soon as the major characters are introduced. Beckinsale plays an uptight woman named Alex who’s

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Pixar continues to expand what we consider kids movies to be. They steadfastly refuse to adhere to any sort of genre rules, which helps to keep their films feeling fresh. Last year with Wall-E, they made half a silent film and a love story about robots, and with Up there are again long stretches of observation over action. It’s also another love story, told from childhood to an elderly age and a

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A technical marvel and an otherwise confounding film experience, Hiroshima Mon Amour seems to me to be exactly what it was originally commissioned to be… a short documentary of the atomic bomb stretched into a feature by a director not entirely sure of what they wanted to accomplish from it. The first 15 minutes or so play out in much the same way I recall the short film La Jetee doing so, with

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While not the first example of the French New Wave, The 400 Blows really is the film that gave the movement its legitimacy. It brought director Francois Truffaut a Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and received international acclaim that shone a light on France's new group of critics turned directors (from the Cahiers du Cinema). As is typical of the Oscars, it rewarded a film it

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The first world championship I've experienced in my life! Thank you Phillies! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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now being discussed on the boards...

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Last month I opened a message board for "The Film Script" which I hope will enable everyone to chip in and throw up their own topics of their own volition. I've enjoyed the different and less formal format for posting and have posted a number of topics thus far, which I will obviously continue to add on to.I will continue to use the "The Film Script" blog as a means for posting reviews and

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now being discussed on the boards...

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1925-2008

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Since I can only assume the "anonymous" person that wants Film Script world domination and a message board to coincide with the blog has to be none other than my Film Script co-creater Ty, I'm here to announce The Film Script's very own message board... has opened. I found a free host that I'm happy with, threw up a banner and a post and got the ball rolling. I really hope everyone uses the

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I just wanted to post this and see if you guys would prefer a change of format. If I were to change the site over to a message board, do you think that would spring more conversation and make it less formal? That way at any time someone could post a topic of conversation or anything really that they wanted to discuss. We could keep the replies as short or as long as we'd like and get more

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"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"Season 4 Premiere, Eps. 1 & 2

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Even for what I presume must be a no budget, direct-to-DVD dump this cover is horrendous. They cut the bird straight out of the shot, it's completely off-center, the font is dull and lifeless and not even Matthew Perry can muster more than an, "I can't believe my career has fallen this far since Friends" smirk.Honest to God, I thought it was a nature channel production on first glance.

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Topic of the Week:What's the Most Messed Up Movie You've Ever Seen?

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This is the first time where many titles competed for the "Must See" distinction for the month. I could make a case for any one of my notables, especially Miracle at St. Anna (which I prophesized a Best Picture nom) and Choke, the first Chuck Palahniuk adaptation since Fincher's brilliant Fight Club. It's a good month for movies. A good lead in to the fall movie season... but I couldn't pass on

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Struggling against itself and its own genre limitations, Traitor ends up ensnared in its own contradictions. It’s a confounding film, at once seeming to want to appeal to the viewer as both fresh and familiar. Traitor adheres to the formulas and sequences of well-established genres including the prisoner sequence, spy and action movie clichés, even the revenge storyline… but implanted in a

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A fluid continuation of the original, Hellboy II: The Golden Army sees director Guillermo Del Toro back reteaming with his hand-picked star Ron Perlman and the duo picking up where they left off in ‘04. Once again Hellboy is dealing with his lot in life and his ongoing role as savior of the human race, all the while being relegated to lurking amongst the shadows and avoiding human interaction.

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This is the month I get back to rejuvenating "The Film Script." No more 7 post months, guaranteed. And I'll start it how I always start it, with a forum for discussion on everyone's recent watches.The forum's open.

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We’re down to the last third of the year and recently the question was posed to me for the first time this year,“Do you have any early Oscar ideas?”Welcome to the Fall Movie Season, where the studios try to pretend as if the previous eight months of the season weren’t just about making money and throw out their prestige pictures with aspirations of golden statuettes.With the exception of the

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A pleasant, modest story that just spends too much time awkwardly stumbling around like its protagonist, Resurrecting the Champ is about a sportswriter (Josh Hartnett) who uncovers a former heavyweight fighting contender now living on the streets. Nicknamed “The Champ” and long believed dead, the writer sells Champ on the story idea as a potential return to glory for the browbeaten pugilist and

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Again, I couldn't choose just one. Two potentially great comedies in the course of two weeks? No idea why these two comedies that basically target the same demographics would open only a week apart, but I'm not complaining... Who else wants to see it and what are your "must see's" of the month? Other Notables:Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Hamlet 2, Traitor, Babylon A.D., Swing Vote

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Session 022 - All About EveWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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1957-2008

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Post reactions, highlights, drawbacks, best/worst moments, or whatever else you feel needs saying.

