Review for The Dark Knight - Must Go! - The Dark Knight is supreme!!!!! Wow,just wow.This movie has defined the comic book genre itself. It has everything. It has humor, drama, and pure joker violence. Heath ledger's final performance will not be forgotten as he makes the Joker into evil in its purest form.
The elements in this movie make for one of the best. Bale's Batman is shadowed with interesting conflicts,Lt.(now commisioner)Gordon is played brilliantly by Oldman.
Posthumous oscar for Ledger! Review for Mamma Mia! - Must Go! - MAMMA MIA What Fun! Great fun , a must see. If you love ABBA and love the play you will love this movie. Filmed on location in the Greek Islands the scenery is beautiful. Meryl Streep CAN sing and so can most all of the cast. (Pierce cant sing but he does his best).
We saw this July 16 at a sneak peek and plan to see it again this Sunday.
MAMMA MIA you will have fun. Review for Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Go - overall Although this movie had it's slow moments, I would have to say its a good movie overall. This movie could quite possibly be considered a chick flick...who knew?!
L.A. Times - Movie Reviews
'The Grocer's Son,' 'Kenny,' 'Lou Reed's Berlin,' 'A Very British Gangster' Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Eric Guirado's beguiling "The Grocer's Son" is deceptively simple. Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé), a 30-year-old Paris waiter, suddenly finds himself back home in the village in Provence he fled a decade earlier. His gruff, demeaning father (Daniel Duval) has suffered a heart attack, and Antoine, at least temporarily, must drive a van every day through the countryside, selling food and goods to isolated, mainly elderly customers while his good-natured mother (Jeanne Goupil) runs their small store in the village.
'Mamma Mia' Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 More like: Oh, no! The stage-to-screen adaptation is loaded with excess. But, hey, Meryl Streep comes off well.
Couldn't they have just let "Mamma Mia!" be "Mamma Mia!"?
'Felon' Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 In this intermittently satisfying prison drama, Stephen Dorff stars as a family man convicted of killing a burglar, with Val Kilmer as the inmate-guru who helps him survive.
A hard-working, clean-living family man (Stephen Dorff) is sent to prison after he accidentally kills a burglar. Thrown into the violent world of life behind bars, with its indecipherable codes of behavior, racial disharmony and dehumanizing violence, he struggles to get by. That is until he is made cellmates with a philosopher/poet/mass-murderer (a girthy Val Kilmer) who shows him the ropes.
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The Wackness Richard Brody Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The Film File Tell No One David Denby Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The Film File Past Shock David Denby Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000 In the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” many things go boom. Cars explode, jails and hospitals are blown up, bombs are put in people’s mouths and sewn into their stomachs. There’s a chase scene in which cars pile up and climb over other cars, and a truck gets lassoed . . .
Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
Dark Knight Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:50:04 -0700
Starring:
Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale,
Michael...
Review:
Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of
bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director
Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's
Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a
comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle?
Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan is just warming up. There's
something raw and elemental at work in this artfully imagined
universe. Striking out from his Batman origin story, Nolan cuts
through to a deeper dimension. Huh? Wha? How can a conflicted guy
in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile
speak to the essentials of the human condition? Just hang on for a
shock to the system. The Dark Knight creates a place where
good and evil — expected to do battle —...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Mamma Mia! Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:44:55 -0700
Starring:
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard,
Jul...
Review:
Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart
out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of
the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to
Barcelona since 1999, grossing over $2 billion and luring more than
30 million ticketbuyers to hear Abba songs by Sweden's Björn
Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson shoehorned into a plot where they don't
really fit. Who can argue with that kind of "money, money/Always
sunny/In a rich man's world success?" I can, at least where the
movie is concerned, because the three formidable women responsible
for the show — producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine
Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd — let the magic slip
through their fingers on the treacherous trip from stage to screen.
The ...
Rating:
2 Stars
Meet Dave Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:44:15 -0700
Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Judah
Friedlander...
Review:
Eddie Murphy — was that Oscar nominated performance in
Dreamgirls just something I imagined? — continues to
trash his very real talent with bottomfeeding material. In Meet
Dave, Murphy limits himself to two roles (none human). He
plays a pint-sized alien from outer space and the spacecraft he
rode in on. If you think I'm going to explain that lame premise,
think again. But know this: Murphy, teaming again with his
Norbit director Brian Robbins, is assuming we'll all line
up for lazyass toilet jokes and pay for the privilege. Prove him
wrong, people, please.
Rating:
1 Star
Rotten Tomatoes: Top Movies
87% Hellboy II: The Golden Army Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:05:02 -0700 Del Toro crafts a stellar comic book sequel, boasting visuals that are as imaginative as the characters are endearing. 37% Hancock Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:05:02 -0700 Though it begins with promise, Hancock suffers from a flimsy narrative and poor execution. 60% Journey to the Center of the Earth Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:05:02 -0700 Modern visuals and an old fasioned storyline make this family adventure/comedy a fast-paced, kitschy ride.
NPR Topics: Movies
Summary Judgment: 'Mamma' Or 'Knight'? Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400 Writer Mark Jordan Legan breaks down reviews of the long-awaited Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Animated feature Space Chimps is up next. And finally, Legan looks at Mama Mia!, starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. It's as divisive as ABBA itself, he says. A Portrait Of The Great 'Gonzo' Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:32:00 -0400 The documentary Gonzo remembers the strange and wild life of writer Hunter S. Thompson. Critic John Powers reviews the film. 'Batman' Lands In Theaters Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0400 Daniel Holloway of Us Weekly looks at this week's new releases, including Batman, Mamma Mia, and Transsiberian.
NYT > Red Carpet
The Lawsuit Over Producer Credit for 'Crash' Gets Personal SHARON WAXMAN Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0400 A top executive of the movie academy described one of the producing team behind the best-picture winner, "Crash," as throwing a tantrum in suing over credit for the film. News Analysis: Los Angeles Retains Custody of Oscar DAVID CARR Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Los Angeles, a place where race is discussed rarely, saw itself in "Crash," a film where encounter and understanding are just a random fender-bender away. 'Crash' Walks Away With the Top Prize at the Oscars DAVID M. HALBFINGER and DAVID CARR Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0400 In a stunning twist, the motion picture academy turned its back on "Brokeback Mountain," awarding the Oscar for best picture to "Crash."
Village Voice | Films
Heath Ledger Peers Into The Abyss in The Dark Knight Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly into the souls of restless men. In The Dark Knight, the continuation of Nolan's superb 2005 reboot of the Batman fra...
Jacques Nolot Approaches His End in Before I Forget Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The man awakes from a restless sleep and makes himself a pot of coffee. The kitchen light falls down on his wavy hair, more salt than pepper, and his once-youthful body, now a strange topography of sags and folds. He shuffles into the living room, sits down at his desk, and attempts to write. Tha...
Lou Reed's Berlin is All New York Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The most epic musical moment at this year's South by Southwest Festival was a Lou Reed tribute extravaganza, a tented Texan sweatfest that saw the guest of honor publicly kissing Moby on the cheek (!) and a string of cover- song mini-sets from rock stalwarts Yo La Tengo, Thurston Moore, and My Mo...
Film News from Times Online
Sigourney Weaver in WALL-E: the sci-fi legend Ripley, believe it or not Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000
It’s hard to believe, sitting opposite a poised and self-possessed Sigourney
Weaver, that she was once a painfully insecure, awkward little girl
desperate for someone to tell her she was pretty.
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