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Monster House (2006)
2007-08-17 00:29:57
Starts with music typical for horror movies and the image of the fall. Liefs all turn brown and red. Probably middle of October, which implies that Halloween is soon. Oh, yeah - that’s what kids say: Halloween in one day. One of the kids, DJ (Mitchel Musso) notices that the owner of the house (Kathleen Turner) [...]
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005)
2007-08-16 01:45:47
I love the Douglas Adams’s book (the 5-part trilogy). It was not easy to read, but it was hilarious. The twisted logic, the irony and the wild imagination in every story of the book - so funny. And yes, Earth does get destroyed (Don’t Panic!) by the Vogon demolition fleet - to make way for a new hyperspace [...]
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2007-08-15 23:03:54
It’s been two years this the “Gay cowboys” movie came out in theatres, and the subject has been bread and butter of movie critics, stand-up comedians and late night TV show hosts. And, to be honest, I was trying to avoid this movie, just like I was trying to avoid the “Million Dollar Baby”. The [...]
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Delicatessen (1991)
2007-08-13 12:34:28
 This movie is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeonet, same guy who directed “Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain” (aka “Amelie” in US release), which was so big in Europe and which I love so much. So I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that Netflix had added Delicatessen to my “Recommended Movies” list. Apart from director, these [...]


Rush Hour 3 (2007)
2007-08-12 02:59:01
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are back for the third installment of the cop buddy comedy (hasn’t this summer been good for all sorts of threequels?) and they are after Chinese triads this time - in Paris! And, on top of everything, they have to save the life of a mysterious nightclub performer Genevieve (Noemie Lenior) [...]
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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
2007-08-10 17:29:01
Clint Eastwood directed this Oscar-winning war movie, which in many respects is a sequel to “The Flags Of Our Fathers”, or to be more precise, the look at the same events from the other side of the battlefield. It was released in January of 2007 - a time when vast majority of Oscar-nomination hopefuls are [...]
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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984-2007)
2007-08-08 09:25:48
 I was a big fan of these BBC series when they were broadcast on TV in the 80s. When I was a kid I was hungry for all sorts of detective stories, especially of Agatha Christie ’s books. I’ve seen TV version of Miss Marple produced in other countries, by who’s to play a little old [...]


The Fountain (2006)
2007-08-07 13:12:18
 The Fountain  is a very strange and moody movie, with weird visuals that reminded me of “The Night Watch” introductory sequence, Peter Gabriel’s “Growing Up” tour visuals, Andrei Tarkovsky’s original 1972 “Solaris” and a more recent “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. More of “Solaris” then anything else.In “Solaris” the people on board the spaceship have [...]


The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
2007-08-05 04:04:13
 We tried to get into the theater for an 8PM show, but it was sold out so we had a dinner and went for a 10PM show, which already was forming a line outside the theater. After waiting anxiously through almost half an hour of commercials and previews, the movie began. The plot: In this third [...]
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Tae Guk Gi (2005)
2007-08-03 23:02:14
The movie was released in United States under the title “The Brotherhood of War“.  The plot: This is a story of two brothers, Jin-Tae (Jang Dong-Gun) and Jin-Seok (Won Bin). Jin-Tae shines shoes and tries to save money for his younger brother’s education. They live with their mute mother, who runs a noodle shop. The family is [...]


Saint Ralph (2004)
2007-08-02 00:38:13
1954. 14-year old Ralph is about to become an orphan: he doesn’t have a father and his mother is seriously ill. As a penance for sinful behavior at his Ontario Roman Catholic school’s pool he is assigned to a cross-country running team. He is desperate to save his - nothing would help but a miracle. [...]
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Saints and Soldiers (2003)
2007-07-31 22:49:42
The movie is based on actual historic events. The plot: Middle of December, 1994. A unit of American soldiers is captured in Ardennes forest in Belgium. When one of the American soldiers tries to wrestle out a weapon from a German soldier, the Germans open fire on the prisoners. This event has later become known as the Malmedy massacre. [...]
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Battleship Potemkin (1925/2005)
2007-07-25 17:55:49
I got the latest (or one of the most recent ones) Pet Shop Boys album, “Battleship Potemkin“. I was interested because I am a big fan of the movie. Sergei Eisenstein directed this silent movie in 1925 - just a few months after Stalin came to power. Since he was a Jew he didn’t get to [...]