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I suppose there's no reason we have to rely on Brian for EVERYTHING here...! :)

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Sorry I was unable to post something about this before I left, but with the last minute wedding details and preparation, I just didn't have time. Anyways, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm currently on my honeymoon and I'll be back sometime late next week. So my Dark Knight thoughts and other posts will have to be held off until then.In the meantime, keep the forums going. I look

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How do we feel about THIS lovely lady:Being cast in the same film opposite THIS lovely man:The film is Nine directed by Rob Marshall and co-written by Frederico Fellini. Thoughts, impressions, predictions? Oh and while we're at it how 'bout we take a gander at some of the other cast members, shall we?

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As reported by Dark Horizons & The Sun, "Tom Cruise has been asked to reprise his role as cocky fighter-pilot Maverick in a Top Gun sequel. It's been twenty-two years since the first film in which Cruise played a Navy pilot trainee and now a sequel script has apparently been penned. 'The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor - and this time it is he who has to deal with a

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We're halfway through the year of 2008 and while nearly all of the serious Oscar contenders have yet to come out, I wanted to shine a light on the films, actors and directors that have entertained me thus far this year, the misses I hope to rectify and some of the worst examples of filmmaking of the year thus far.Best Supporting Actress(winners in bold)Isla Fisher – Definitely, MaybeMila Kunis -

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Session 021 - ShaneWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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Post reactions, highlights, drawbacks, best/worst moments, or whatever else you feel needs saying.

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As if there could be any other choice?Who else wants to see it and what are your "must see's" of the month?Other Notables:Hellboy II: The Golden Army, X-Files: I Want to Believe (still haven't seen the first though, so it's unlikely I see this anytime soon), Step Brothers, American Teen

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What's everyone been watching?

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Hard Candy is Hostel for the self-righteous filmgoer. A heinous, wish fulfillment fantasy about what director David Slade and screenwriter Brian Nelson would like to do to pedophiles, the film amounts to nothing more than a justification for getting satisfaction out of torture porn. But instead of sympathizing with the people on the receiving end, hoping for their escape… Hard Candy asks us

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Trying out a new reaction thread for our recent theater watchings. Post reactions, highlights, drawbacks, best/worst moments, or whatever else you feel needs saying.

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The shockingly assured and visually distinctive filmmaking style of Terrence Malick arrived, fully-formed with his debut feature Badlands in 1973. The circular, contemplative retrospection, painterly images and existentialism that befit Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World were in full effect from Malick’s first feature, a low budget rumination on the rage of murders committed by

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1937-2008

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1. Pulp Fiction (1994) 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2001-03) 3. Titanic (1997) 4. Blue Velvet (1986) 5. Toy Story (1995) 6. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 9. Die Hard (1988) 10. Moulin Rouge (2001) 11. This Is Spinal Tap (

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Session 020 - The Last EmperorWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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I’ve liked Ryan Reynolds ever since I saw him on "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place" back when I was in high school. I don’t remember how many episodes I saw but it couldn’t have been many since I can hardly recall a detail about any of them, except that Reynold’s wit and comic timing stood out. He was the one reason I stopped flipping and tuned in. Fitting then that his first couple forays

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Topic of the Week:Name Your Favorite Scenes of the Year, Thus Far

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The brainchild of Vince Vaughn (we actually get to hear Vaughn propose the idea over the opening credits), the Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland is a mash up, more documentary than stand-up, more behind the stage than on it, more improvised than not and, just slightly, more good than bad. Pitched as a sketch show hosted by Vaughn himself, the film opens to

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Why have I taken so long to post this forum? A better question, how can I forget about a topic that I post every... single... month?

