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Review: Wall-E (2008)
Wall-E Rating Director Andrew Stanton Screenplay Andrew Stanton Length 103 min. Starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver MPAA Rating G Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Charming, effervescent and socially relevant are three terms that accompany almost every Pixar feature thus far made. Wall-E takes many of…
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Review: April Fool’s Day (2008)
April Fool’s Day Rating Director The Butcher Brothers Screenplay Mikey Wigart, Danilo Bach Length 91 min. Starring Taylor Cole, Josh Henderson, Scout Taylor-Compton, Joe Egender, Jennifer Siebel, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer, Frank Aard, Sabrina Aldridge MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Source Material Review It goes without saying that remaking well liked films is an ill-advised…
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The DVD Report #66
It’s time for another in my series of “Films By Year” and their availability on DVD. While my articles on the years from 1957 through 1961 focused on films released in the U.S. in those years, I’m doing a bit of shift in focus starting with 1962 and going with the first year of theatrical…
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Film Preview: The Order of Myths (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Not terribly impressive nor involving. It’s overly simplified and feels out of place with regard to a film about Mardi Gras. Trailer Rating: C Review: I can’t figure out what the film is…
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Film Preview: Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: B- Review: Having never seen Wong Kar Wai’s first film,…
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Film Preview: Patti Smith – Dream of Life (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Bland and unoriginal. Simplistic and inelegant. Trailer Rating: B- Review: While I’m sure Patti Smith has had a fascinating life as a pioneering female rock legend, the trailer itself doesn’t look terribly exciting.…
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Film Preview: I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Symbolic testimony of a country in crisis, the poster, while sensational to say the least, certainly captures the heart and spirit of the documentary. Trailer Rating: B+ Review: This isn’t your typical educational…
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Film Preview: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Obviously taking its cue from Army of Darkness, this poster is crude and cheesey, which is entirely fitting within the framework of the film’s plot. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: Robert Englund hamming it…
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The DVD Report #65
Peter Luketic’s 21 starts out well on the campus of Boston’s M.I.T. where poor boy Jim Sturgess falls under the influence of evil professor Kevin Spacey who teaches him to count cards, a trick he will need to win the money he needs for his tuition at Harvard Medical School. Once the film gets to…
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Film Preview: Beer for My Horses (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: At least the poster effectively uses color and symmetery, but that’s as far as it goes with a rather uninteresting group of characters and lame tagline. Trailer Rating: D- Review: This might appeal…
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Film Preview: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: B- Review: Something about Simon Pegg’s films seem a bit…
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Film Preview: Body of Lies (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: This poster is so dark and minorly detailed that without the names at the top, you might not even know who is featured on the poster. The concept escapes me on this one…
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Film Preview: Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B-; C Review: Two posters to open is quite rare. The first poster is a bit more traditional featuring members of the comedy’s cast in positions around the title, shaped in the form of the…
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The DVD Report #64
Two years ago the hi-definition format wars began between the Sony-backed Blu-ray and the Toshiba-backed HD-DVD. The war has ended and Sony won. The question now is will Blu-ray become as popular as standard definition DVD or remain a niche market the way the laser disc was for upscale buyers who wanted something better than…
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Review: The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rating Director Christopher Nolan Screenplay Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer Length 152 min. Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Looking back three years…
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