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Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Review: Iron Man (2008)
Iron Man Rating Director Jon Favreau Screenplay Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway (Adapted from the Comic Book series) Length 126 min. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir MPAA Rating PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive…
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The DVD Report #62
A high adrenaline thriller, Pete Travis’ Vantage Point moves so fast that you don’t have time to think, which is, I guess, the point. It’s like eating a meal with empty calories that only later do you realize you really didn’t have anything good to eat. The film concerns the attempted assassination of an American…
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Film Preview: Harold (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: While the trailer makes the film look like a dark comedy of Juno-like roots, this poster makes the film seem more like some lame comedy reject. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: While it’s nice…
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Film Preview: The Doorman (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Pretty lame and uninventive, this yellow, mauve and blue poster is visually irrational and relatively unexceptional even if it ties in to the film’s subject. Trailer Rating: C- Review: At first, this looked…
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Film Preview: Diminished Capacity (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: They keep on making them. The “heartwarming” story about love set against the backdrop of parental issues does seem the perfect subject for a poster like this, but separating film scenes and character…
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Film Preview: Disaster Movie (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+; B- Review: Much more funny than the trailer itself, this poster is humorous in a National Lamppon’s kind of way without being grossly offensive visually. This is the poster that best aligns this film…
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Film Preview: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Exceedingly well crafted, this poster looks amazing, but is noticeably void of emotion. It’s almost as if the producers wanted something sterile and only faintly dangerous from the poster and they have assuredly…
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Film Preview: Encounters at the Far End of the World (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: As interesting as the preview looks, you would expect a great deal more from the poster. We get that Antarctica is a vast expanse of ice, but when we see a documentary about…
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The DVD Report #61
After a long dry spell we’ve finally gotten a wealth of good new films on DVD to choose from. Its title taken from the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis won numerous richly deserved awards including an Oscar nomination as Best Animated Feature of 2007. Taken from two autobiographical…
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Film Preview: Frozen River (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: We’ve seen this type of image before and while it’s not particularly compelling, it is at least fits with the story. It’s not the best winter motif poster, but it’s better than many…
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Film Preview: Bolt (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+; D Review: At least this first poster is a bit more detailed and interesting. While neither is that good, the second poster is undoubtedly worse, relying more on the title and the production company…
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Film Preview: Kabluey (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Complementary colors are used well in this poster, balancing the slightly imprecise blue with a heavy, semi-saturatd orange. It doesn’t quite capture the melancholy of the trailer, but it’s not too awful to…
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Film Preview: In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: While not your standard scene-pane poster, this one does try some different approaches including color balance, image selections and lettering. However, it still looks too much like its kin, which negates much that…
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Film Preview: Mad Detective (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Looking at this poster, I would almost forget how disinteresting the trailer is. While the shattered glass look is hardly new, the colors are more appealing than past incarnations and it makes the…
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Film Preview: CSNY: déjà vu (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Cluttered and bland, this poster does one thing well: it is entirely appropriate to the theme of the film. There’s a chaoticness to the trailer that is reflected in the poster. Trailer Rating:…
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