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In just two films, director Thomas McCarthy has shown himself to be an adept, minimalist storyteller. Observant and, even better, patient, McCarthy lets his stories unfold in a naturalistic manner that allows the actors room to find the story without feeling the need to force big moments. When McCarthy approached the regular character actor Richard Jenkins about staring in his next film, The

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Session 019 - NashvilleWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

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June is an atypically lame month for movies this year. Being that there are more films coming out this month where the idea of seeing them actually physically scares the hell out of me (You Don't Mess with the Zohan, The Love Guru) than "must see" films, I've begun to question whether I've somehow traveled back in time a few months to relive January all over again? Seriously, up until I

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 13 - "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3"

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1934-2008

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First, is it too long post-comment to take umbrage with Chachi’s insinuation that I should see this film merely because I subject Kelly to artsy films all the time? I’ve probably seen more romantic comedies than any heterosexual man should. In fact, artsy vs. romcom, I’d probably come out on top.Regardless, the moment we’ve all been waiting for (for whatever reason)… my take on Win a Date with

Brian Mulliganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09090288348869224073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627820692398865198.post-9434320580487559262008-05-22T21:11:00.013-04:002008-05-22T22:07:01.869-04:00

Okay, this list is by request... and because I'm a coward and I haven't revisited those classic Disney cartoons (Bambi, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, etc.) since I was a child, I chose to keep it to contemporary films. I've chosen to define "contemporary" as from your own personal date of birth until the present... so those younger than me will miss out on the glory of

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Do you really need Nic Cage, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Helen Mirren and Harvey Keitel in this film? Oscar nominees one and all. But, seriously... for this?! And listen, I enjoyed the first one when a lot of people crap all over it. I recognize it’s trivial, but it was light, entertaining and a helluva lot more fun than The Da Vinci Code could muster up. And for a while, this one felt like more

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 12 - "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"

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I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds here, but I thought some people might find this amusing?

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Monument Ave. - originally Snitch - is something of a laidback Scorsese mob film, only minus his amplitude and even more content to revel in the not-so-peaceful atmosphere of a bunch of drunk Irishmen sitting around a bar telling dick jokes and putting one another down. You remember that scene from The Departed involving Leonardo DiCaprio, Ray Winstone and a cranberry juice? Well, that’s this

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Session 018 - The English PatientWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 11 - "Cabin Fever"

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Woody Allen was in a playful mood with this one (course, even Allen’s playful side can’t help riffing on old Federico Fellini storylines). Sweet and Lowdown is Allen’s unique brand of biopic, a peculiar story about the 1930’s greatest jazz guitarist, Emmett Ray. Well, second greatest, after this gypsy named Django Reinhardt whose songs make Emmett weep and whose presence makes him faint. So why

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Okay, so I had to pick two this month and in honor of the summer blockbuster season kicking off... I'm also staying out of the arthouse cinemas that I've been frequenting (My Blueberry Nights, The Visitor). So, as much as I'd like to see Son of Rambow, it just couldn't hold up to these two titles. Plus, considering everyone's probably already seen Iron Man by now, I felt we needed an additional

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 10 - "Something Nice Back Home"

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Let's get some discussion going on here again guys with recent watches and some quick thoughts. You know the drill.

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2007 had an honored class of “pregnancy comedies” with Waitress, Knocked Up and Juno all earning accolades and big box office. So the arrival of Baby Mama in 2008 is not especially shocking… but it does sorta feels like the delinquent child who got held back. Most of the fault can be laid on first-time director Michael McCullers (who also wrote the film). McCullers shows little eye for visual

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Topic of the Week: Name an Actor or Actress That if You Know They're in a Movie You Will Think Twice About Seeing It

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The Dr. Seuss book that Horton is based on targets a 4-to-8 year old demographic. The movie - it would appear - does the same. But if that’s the case, why cast Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill? Are “The Office” and Superbad now favorites of the play age crowd? Here they’re all muted, comedically castrated, being forced to adhere to their Suessian G-rating and leaving the movie

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 9 - "The Shape of Things to Come"

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Is it wrong to call Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a movie that features bookended scenes in which star Jason Segal strips down to his birthday suit, his… um, coming out party? Well, I’m gonna do it anyway. The latest familiar Apatow face to headline his own movie, Segal, the writer/actor of Forgetting Sarah Marshall with the somewhat over-padded midsection, penned the story all because his buddy

