Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #10
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Review: Eastern Promises (2007)
Eastern Promises Rating Director David Cronenberg Screenplay Steve Knight Length 100 min. Starring Naomi Watts, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl MPAA Rating R (for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review After the blood bath of A History of Violence, David…
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Review: Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Margot at the Wedding Rating Director Noah Baumbach Screenplay Noah Baumbach Length 91 min. Starring Zane Pais, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Flora Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Seth Barrish, Matthew Arkin, Ciaran Hinds, Halley Feiffer, John Turturro MPAA Rating R (for sexual content and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Recrimination, discovery and mental abuse are…
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Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Rating Director Julian Schnabel Screenplay Ronald Harwood (Novel: Jean-Dominique Bauby) Length 112 min. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jose Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow MPAA Rating PG-13 (for nudity, sexual content and some language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster…
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Review: The Golden Compass (2007)
The Golden Compass Rating Director Chris Weitz Screenplay Chris Weitz (Novel “Northern Lights” by Philip Pullman) Length 113 min. Starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McShane, Sam Elliott, Christopher Lee, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kathy Bates MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sequences…
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Review: The Orphanage (2007)
The Orphanage Rating Director Juan Antonio Bayona Screenplay Sergio G. Sanchez Length 100 min. Starring Beln Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Prncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andrs Gertrdix, Edgar Vivar, scar Casas, Mireia Renau, Georgina Avellaneda, Carla Gordillo Alicia, Alejandro Campos, Carmen Lpez, scar Lara, Geraldine Chaplin, Carol Surez MPAA Rating R (for some disturbing content)…
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Review: Zodiac (2007)
Zodiac Rating Director David Fincher Screenplay James Vanderbilt (Book: Robert Graysmith) Length 158 min. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chlo Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, Philip Baker Hall MPAA Rating R (for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual images.) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay John Logan (Musical: Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler; Play: Christopher Bond) Length 116 min. Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders MPAA Rating R (For graphic bloody…
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Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets Rating Director Jon Turtletaub Screenplay The Wibberleys (Cormac & Marianne), Gregory Poirier, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio Length 124 min. Starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Michael Maize, Timothy V. Murphy MPAA Rating PG (for some violence and…
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Review: The Lookout (2007)
The Lookout Rating Director Scott Frank Screenplay Scott Frank Length 99 min. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband MPAA Rating R (for language, some violence and sexual content) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The screenwriter of Out of Sight has…
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Review: Away from Her (2007)
Away from Her Rating Director Sarah Polley Screenplay Sarah Polley (Short Story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro) Length 110 min. Starring Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Stacey LaBerge, Deanna Dezmari, Clare Coulter, Thomas Hauff, Alberta Watson MPAA Rating PG-13 Buy/Rent Movie Poster Source Material Review An achingly tender portrait of…
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The DVD Report #39
The death of Heath Ledger on Oscar nomination day set a pall over the 80th annual Academy Awards, already suffering from uncertainty due to the Hollywood writers’ strike. It was just two years ago that the then 26-year-old actor was nominated for starring in the youth-to-middle-age story of conflicted gay cowboy Ennis Del Mar in…
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Review: Once (2007)
Once Rating Director John Carney Screenplay John Carney Length 85 min. Starring Glen Hansard, Markta Irglov, Alaistair Foley, Kaet Haugh, Senan Haugh, Gerard Hendrick, Bill Hodnett, Danuse Ktrestova, Geoff Minogue, Hugh Walsh Mal Whyte MPAA Rating R (for language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review One of the year’s best musicals hardly feels like one. Once…
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Review: Waitress (2007)
Waitress Rating Director Adrienne Shelly Screenplay Adrienne Shelly Length 108 min. Starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexual content, language and thematic elements) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review A gifted pie maker dreams of what her life might be like if…
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Film Preview: Beaufort (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: I can’t really see a purpose to this trailer other than it shows us a more detailed vision of the “O” in the title. The sandy color is fitting, but the image is…
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Film Preview: 88 Minutes (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: Someone forgot to tell the designers of this poster that black, white and red were out. This poster is lifeless, boring and forgettable. Trailer Rating: C Review: I can’t imagine this film being…
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