Tag: review
group name: filmcorps
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January 03, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
The land outside my town pours around decaying ranches and rusted cars, past lean cattle dogs and brown men in cowboy hats and torn jeans. My friend, Leo, lives here, lives in a stucco home with a dog . . .
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March 04, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
"The Departed" on DVD.
This was the only "Best Picture" Oscar Nominee that I managed to see in a theater, and after watching it win last Sunday...I decided to see if it held . . .
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January 07, 2007 01:27 AM EST --
An overarching theme of many movies that depict children in unpleasant situations, is the children's retreat into a fantasy world. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe takes place in wartime . . .
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October 13, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
a popular history of zombie movies and synopses and ratings for hundreds
ZOMBIE MOVIES - The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay, Foreword by Stuart Gordon. Chicago Review Press/An A Cappella Book, . . .
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January 04, 2007 10:24 PM EST --
I was expecting better. The movie clocks in just over two hours but feels longer, never a good sign . Speaking of signs, "Hollywoodland" (what the Hollywood sign said before losing . . .
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January 13, 2007 08:27 PM EST --
The plots of romantic comedies tend to follow a typical arc: Boy and girl meet cute, some barrier prevents their romantic union, stuff gets sorted out, and voila! Happy ending. Catch . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:03 PM EDT --
Jerry Bruckheimer along with director/screenwriter . . .
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June 19, 2008 07:34 PM EDT --
Hong Kong cinema's rise to worldwide recognition and influence
HONG KONG NEW WAVE CINEMA, 1978-2000 by Pak Tong Cheuk. Intellect Books, Bristol, United Kingdom, www.intellectbooks.com/U. . . .
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November 10, 2006 07:53 PM EST --
I've seen better films, but there just is something about Russell Crowe that makes me weak in the knees thus willing to forgive him practically anything (phone throwing at a hapless hotel clerk, whining . . .
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March 27, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
One of the main reasons people are glued onto their TV Sets nowadays, is largely due to the influx of Reality TV programming. There is a morbid interest involved - and we all know it (because we're . . .
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December 25, 2006 12:58 AM EST --
My expectations for this movie were high, thus I was both satisfied and disappointed. The movie is over two hours but feels longer. If one factors in the commercials and previews then . . .
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March 08, 2007 12:35 PM EST --
There is a marked difference between a film that entertains and one that informs. And it’s not as if we can get away with implying that those that inform are mostly documentaries and those that . . .
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October 17, 2009 01:06 AM EDT --
In 1963 Maurice Sendak released his great children's book, Where the Wild Things Are . Since then it has been essential literature to millions of children around the world. An absolute staple of . . .
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May 08, 2009 02:20 AM EDT --
Prologue
Hollywood is an industry, by and large, using tools it has never bothered to master.
Every year we hear the terms "thrill ride, edge of your seat, work of startling imagination," . . .
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July 23, 2006 11:58 PM EDT --
This is probably the best film based on a story that shouldn't have been made into a movie in the first place. Inspired by bedtime stories M. Night Shyamalan told his children, this film is visual . . .
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January 07, 2007 05:09 PM EST --
Now I wouldn't say that I am a great critic of movies, restaurants or anything else for that matter, but what I can always share is my average joes' perception on most any topic or life . . .
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February 05, 2009 02:23 PM EST --
Hello Gather(ers). I just wanted to post to let all of you who care know, I will no longer be able to write my column of movie reviews, ONE HARSH CRITIC. Thanks to all of you who read and commented. I . . .
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April 15, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
the role of Italian film in the society's renewal after World War II
ITALIAN LOCATIONS - Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema by Noa Steimatsky. U. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN; . . .
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April 29, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
study of the influential director in the context of post-War Hollywood
IF YOU DIE, I'LL KILL YOU! - The Films of Samuel Fuller by Lisa Dombrowski. Wesleyan U. Press, Middletown, CT; www.wesleyan.edu/wespress; . . .
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January 05, 2007 01:48 PM EST --
I first watched "Marathon Man" after taping a broadcast on Turner Classic Movies one night. Needless to say, on videotape, the quality of that secondhand recording was less than overwhelming. . . .
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