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Is Funny Games a better film than Saw or Hostel simply because it doesn’t fetishize its violence and it knows it’s sending up the gorno genre? Does its self-knowledge somehow elevate it past films that aim only to exploit brutality and torture as a means for cheap thrills? Or is it worse because it should know better than to exist in this filth? Honestly, who cares, either way it doesn’t make it

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Topic of the Week: Name a Movie That You Know is Awful, Without Ever Having Seen Itand try not to name the obvious ones (ex: Superhero Movie)

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Back in 1991, after a decade of science fiction films such as The Adventures of Baron Manchusen, Brazil and Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam decided to try a smaller budgeted, more character-driven story called The Fisher King. He intended to film it directly from the script, without alteration, so as to avoid it becoming “a Terry Gilliam film.” He failed… but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In

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I expected more. Listed at #35 on the American Film Institute’s record of “100 Years… 100 Laughs,” Harvey is ranked not among, but above, such classics as City Lights, Animal House and American Graffiti. How or why I’m not entirely sure. The film is pretty thoroughly devoid of humor and director Henry Koster spends most of his time exploiting the persona of his star, James Stewart, for his own

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Caught in the wake of the box office behemoth that was Titanic, Dark City got sucked under the tide, sputtering in with a weak $5 million opening and did little to distinguish itself at the box office. Since then, it has become a cult favorite of fans who’ve uncovered the science-fiction film on DVD. Count myself included. The former and currently indistinguishable character actor Rufus Sewell

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So totally 80’s in every aspect, director William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. is something of a time capsule for a decade full of sports cars, vibrant colors, outlandish clothing, cheesy one-liners… and awesome cop flicks. William Peterson stars as Richard Chance, a hotshot secret service agent who’s always tempting fate (hey, there’s something to that last name!), but the best role in the

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The atmosphere of Cloverfield is extraordinary. Crumbling New York City skyscrapers, raided electronic stores, organized makeshift medical centers, citywide evacuation teams and engaged army firefight battles all captured on a single roving handheld camera, cinema verite style, in much the same way a film like Children of Men used its techniques to drop you into the action but, you know, with

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George Clooney’s love for old Hollywood (The Good German, Good Night, and Good Luck) is coming out again in Leatherheads, a perfectly agreeable modernization of the slapstick comedy, that just ends up overstaying its welcome. In much the same way as classic films of the genre, such as Bringing Up Baby or It Happened One Night, Leatherheads works when the focus is on the repartee between its

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1923-2008

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A buddy of mine calls Oldboy the “most unjustified revenge (story) in the history of the world.” He might be right… but it doesn’t matter either way, because by the time the tale winds down, the film is only loosely interested in the act of revenge. The end of the film concentrates the story on how even the smallest triviality in one’s life can affect another’s exponentially. That’s what all

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Session 017 - Ordinary PeopleWho saw it and what are your thoughts on it?

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Death at a Funeral is one of those ingratiating comedies that won’t settle for just being bad, it has to be confrontationally awful. Honestly, if this film were a man… I’d punch him. It’s not only unfunny in just about every imaginable way, but it goes for a consistent blend of cheap and grotesque laughs. Is an old curmudgeonly grandpa who needs help defecating and a man who accidentally

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A scene after the gruesome, untimely death of her husband and daughter in a car accident (for which she was to blame), Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) awakens, healing in a hospital bed. She springs upright, walks out into the hallway and notices that the lights in the seemingly endless corridor are shutting down on her one by one, enveloping her in darkness. She starts to run, the shadows threatening

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Who else wants to see it and what are your "must see's" of the month?Other Notables:Leatherheads, Shine a Light, My Blueberry Nights (hey, it finally gets released!), Smart People, Street Kings, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Baby Mama, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

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Adding new shadings to Wong Kar-Wai’s already extremely rich filmography, Happy Together is another of the director’s celebrated, deeply felt love stories… this one just so happens to be about two men. I don’t know how Wong Kar-Wai does it, typically starting to film a movie without a finished script… just an idea and some characters to guide him, but he always seems to be able to capture the

