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The Nutty Professor.
Not a Good Movie: First, I am not now, and have never been what you might call a Jerry Lewis fan. I generally find his comedy pretty insufferable. Second, I have never seen the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor, but all I can say is that it has to be better than this!To be sure, the film has a lot of great window dressing. The bright primary colors and 60s pop culture ...
1 day, 5 hours ago
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Soundtrack for a Revolution.
History Heard Through Music: Soundtrack to a Revolution is a documentary of the Civil Rights Movement in America, and it does a pretty good job at summarizing the major events. While it will never displace the comprehensive nature of the definitive documentary Eyes on the Prize, it wisely takes a different tack. The twist here is that it's based around the music of the movement, examining each step of the struggle in light of ...
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The Secret World of Arrietty.
Wonderful: 'The Borrowers' series has been adapted to the screen (large and small) several times before, but never very successfully. But Hiromasa Yonebayashi (better known as 'Maro'), a rising star at Studio Ghibli, and the probable successor to Hayao Miyazaki, has done what none of the others could.The Secret World of Arrietty is an animated film that has all the wonderment of the great children's fantasy tales like The Wizard of ...
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Sans Soleil.
A Bunch of Home Movies Spliced Together End-to-End: Sans Soleil has been heralded by critics for decades as a revolutionary piece of Avant-garde cinema. Perhaps, but that doesn't really mean it's particularly engaging. Like other Chris Marker films, it has a tendency to ramble. Ostensibly a of letters written to the narrator by a traveling cameraman, it seems more like a collection of found footage strung together with a 'story' made-up to lay over top. It's more like ...
4 days, 5 hours ago
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The Iron Lady.
Iron Shell, But Hollow Inside: A biography of Margaret Thatcher was probably inevitable in a day and age where we get political biopics sooner and sooner after the subject's life and/or political career (Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland, W.); can a Ronald Reagan film be far behind?The film won an Academy Award, or more accurately, Meryl Streep won an Oscar, for best lead actress in the title role; and that pretty much sums up ...
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May be difficult for Western audiences...: Pigs is a "police procedural" (or more accurately "police-lack-of-procedural") set in the days following the collapse of Communism in Russia and the Eastern Bloc. It has a great premise, no doubt based on truth: when the Soviet Union fell, KGB agents began new careers, some as low-paid police officers, and others used their underworld contacts to become organized crime bosses.But, I have to be honest, this film is probably rough ...
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The Avengers.
Fun: What can I say?You've probably already seen this movie, and if you haven't...See this movie.With the last few Marvel films to reach the big screen ranging from lukewarm to only marginally good, they really needed The Avengers to be a hit. And by choosing Joss Whedon (himself a dyed-in-the-wool Marvelite) they picked the right man for the job. Without going into any details to prevent any spoilers whatsoever, I'll just ...
1 week, 5 days ago
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Remember the summer that seemed to last forever? Now so long ago.: When science fiction was new, stories that just dealt with space travel were good enough. Eventually though, space opera had to move on to something more substantive. The same is true with time travel. By this point, every permutation of time travel stories for the sake of exploring time travel has been done - the time traveler who changes the future, the time traveler that learns that nothing can change ...
1 week, 5 days ago
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Captain America: The First Avenger.
Like a '40s Matinee: Captain America finally makes it to the screen. He may be the 'first' Avenger (and even predate Marvel Comics), but he's the last one to get a movie (if we discount a few low budget attempts at a Cpt.A. film). It's not surprising that in a day and age when the majority of a film's revenue comes from foreign box office, and a time at which America's standing in the ...
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Forgotten Silver.
Forgotten Jackson: In his first two decades as a filmmaker, Peter Jackson never missed a mark, whether going for high camp or art house intellectualism, and Forgotten Silver is his excellent take on the mockumentary genre. Forgotten Silver is a fictional tale about a great New Zealand filmmaker whose work was 'rediscovered' by the director. It's full of in-jokes for movie fans, but the great thing about this semi-obscure gem is that ...
3 weeks, 3 days ago
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
Flipside of the first 'Apes' movie.: In a lot of ways, Escape from the Planet of the Apes is the flipside to the original Planet of the Apes film. In this installment, Zira and Cornelius and Caesar crash land in the 20th century where they are initially treated like animals, until a sympathetic animal psychologist learns of their intelligence, just as they once did for Taylor in the first film. Also in a reversal of the ...
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
Original Director + Original Cast = More Fitting Ending to Series: Up to this point, the best films in the in the Elm Street series are those that combine the talents of the original writer/director, Wes Craven, and the original cast, namely Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon. In other words, the first film and the third film. So, it's no surprise that when those talents are reunited, we get one of the best films in the series to end on - ...
4 weeks ago
A Movie About Our Time: With a global financial crisis that's been going on for years at the time of this writing, and a growing disparity between rich and poor everywhere, even in the so-called first world, it was only a matter of time (pun intended) before someone came up with a sci-fi allegory about it.In Time is that movie, about a future where the vast majority of the world's currency is in the hands ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago
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Mission: Impossible III.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Steals the Show: The first two Mission: Impossible films were a mess. Thankfully, this third film starts to improve things, largely thanks to Philip Seymour Hooffman who steals the show as the villain of the piece. As usual, the IMF is pretty much Tom Cruise and a handful of B-listers, but it's the best of the first three films.
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Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
The Best Mission: Impossible Film: My problem with the entire Mission: Impossible series is that it trades in a great TV concept - an ensemble piece about an 'Impossible Mission Force' - for a series of Tom Cruise star vehicles with a rotating batch of supporting cast members. And while the series' attempt to balance action with intrigue is laudable, it never really succeeded.Until now. Often times the fourth film in a series is the ...
1 month ago
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.
It Eventually Comes In From the Cold: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is the first in the series of spy thrillers featuring M.I.6 spy George Smiley - though Smiley himself only appears briefly, playing a mostly behind-the-scenes role. Let's face it, John LeCarre's espionage stories are better novels than they are films - this is dense, talky stuff, after all - James Bond, it ain't.But then, there's something appealing about the non-glamorized, allegedly more-authentic ...
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