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The DVD Report #84
Already the second highest grossing film of all time, Christopher Nolan’s new Batman film, The Dark Knight, is a meditation on the dichotomy of good and evil. Even before the untimely death of co-star Heath Ledger, this was the year’s most eagerly anticipated film. Ledger’s death gave it free but sad publicity and the knowledge…
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Review: The Wrestler (2008)
The Wrestler Rating Director Darren Aronofsky Screenplay Robert D. Siegel Length 109 min. Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review The world of professional wrestling has long been accused of faking events to capture the audience’s attention. The Wrestler is…
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Review: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire Rating Director Danny Boyle Screenplay Simon Beaufoy (Novel “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup) Length 120 min. Starring Dev Patel, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanay Hemant Chheda, Freida Pinto, Rubiana Ali, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Madhur Mittal, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Saurabh Shakula, Raj Zutshi MPAA Rating R for some violence,…
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Film Preview: Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: From a blocking perspective, the poster is fairly strong. Sandwiching the White House between he journalist and the investigator is a potent image and the positioning/look of the faces is evocative. However, overlaying…
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Film Preview: Che (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: It’s a little too simplistic and a little too obvious. There are probably many more compelling choices of framing and situation, but this is all they could come up with apparently. Trailer Rating:…
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Film Preview: $9.99 (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Taking “images” from the film is seldom a good idea, but the choice of foreground images is quite clever considering the import of it to the plot according to the trailer. Trailer Rating:…
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Film Preview: The Black Balloon (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: The mustard yellow background is a little less vibrant than the other yellows being used this year, but still not very original and the smattering of film images around the outside edge with…
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Review: Frost/Nixon (2008)
Frost/Nixon Rating Director Ron Howard Screenplay Peter Morgan (His Play) Length 122 min. Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Toby Jones, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Andy Milder, Kate Jennings Grant, Gabriel Jarret, Jim Meskimen, Patty McCormack MPAA Rating R for some language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review It’s…
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Review: Australia (2008)
Australia Rating Director Baz Luhrmann Screenplay Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan Length 165 min. Starring Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brand Walters, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry, Essie Davis, Arthur Dignam, Jacek Koman, Ben Mendelsohn MPAA Rating PG-13 for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and…
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The DVD Report #83
The Oscars are 80 years old, soon to be 81. Hollywood’s annual self-indulgent ceremony of patting itself on the back began with the dawn of the sound film era and reached its halfway (to date) point in 1968 when movies and styles were changing. The Motion Picture Production Code which rigidly enforced certain rules since…
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Review: Untraceable (2008)
Untraceable Rating Director Gregory Hoblit Screenplay Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker, Allison Burnett Length 101 min. Starring Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Lewis, Tyrone Giordano, Perla Haney-Jardine, Tim deZarn, Chris Cousins, Jesse Tyler Ferguson MPAA Rating R for grisly violence and torture, and some language Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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The DVD Report #82
The animation in Pixar’s WALL-E is flawless. Even so, the film has the look and feel of a “real” movie rather than a cartoon. Very much in the mode of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterwork 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film is about Earth’s last inhabitant, a garbage collecting robot, who comes to save the world.…
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Review: Quantum of Solace (2008)
Quantum of Solace Rating Director Marc Forster Screenplay Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade Length 106 min. Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman, Rory Kinnear, Joaquin Cosio, Fernando Guillen Curevo, Jesus Ochoa, Glenn Foster, Paul Ritter, Simon Kassianides, Stana Katic,…
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Review: Local Color (2008)
Local Color Rating Director George Gallo Screenplay George Gallo Length 107 min. Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning, Samantha Mathis, Ron Perlman, Diana Scarwid, Julie Lott MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Review Growing and developing as an artist is not an easy task. Through torment, joy and other emotions,…
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Film Preview: Heaven on Earth (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: I’ve noticed a hand-drawn art work motif to nearly every Bollywood movie I’ve yet seen. It’s not very attractive to me personally and the image contained within is hardly indicative of the film’s…
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