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Review for The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience - Must Go! - The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience
I found the movie to be both entertaining and disturbing. Very well developed and portrayed characters. Deeply dark story line with with alot of ingratuitous violence. Film had a nice pace to it with with a few interesting plot twists. Even though Heath Ledger played the "Joker", I never really saw Heath, but I did see a ruthless psychotic sociopath. He was totally and completely immersed in his character. And, quite the make-up job on Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, complete with total coordinated eye movement. It was a pleasant suprise to watch Gary Oldman in a "good guy" role. Freenman and Caine had very convincing and slightly humorous supporting roles. Maggie Gyllenhaal played a great conflicted significant other to both Wayne and Dent. I waited over a month to see this on an IMAX...and I'm so glad I did. It was more than worth it.
Review for The Dark Knight - Must Go! - The Best Movie Ever!
so everybodys heard of this movie. ive seen it 3 times and I just cant have enough. lol. I mostly go 4 the joker,heath ledger. his role in this movie is so intense he draws you in too his character. hes fascinating in this movie. i think well to me thts his best acting. and under all that make-up is it him? haha it doesnt look like him. if u didnt see this movie yet, go especially for the joker!
Review for Tropic Thunder - So-So - Tropic Thunder
I loved the way they over-lapped the previews and some of the other topics. I couldn't even believe T__ C_____ part. Wow, pretty good role. I laughed sometimes because it was so vuglar, and a LOT of silly and childish banter.
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Movie review: 'Traitor'
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Don Cheadle reaffirms his excellence in a good, terrorism-themed thriller that also features Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels. "Traitor" asks a question that can be answered only by that cruel mistress, the marketplace: How much moral ambiguity and narrative intricacy will an audience handle in the realm of a terrorism-themed contemporary thriller? Enough, I hope, to respond to "Traitor." It tells a good, snakelike story, slithering in some unpredictable directions.
'The House Bunny'
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Also: 'Ten Nights of Dreams,' 'What We Do Is Secret,' 'America the Beautiful,' 'Cthulhu' "Being a centerfold is the highest and most prestigious honor there is," über-blond Shelley earnestly declares. "It says, 'I'm naked in the middle of a magazine. Unfold me!' "
'The Garden'
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Turf wars flourish in South-Central L.A. It's tempting to call "The Garden" a story of innocence and experience, of evil corrupting paradise, but that would be doing a disservice to the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent documentary that does them full justice.
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Under Suspicion
David Denby Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Jiří Menzel’s “I Served the King of England” is a Czech national epic served up with champagne and truffles. This graceful and leisurely movie, adapted from a 1974 novel by the masterly Bohumil Hrabal, covers an enormous time span, starting in the nineteen-thirties, then passing through the . . .
Trouble the Water
Richard Brody Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
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Trouble the Water
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:31:14 -0700
Starring: Kendall "Wink" Rivers, Scott Roberts Review: A star is born. Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never heard of her. Not yet. Roberts didn't write or direct Trouble the Water, the behind-the-camera artistry in this wallop of a movie is handled by the extraordinary team of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Trouble the Water is a documentary, an unforgettable one. It's an account of Hurricane Katrina from the inside. Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott Roberts were stuck in New Orleans, without the money to get out. So they stayed and helped their neighbors and shot footage of Katrina as she attacked, footage like you've never seen, jaw-dropping scenes of the city before, during and after Katrina struck. The heroism on view here is indisputable. You never see fear as Kimberly, 26, rushed to help her friends and... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:51:48 -0700
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Scarlet Johansson Review: Woody Allen goes latin (you heard me), and the romantic, richly comic result — powered by a dream cast — is his sexiest movie ever. Shooting in Spain has loosened up the Woodman. You want plot? Two American girls, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), spend the summer at the Barcelona hideaway of Vicky's pals, Mark (Kevin Dunn) and Judy (the ever-glorious Patricia Clarkson). No sooner do the girls spot Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a bedroom-eyed painter, than he's hitting on both of them. So far, so predictable. What sparks the movie is Penélope Cruz as Maria Elena, the painter's ex-wife, a fireball given to strong emotions — hell, she once stabbed Juan Antonio during an argument. You haven't lived till you've heard Cruz and Bardem trading Woody Allen o... Rating: 3 Stars
Hamlet 2
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:46:18 -0700
Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener Review: Don't expect a night with The Bard. This cuckoo farce asks: Can an L.A. actor stuck doing ads for herpes cures find happiness by moving to Tucson and teaching drama to high schoolers? Probably not. But you'll be wearing a happy face for two hours watching the brilliant Brit comic Steve Coogan play him. Him being Dana Marschz (pronounced Mars-chhh-zzz by those who dare), a sterile recovering alcoholic who gets slagged regularly by a snotty kid critic for staging movies (Dead Poets Society, Erin Brockovich) as plays. "He fisted us," cries Dana. Pumped by the addition of Latin students to his class of whitey Christians and closeted gays, Dana rouses himself — not with his wife (the dry, dazzling Catherine Keener), who's boinking their friend (David Arquette), but by creating an original... Rating: 3 Stars
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83% Tropic Thunder
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:05:01 -0700
With biting satire, plenty of subversive humor, and an unforgettable turn by Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder is a triumphant late Summer comedy.
40% The House Bunny
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:05:01 -0700
Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.
40% Death Race
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:05:01 -0700
Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp.
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Don Cheadle's Spy Turn
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:15:00 -0400
In his latest movie, Traitor, Don Cheadle plays a CIA operative who goes undercover to work with a terrorist group — but then becomes a suspected terrorist himself.
Minorities Get Little Respect On The Big Screen
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:01:00 -0400
As the summer movie season draws to a close, Morning Edition commentator John Ridley weighs in on what he thinks has been a really bad spell for minorities at the multiplex — both for actors and moviegoers.
Andrew Fleming And Pam Brady: Making 'Hamlet 2'
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:00 -0400
The two collaborated on the new Steve Coogan comedy, about a failed actor and overzealous drama teacher who mounts a musical sequel to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy.
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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
A Dreyer Duo—Day of Wrath at the IFC and Vampyr on DVD
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Before there were Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, or Andrei Tarkovsky (not to mention Lars von Trier, Carlos Reygadas, and Guy Maddin), there was Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968), the original solitary, uncompromising film artist. A product of the Danish film indu...
John Carpenter Lives in a BAM Retrospective
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
I'm not sure if John Carpenter ever actually spoke the oft-reproduced quote: "In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, I'm a filmmaker; in England, I'm a genre director; in the U.S., I'm a bum." But as an Old West newspaperman once advised a certain U.S. senator: "When the legend becomes fact, print...
Social Climbing Through Politically Turbulent Times in I Served the King of England
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel's sixth adaptation of work by his late pal, the novelist Bohumil Hrabal (their collaboration goes back four decades and includes 1966's Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains), boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademar...
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