Review for Fireproof - Must Go! - A Movie of great quality This is a fantastic movie. Everyone should go to see this film. It has a great clean story line to it, that is appropriate for the whole family. There needs to be more films just like this one, and we need to show the producers and companies who make movies that this is the type of movie everyone wants to se. A must see. Great for a date, or a night out with the family. Review for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Go - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Well as the movie's title boasts the music in this movie was awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Nick and Norah slowly fall in love. I was let down every time they hit a speedbump on their road to each others arms. And the soundtrack played as a beautiful backdrop to it all. This movie has it all, a love story, music, a few gross out moment, a funny messy drunk girl, a horribly evil ex girlfriend, and 2 gay best friends. Watch out for the gum!! Review for Nights in Rodanthe - No - Nights in Rodanthe Movie was unrealistic, the house would have collasped, the people would have died and disappeared, apparently the people in Hollywood don't watch the weather channel. I could not get into the movie and root for two characters who were still married but not to each other and what a burden the mother put on the daughter, the movie did not make me weepy or sad for the couple just angry that I spent so much money for a junky movie!
L.A. Times - Movie Reviews
'Ashes of Time' impeccably restored Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Also reviewed: 'Breakfast With Scot'; 'Fraude: Mexico 2006'; 'Talento de Barrio' and more
Wong Kar Wai's beautiful but demanding 1994 martial arts epic "Ashes of Time" has been impeccably restored, with "Redux" added to its title, and boasts excellent subtitles that help the viewer understand that it is set in the parallel universe of its genre and unfolds in five parts according to Chinese seasons. Visually superb, its score enhanced by added music, "Ashes of Time Redux" is an elegiac, contemplative work with an elliptical narrative that is hard to follow.
'Body of Lies' Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Director Ridley Scott and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe can't make up for a thin story.
"Body of Lies" is a film in disguise. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, except in this case the disguise is better than what it's covering up.
'Good Dick' Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Touching, human performances by Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter turn an improbable premise into a sweet, grounded love story.
Some people feel most at home burrowing in the depths of other people's pain, and Jason Ritter's unnamed character in Marianna Palka's "Good Dick" is clearly one of those people.
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Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
Miracle at St. Anna Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:57:21 -0700
Starring:
Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso
Review:
Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee's first war epic. And
it's not like I don't have objections. Miracle at St. Anna
is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many
characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside
of an HBO miniseries. But Lee isn't any director. He's an
African-American maverick with a legit gripe against the white face
that Hollywood puts on war. The first scene in Miracle
shows us a black World War II veteran watching John Wayne on TV
lording it over the D-Day invasion in The Longest Day. "We
fought that war too," says the vet. Point taken.
It's no surprise that Lee decided to make a film of James
McBride's well-received novel about the Buffalo Soldiers, black GIs
segregated from the regular Army, who served with the 92nd
Infantry...
Rating:
2 Stars
Eagle Eye Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:54:34 -0700
Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Review:
Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on
speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down
the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is? Did Shia LaBeouf
and Michelle Monaghan think there was any acting involved in
playing characters on the run from a computer intent on global
domination? Are BlackBerrys and iPhones the enemy because they make
us easy for the computer to track? Can the computer make me forget
this movie?
Rating:
1.5 Stars
Flash of Genius Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:19:41 -0700
Starring:
Greg Kinnear
Review:
For a while, it looked like Greg Kinnear showed his acting chops
best with supporting roles in the likes of As Good as It
Gets, Little Miss Sunshine and the current Ghost
Town. Well, hang on. Kinnear takes the star spot in Flash
of Genius and rides it to glory. He plays Robert Kearns, the
Detroit professor, inventor and father of six who came up with the
idea for the intermittent windshield wiper during the 1960s. Go
ahead, groan. I felt the same way. A night reading patent law seems
more exciting. But Kinnear takes this true story — John
Seabrook's 1993 New Yorker article formed the basis of the
script, by Philip Railsback — and runs with it. Kearns had
his "flash of genius" when a champagne cork popped his eye on his
honeymoon with wife Phyllis (Lauren Graham). Why couldn't a...
Rating:
3 Stars
NPR Topics: Movies
In 'Rachel,' Director Demme Casts Against Type Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:01:00 -0400 Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme cast Anne Hathaway — an actress best known for sweetheart roles — as a recovering drug addict in his new film, Rachel Getting Married. He talks about that decision and how he got involved in the project. In 'Happy,' Mike Leigh's World Is Not So Miserable Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:08:00 -0400 Director Mike Leigh's new film, Happy-Go-Lucky is propelled by a different sort of character: a 30-year-old primary school teacher who likes to party and deflects life's uncomfortable intrusions with an overabundance of good cheer. Not the typical working-class world Leigh usually explores. 'Duck Soup': Take One Fiscal Crisis, Boil Merrily Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:26:00 -0400 Depression-era comedy sends the Marx Brothers skating through economic territory their namesake Karl would recognize — and it begins with talk of bailouts, tax breaks and other things that Bob Mondello says you'll find familiar, too.
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
Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time Gets Its Comeback Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Cynics make the worst romantics; they should know better, they know they should know better, and they'd die if you knew better. Forced underground by a formative heartbreak, a cynic's romantic nature can flourish into a sort of private dementia. You can take my weary word for it, or you ca...
Joe Sawnberg and Greta Gerwig Attempt To Tell the Truth in Nights and Weekends Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Nights and Weekends telescopes a year-and-a-half relationship into a sampler of chats, spats, and screws. James and Mattie are two kids in their mid-twenties, just feeling out the world; they're played by the film's co-directors, Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. James you could imagine a few...
A Shallow Look at Ghetto Clichés in Talento de Barrio Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 When conservative watchdogs snarl about the ugliness of gangsta rap, Talento de Barrio might be what they picture in their head—a vile, stupid, violent-crime drama that would be laughable if its content wasn't so toxic. Drug boss Edgar Dinero (reggaeton star Daddy Yankee, who mostly ...
Film News from Times Online
Quantum of Solace: 007 goes art house Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:13 -0000
Some years ago, and this is gospel, a friend of a friend obtained some casual
work in the food hall of a Knightsbridge store. He was warned about
bothering the celebrities who frequented the place, but the sight of Roger
Moore perusing the deli counter proved too great a temptation. As the story
has it, he sneaked up, pressed a two-fingered gun barrel into Moore’s back
and intoned, in a cod Russian accent, “This time you lose, Mr Bond” — an act
that resulted in instant dismissal and a failure to extend his tenure as far
as lunchtime. Moore, apparently, was not without appreciation for this piece
of improv, arching an eyebrow in casual amusement.
Bond themes: Can nobody do it better? Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:30 -0000
Go
behind-the-scenes of the making of the Another Way to Die music video
I Watch the Another
Way to Die video
James Bond: Not so special agent Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:11 -0000
James Bond, epitome of style and rugged masculinity. Or is he? When Daniel
Craig rebooted the role, purists congratulated the producers for returning
to the darker, more complex character of the novels. So they had, to a
degree. Yet they overlooked certain other aspects of the literary Bond.
Perhaps wisely.
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