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Film Preview: The Elephant King (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Putting the “Thai” women front-and-center and pushing Ellen Burstyn to a slightly smaller background and putting the two male leads, the ones whose stories the film appears to be about, at a mid-foreground…
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Review: The Savages (2007)
The Savages Rating Director Tamara Jenkins Screenplay Tamara Jenkins Length 113 min. Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Hal Blankenship, Joan Jaffe MPAA Rating R (for some sexuality and language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The painful decision…
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Review: The Namesake (2007)
The Namesake Rating Director Mira Nair Screenplay Sooni Taraporevala (Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri) Length 122 min. Starring Irfan Khan, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu, Kal Penn, Sahira Nair, Zuleikha Robinson, Glenne Headly, Daniel Gerroll, Jacinda Barrett MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexuality/nudity, a scene of drug use, some disturbing images and brief language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster…
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Review: A Mighty Heart (2007)
A Mighty Heart Rating Director Michael Winterbottom Screenplay John Orloff (Book: Mariane Pearl) Length 108 min. Starring Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Saira Khan, Aliya Khan, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O’Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah…
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Review: What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
What Would Jesus Buy? Rating Director Rob VanAlkemade Screenplay None Length 90 min. Starring None MPAA Rating PG (for thematic material and brief mild language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review Have you ever wondered what Jesus would have thought about the current commercialization of his name? What Would Jesus Buy? puts the viewer alongside Reverend Billy…
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Review: Into the Wild (2007)
Into the Wild Rating Director Sean Penn Screenplay Sean Penn (Book by Jon Krakauer) Length 140 min. Starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Krisetn Stewart, Hal Holbrook MPAA Rating R (for language and some nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review If you ever…
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The DVD Report #73
Criterion continues to release near-perfect restorations of classic films. Three new releases add handsomely to their reputation. Director Michael Powell in seeing The Small Back Room at a Lincoln Center retrospective in 1991 found the then-more-than-forty-year-old film to be a cold movie. Although the film was well received by the British critics in 1949 (it…
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Film Preview: Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Using one of the animated characters from the film, the poster is surprisingly lifeless. The title is too large and the character not frightening enough. I don’t see how this poster would bring…
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Film Preview: Doubt (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: It is a bit too simplistic, but it is symbolically relevant and sparse enough to be attractive. It should draw a few people up to take a closer look, but I don’t know…
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Film Preview: Choose Connor (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C; C+ Review: We’ve seen several posters using the image-within-an-image technique used to create an interesting poster, but here it just looks haphazard and uninventing. It’s almost frightening to look at, possibly scaring off more…
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Film Preview: Four Christmases (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 funny to see how short Reese is compared to Vince, but other than that, there is nothing exciting or original in this poster. Trailer Rating: B Review: Vince Vaughn is one of…
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Film Preview: Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: While there’s something slightly clever about the leaning tree (no doubt a slight reference to the tree in the front yard the family patriarch has promised to get rid of), the line-up of…
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Film Preview: Ballast (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D- Review: It may match the sense of realism expressed in the preview, but it’s hardly an attention grabbing poster. Trailer Rating: C Review: I’m sure there’s something interesting about this film, but I’m not…
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Film Preview: Changeling (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: I don’t quite understand the choice here other than to highlight the film’s star. And while it’s stylish in certain regards, it isn’t very fitting. Trailer Rating: A- Review: This looks like an…
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Film Preview: Nights and Weekends (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: It captures the realism of the film’s subjects, but it’s not terribly enticing. The festival laurels might draw in a small crowd, but from a distance, I can’t see how anyone would really…
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