Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #10
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Postal (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: Comedies have used this poster design layout for years and it never gets better. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: The first thing I thought when I saw the film was made by Uwe Boll…
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Film Preview: Little Chenier (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: It looks like a Jean-Claude Van Damme film set in the Louisiana Bayou by the looks of this poster. The colors are pleasant, but it’s not terribly similar to the preview’s plot. Trailer…
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Film Preview: Baby Mama (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: Tina Fey has done wonders with deadpan humor…
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Film Preview: Me & You, Us, Forever (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Vague and blurry, this poster exemplifies the trailer in a way the producers probably weren’t intending. Trailer Rating: C Review: All we know about this film after watching the trailer is that for…
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Review: Juno (2007)
Juno Rating Director Jason Reitman Screenplay Diablo Cody Length 92 min. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby MPAA Rating PG-13 (for mature thematic material, sexual content and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review A film sometimes too precious for its own good, Juno turns a girl’s…
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Review: There Will Be Blood (2007)
There Will Be Blood Rating Director Paul Thomas Anderson Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson (Novel: Oil! by Upton Sinclair) Length 158 min. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin J. O’Connor, Ciaran Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Barry Del Sherman, Russell Harvard, Harrison Taylor, Stockton Taylor, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Dano, Sydney McCallister, David Willis, Christine Oleiniczak, Kellie Hill, James Downey,…
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Review: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Rating Director Sidney Lumet Screenplay Kelly Masterson Length 117 min. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary Harris, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Brian F. O’Byrne, Blaine Horton, Arija Bareikis, Leonardo Cimino, Lee Wilkof MPAA Rating R (for a scene of strong graphic sexuality,…
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The DVD Report #38
Last week we took a look back at the Oscars of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. This week, with the release of the 40th Anniversary Edition of In the Heat of the Night and the forthcoming release of the 40th Anniversary Edition of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, it is a good time to…
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Film Preview: The Bank Job (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: It’s an old fashioned poster for a film that might only wish it were old fashioned. This is likely to be the best part of the film. Trailer Rating: C Review: There are…
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Film Preview: The Air I Breathe (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: The trend of imposing indiidual images on a separate larger image seems to be grabbing hold of the movie industry. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t and this is a perfect example of…
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Film Preview: Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C; C+ Review: Seeming to more equate this with an old world Asian style than specifically Chinese, the poster’s makers are hoping that a combination of a panda, Jack Black’s name and the title will…
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Film Preview: Defiance (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+; C; C+ Review: A placeholder poster with some character, albeit very little. Having a scene from the film is engaging, but hardly artistic. I would have expected something a little less bland for the…
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Film Preview: Meet the Spartans (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Taking obvious cues from the Scary Movie series of posters, this motley array of characters provides only a meager few smiles. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: The only funny thing in the trailer is…
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Film Preview: Paranoid Park (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: While the poster is stylish, there’s very little substance and the kid on the poster might attract fellow skateboarders to the flick, but it’s doubtful it will lure anyone else. Trailer Rating: B-…
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The DVD Report #37
With the nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards less than a week away, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the films Oscar liked 25, 50 and 75 years ago. Twenty-five years ago the Best Picture nominees were E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Gandhi, Missing, Tootsie and The Verdict,…
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