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Film Preview: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: The poster, while only tangentially related to the documentary, is in a classic style that looks fresh and cinematically appropriate. It’s a work of art that moves beyond traditional poster design. Trailer Rating:…
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Film Preview: Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: The poster is a bit more akin to Foolish than it is to Flashbacks. The strips of images featuring charcters is a bit old and the cornflower blue background color feels entirely out…
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Film Preview: Hounddog (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: The poster looks strikingly like the one used for Funny Games which featured Naomi Watts “crying” in supposed terror. Here, it’s just a morose little Dakota Fanning face and I must admit it’s…
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The DVD Report #76
Disney has entered the Blu-ray market with the re-release of its 1959 animated Sleeping Beauty. The disc looks terrific, the colors sharper than the previous standard DVD release of five years ago, but the film itself has always struck me as a bit lackluster when compared to the glorious work of such earlier efforts as…
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Review: City of Ember (2008)
City of Ember Rating Director Gil Kenan Screenplay Caroline Thompson (Book by Jeanne Duprau) Length 95 min. Starring Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Mary Kay Place, Liz Smith, Amy Quinn, Catherine Quinn, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mackenzie Crook MPAA Rating PG for mild peril and some thematic elements Buy/Rent Movie…
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Review: Blindness (2008)
Blindness Rating Director Fernando Meirelles Screenplay Don McKellar (Novel by Jose Saramago) Length 120 min. Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Susan Coyne, Sandra Oh MPAA Rating R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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Film Preview: Christmas on Mars: The Flaming Lips (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: Effectively matching the trailer’s bizarreness, the poster is strange, unusual and completely fun. Trailer Rating: B Review: Telling you the entire plot is a costly decision, but considering the style and subject, it…
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Film Preview: Antarctica (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The title seems entirely out of place and two of my least favorite poster design elements are present (the festival laurels and the side-by-side film image panes, but the core image sufficiently explains…
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Film Preview: House (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: So, the pentagram features prominently in the trailer, but the poster really doesn’t do enough to explain why the film is called house. Granted, the pentagram will draw curious onlookers to its subject,…
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Film Preview: JCVD (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: Void of common sense visuals or flashy subtext, a simple poster of Van Damme looking beaten and tired does not make for an enticing image except perhaps to his legions of fans, which…
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Film Preview: Good Dick (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: It shows us the two leads. That’s it. Nothing special. It’s all there for you to see and it’s not terribly engaging. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: Quirky is probably the least unusual word…
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Film Preview: Let the Right One In (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: The poster is hardly appealing. While it does a sufficient job explaining the lead of the film, it lacks any visual panache that often accompanies horror films which is both an asset and…
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Film Preview: The Matador (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: The most disturbing aspect of the poster is for anyone who knows anything about bullfighting and that surrounds the sword the matador has pulled out of its sheath within the banner. Otherwise, the…
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The DVD Report #75
Some of the major films released earlier in the year are now making their way to Blu-ray and standard DVD. Character actor Richard Jenkins has the role of his career in one of the year’s best films, Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, now available in both formats. Much like McCarthy’s earlier The Station Agent, it’s one…
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Film Preview: Frontrunners (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Drawing the four candidates featured in the film on a piece of paper reminiscent of the drawings kids typically make while they are supposed to be paying attention in class is a clever…
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