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A new month, another posting forum for all your recent watches.Meanwhile, I'm going to try and continue this film-capsule-a-day pace that I've got going, but also try to mix in some other topics for discussion (I'd like to get back to having a "Top 7" post each month for one) and I will eventually just start posting random questions I find on the RT messageboards for our debate over here. For

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8 years have passed since the release of director Kimberly Peirce’s last film, Boys Don’t Cry, and according to her co-writer Mark Richard there were “no less than 65 drafts” of the script for Stop-Loss since that time. So I ask you… how can it still feel like the writing was left so unpolished? The tone is too inconsistent, and characters seem to have the ability to appear anywhere within the

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Theoretically a hot button film about the assassination of the President of the United States as viewed from eight different perspectives, Vantage Point has little to say… and shockingly even less to show. It’s a gimmick film, a story that continually rewinds backwards in order to tell a different story. Unfortunately it’s also one that’s been done before (and better) in films such as Hero, Run,

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Chan-wook Park’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is undoubtedly the work of a very talented – if still developing – director. Sure, Park has not yet perfected the craft (he still sometimes pushes things too far by allowing time for stylized shots that don’t do much other than look cool or visual jokes that just don’t work), but the reason why Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ultimately succeeds is because

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Admittedly drowning in classic songs and centering around a performance that might as well be Mary Poppins comes to the hills of Salzburg, Austria (the ever affable Julie Andrews nearly turned down the role due to its obvious similarities to that musical), I’ll admit the Best Picture-winning and AFI-favorite The Sound of Music baffled me for about two hours and twenty minutes. The film is

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Proof that the director can make a film worthwhile, David Cronenberg creates a pervading atmosphere of gloom in The Dead Zone that is reminiscent of John Carpenter’s Halloween, though not quite as memorable. The story is about Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken), a nerdish-looking school teacher who gets in a car accident after a date with the woman he has professed he’ll marry, a fellow teacher by

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Too many unhappy coincidences undermine what could have been a solid drama here. Terry George, the director responsible for 2004’s excellent Hotel Rwanda, gets trapped beneath his own happenstance on Reservation Road. In Hollywood it’s never enough to just have a straightforward storyline such as a hit and run accident and its ramifications… instead we have to have overlaying storylines tying the

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For a B-movie about a mist filled with swarms of killer insects, The Mist can’t seem to keep its mouth shut. When the aforementioned mist descends upon a small town in Maine, Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden are amongst the largely brain-dead people trapped in the local grocery store. Then a man comes running out of the haze, blood dripping from his nose and making claims about being attacked.

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“If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn’t you have to do that?” says Gene Hackman far too late into the running time of Michael Apted’s Extreme Measures. He bellows his lines with an air of entitlement and a matter-of-factness that convinces you – that at least to his own mind – everything he’s doing is morally ‘right’ (the guy would have made a killer debate team leader).

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If not the most beautiful film ever made, it’s easily one of them. The painterly, ruralistic images of Terrence Malick’s film are astonishing. But too many seem to qualify this movie as only being pertinent for it’s cinematography; while there isn’t nearly enough credit given to its story. A meditation - with Malick is there any other kind? - on money, love and life and the importance of all

Brian Mulliganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09090288348869224073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627820692398865198.post-9850172946564802202008-03-22T18:06:00.005-04:002008-04-02T06:48:53.591-04:00

There’s an overwhelming weight to Serpico, Sidney Lumet’s early 1970's cop masterpiece. The weight of corruption, of that cold stare you get when someone doesn’t like you and wants you to know it, and of trying to do what’s right when besieged by a division cracking with moral decay. Pacino’s Frank Serpico is very much trapped in the grimy, realistic world that Lumet has set out before him, the

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LOST REACTIONSSeason 4, Episode 8 - "Meet Kevin Johnson"

Brian Mulliganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09090288348869224073noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627820692398865198.post-71655932491268514472008-03-20T14:34:00.003-04:002008-04-02T06:49:10.617-04:00

La Dolce Vita is a revelation upon your first viewing; namely the beauty of it and its ability to surprise and shock you (the film was banned in Spain until 1981). It’s all about stretching for something more… the perfect woman, the perfect job, the perfect life (the film’s title, after all, translates to “The Sweet Life”). You can see the religious themes (a flying Christ statue from the opening

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