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  • Atonement – A Movie Review

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    I’ve read a few of Ian McEwan’s books, and while I’ve always found them stylistically impressive, I’ve never been too enthralled with the actual stories.  Because of this, I wasn’t in a huge rush to watch Atonement, a movie based upon one of his novels. In all honesty, I brought this movie home only as…

  • Cloverfield – A Movie Review

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    (Notice:  Spoilers Ahead) By far, the best thing about Cloverfield was the previews hyping its release. Granted, by the time I finally got around to watching it on DVD, I’d seen the creature, but that’s really about all I knew.  I hadn’t heard much about the storyline or any major revelations.  Of course, I now…

  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story – A Movie Review

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    Due to Judd Apatow’s involvement with Walk Hard, I really had high hopes.  I’m afraid those hopes were dashed.  Walk Hard was an exercise in gratuitous vulgarity that totally doused the few truly funny moments that existed.  While the lyrics to Dewey Cox’s songs were uncouth, they were so creatively dirty you couldn’t help but…

  • No Country for Old Men – A Movie Review

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    It’s a rare occurrence indeed when a film adaptation lives up to its source material, but with No Country for Old Men, Ethan and Joel Coen have done right by Cormac McCarthy.  In McCarthy’s novel, he is terse and economic with details.  The book moves at an incredibly frantic pace and he shows no mercy…

  • Blade Runner: The Final Cut – A Movie Review

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    Believe it or not, this is the first and only version of Blade Runner that I’ve seen.  I understand that there have been many different versions over the years, but this one, The Final Cut, is supposed to be the end-all-be-all. Supposedly, the director, Ridley Scott, never intended the studio-mandated Harrison Ford narration in the…

  • Fracture – A Movie Review

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    There’s so much I want to say about this film that I simply can’t for fear of spoiling some pretty captivating moments and revelations.I will say this: Watching Anthony Hopkins as the manipulative, arrogant, charming aeronautical engineer and Ryan Gosling as the manipulative, arrogant, charming lawyer was riveting.  Both men ooze charisma in this film,…

  • Grindhouse: Planet Terror/Death Proof – A Movie Review

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    I want to point out that I did not see Grindhouse in the theater; I watched Planet Terror and Death Proof as two separate movies on DVD.  Therefore, I did not get the full “grindhouse” experience as the directors and producers sought to offer in the theater. That being said, I watched Planet Terror first…

  • Ed Wood – A Movie Review

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    I’m a big Tim Burton fan, and when Burton and Johnny Depp get together, it’s always magic.  That’s why I always felt bad about not seeing the movie Ed Wood.  Released in 1994, I simply never got around to watching it, but after hearing about how good it was, I finally decided to sit down…

  • Eastern Promises – A Movie Review

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    I really enjoyed Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, so when I heard they were teaming up again for Eastern Promises, I had very high expectations.   Eastern Promises offers a powerfully subdued yet intense performance by Viggo Mortensen as a Russian driver/enforcer working his way up London’s most notorious Russian crime…

  • The Heartbreak Kid – A Movie Review

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    A remake directed by the incorrigible Farrelly brothers, I really expected to like The Heartbreak Kid.  After all, it stars Ben Stiller, so we essentially have the same team who brought us There’s Something About Mary. Unfortunately, while this movie had a few really funny visual gags, the movie as a whole disappointed and I…