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Review: Milk (2008)
Milk Rating Director Gus Van Sant Screenplay Dustin Lance Black Length 128 min. Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Gaber, Denis O’Hare, Joseph Cross, Stephen Spinella, Lucas Grabeel MPAA Rating R for language, some sexual content and brief violence. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review How do you…
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Review: Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Wendy and Lucy Rating Director Kelly Reichardt Screenplay Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond Length 80 min. Starring Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally Dalton, Larry Fessenden MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review A fractured story about a destitute woman and her emotional attachment to her dog form the backbone of…
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Review: Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Happy-Go-Lucky Rating Director Mike Leigh Screenplay Mike Leigh Length 118 min. Starring Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Eddie Marsan, Samuel Roukin, Karina Fernandez MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review Anchored by dazzling performances, Mike Leigh’s latest small ensemble film, Happy-Go-Lucky, takes the audience on a crazy journey through the life of an extraordinarily…
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Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Rating Director David Fincher Screenplay Eric Roth, Robin Swicord Length 166 min. Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning, Tilda Swinton, Jared Harris, Taraji P. Henson, Phyllis Somerville, Julia Ormond, Faune A. Chambers, Elias Koteas, Donna DuPlantier, Jason Flemyng, Joeanna Sayler MPAA Rating PG-13 for brief war violence, sexual…
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The DVD Report #92
The legion of fans of the much admired actress can rejoice now that Warner Bros. has finally released some of her most requested films in its Natalie Wood Collection. Two of the titles in the set, Splendor in the Grass and Gypsy ,have been re-mastered for better picture and sound quality over their previous releases…
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The DVD Report #91
Lots to cover this week with the release of one major film from 2008 and fourteen older films, all but one of which are new to DVD. If you’re a Woody Allen fanatic you’ll love his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. If not you’ll find little to like in it. The title doesn’t refer to…
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The DVD Report #90
The big release of the week is the Criterion Collection’s long awaited release of Douglas Sirk’s 1954 film Magnificent Obsession. John M. Stahl’s original 1935 version is included on a bonus disc. The original novel was written by Lloyd C. Douglas, whose religious-themed The Robe was a huge box office hit in 1953, prompting new…
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The DVD Report #89
There are lots of new and recent DVDs to catch up with this week. Sony/Columbia is one of the stingier companies when it comes to releasing classic films so it’s a cause for celebration when they come up with something for us like The Films of Michael Powell even if the collection contains only two…
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The DVD Report #88
It’s time to look back at the best DVD releases of 2008, which I cite as follows: Murnau, Borzage and Fox How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration (Blu-ray) Fanny The Third Man (Blu-ray) Quo Vadis Becket (Blu-ray) The Lubitsch Musicals Persepolis (Blu-ray) The big news of…
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The DVD Report #87
Every year, DVD distributors make a dent in the long list of films not available on commercial DVD in the U.S., but it’s a slow process. This year they finally gave us Fanny and early next year they’ll give us Rachel, Rachel. We should be grateful for those, but there is so much more out…
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Film Preview: Gomorrah (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C-; C+ Review: I can’t imagine anyone wanting to stop and read this poster. Too much text often turns moviegoers off. Even if it is just critics’ praise. Plus, other than people wondering why there’s…
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The DVD Report #86
Ho, Ho, Ho! It’s that time of year again. If it’s worth saying, it’s worth repeating. From November of 2007, here once again are a few of my favorite Christmas films. Though not a Christmas film in the strictest sense, so much of George Cukor’s sublime 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women takes…
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The DVD Report #85
The Fox in Fox’s massive new DVD box set, Murnau, Borzage and Fox, is not the studio but William Fox, the titular head of Fox Studios who was fast becoming the most powerful mogul in the business in the late 1920s. In 1926, Fox had already put into motion plans to catch up with industry…
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Film Preview: Ciao (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Alternating bars, color and film image, is such an original notion that I’m surprised no one has come up with it before… Trailer Rating: C+ Review: There are kernels of intriguing story elements…
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Film Preview: Good (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Another fairly bland poster. Viggo Mortensen isn’t the box office draw he needs to be in order to pull of this poster. His homely image will certainly not pull in his small legion…
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