In 1968 at the Ford Motor Company’s factory in Dagenham, England, the roof leaks and it’s sweltering in the section that turns out seat covers for the Ford Escort. Women “man” the sewing machines and blouses are doffed to make the workday bearable. The girls are working class and full of [...]
Thursday 31 Mar 2011 |
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How Do You Know was a real disappointment. You’d think that a cast that included Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, and Jack Nicholson, could pull off a decent Rom Com, but alas, this was a poorly scripted effort, the plotline was not well-developed, and the only actor who even began to inhabit his role [...]
Thursday 24 Mar 2011 |
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“I love indie rock, 50 Cent… Madonna…”
“Where is the list of banned female singers?”
In America you could overhear the first snippet of conversation, but never the second.
Friday 18 Mar 2011 |
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Every Day is a gentle dramedy about a couple who are in the early, unsettling stages of middle-age, and their family (and its problems). The couple are played by the very fine Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt, both of whom excel in projects like this, where they can both have room [...]
Friday 11 Mar 2011 |
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The high-concept Due Date definitely delivers some laughs thanks to the odd-couple casting of Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, but not quite as many as one would expect to find in a comedy featuring such highly regarded comic personas.
Friday 25 Feb 2011 |
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I really did enjoy spending 98 minutes watching You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. We see Woody Allen here doing what he does best: using his satiric lens to depict the most human emotions and experiences. His humor is unmistakable, and if you’re a fan, you’ll probably like the film enough to [...]
Thursday 17 Feb 2011 |
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It takes a while for RED get around to explaining its title, but it won’t spoil anything if I tell you it’s an acronym: “Retired, Extremely Dangerous.” This tag is specifically applied to Bruce Willis, who plays former CIA operative Frank Moses, and more generally to the motley (and all-star) assortment [...]
Friday 28 Jan 2011 |
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Film maudit. “Cursed film.” A film whose subject matter pushes it to the fringes of culture and nowhere near the marketplace. Provocative and nuanced at best, slyboots childish attention getter at worst. Visceral beauty and intensity underscoring–to the point of being unwatchable–the physical or emotional carnage visited upon the characters portrayed.
So why [...]
Friday 28 Jan 2011 |
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Boobs and blood go hand-in-hand in Piranha 3D, director Alexandre Aja’s perfectly stupid but surprisingly fun rehash of the 1978 Joe Dante classic about those nasty little man-eating fish that, while hardly the scariest of horror flicks, may make you think twice about going skinny dipping.
Thursday 13 Jan 2011 |
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Hollywood loves to make high school sex comedies based (loosely) on classic works of literature. Clueless was adapted from Austen’s “Emma”, and 10 Things I Hate About You is a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. When these sort of movies happen, we can only hope that the writers involved keep [...]
Friday 24 Dec 2010 |
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