Bridge To Terabithia (2007)
2007-07-25 01:31:51
Warning: this is Disney. This is a good sweet movie, but it’s a fairy tale for kids. The plot: a 10-year old boy Jess from a poor family wants to be the fastest runner in his class, but he is outran by a new girl, Leslie, in Jess’ school, although the race was called a “boys only” race by [...]
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Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
2007-07-23 13:06:34
A.k.a. “Divorce Italian Style” (USA). I saw this movie when I was a kid. Starring Marcello Matroianni (my mom is still in love with him) and Stefania Sandrelli. Enough had been said about this movie in the past 46 years. Just wanted to see again this beloved movie. And by the way, some movies look [...]


Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
2007-07-23 13:00:57
In 1964, Nelson Mandela , along with several other members of his party and political detainees, were convicted for treason (technically they were charged with capital crimes of sabotage, which Mandela admitted - the charges were easier for the government to prove then treason) against South Africa, and sentenced to life in prison. They were to be held [...]


Knocked Up (2006)
2007-07-23 10:52:51
This is the only movie in the past 10 years that I came back to the theater to watch again a week after the first viewing. And both times I laughted so hard my face hurt. Best movie of the summer! The plot is simple: Ben, an unemployed pot-head who lives on money he was awarded after [...]


The Sentinel (2006)
2007-08-21 02:09:24
Michael Douglas is playing a Secret Service agent who was credited with saving president Raegan’s life, and the beautiful Kim Basinger is playing president’s wife. Michael Douglas (don’t remember the name of his character, Pete I think it was) is to protect the First lady. And they have an affair that probably began since before [...]
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Zubeidaa (2001)
2007-08-25 14:08:24
Bollywood’s Shyam Benegal directed this low budget, but beautiful film. Although the film flopped on the big screen, mostly due to low profile of Shyam Benegal, it gained quite a cult when it was released on video.1951 (around the time of decolonization?). The movie begins with a Zubeidaa’s (Karisma Kapoor) funeral. The rest of the movie is about a boy becoming a man trying to find truth about his mother. Zubeidaa was an aspiring actress, very energetic and very young and free-spirited. Her The very strict, if not despotic, father Suleiman (Amrish Puri) was Muslim and owned of a movie studio. He married her off to his Pakistani friend’s son when she was still a teen. But her in-law forces her husband to leave to Karachi almost immediately after their son is born. After the divorce her husband left her with the child on her hands. But alas, several years later, she was still a very young woman and she fell in love with the [Hindu] Maharaja of one of the provin


The Time Machine (2002)
2007-08-25 01:07:16
This adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic is a big departure from the novel. Here an inventor living in New York is trying to go back in time using his invention to save the life of his girlfriend - because he’s in love and he has a guilt complex about her death. This movie did not work for me. The acting was so over the top! They’ve got the technology to make time travel into a descent digital special effect, but this adaptation of the story is terrible, and combined with the poor acting and badly designed costumes it looks like “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory”. The Eloi structures were a lot like ones in the Waterworld. The Morlocks had descent prosthetics and mostly look like Orcs from LOTR, but in the Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” monkeys were way better. How is it that Elois can speak English so well 800,000 years into the future? I am not saying the book was not flawed with inconsistencies, but why add more? How did the New
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The Lost City (2005)
2007-08-24 23:31:37
*** This review may contain spoilers *** A film by Andy Garcia starring himself, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray and Elizabeth Peña - quite a constellation of stars. It begins in 1958 in one of pre-revolution Havana’s (though film is shot in Dominican Republic) club’s room. We are witnessing a typical “fathers and sons” conflict. The family is torn by conflicting feelings: on one hand they are a wealthy family that owns the club, and the father is basically talking about how family like theirs will be ruling the country, while youngest, most hot-blooded son is talking about revolution, getting rid of Batista and building a fair society where workers are the ruling class. Yet even the father is not happy with Batista, but he believes the dictator can be removed in a non-violent way. Then the youngest son gets arrested and prosecuted for publishing an anti-regime newspaper article. Another brother gets killed during an attempted assassination of Batista. Fol


Epic Movie (2007)
2007-07-22 22:13:28
In spring there weren’t that many good movies, and I was nagging for several weeks to go to see this movie in the local movie theater, and, boy, am I glad I didn’t! What a turd! I started to watch it on DVD and it was clear the movie was lame from the first two minutes of the footage, at which point Elena asked with impatience in her voice, “do we have other DVDs to watch?”. I asked her to bear with it for another 5 minutes - maybe just the opening sequence was lame, but 5 or 10 minutes later it was just more of the same projectile vomiting. The jokes were lame, they were times badly. I think actors hated this movie as much as we did and thought it’s a freak show. A failed attempt to capitalize on relative success of the “Scary Movie” series. There aren’t enough adjectives in English language to describe how bad this movie is. If you really want to see it, demand to be paid for it. To me watching it was a torture. Like pulling teeth. Sha
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Sony PlayStation 3 (60GB)
2007-07-20 18:13:01
I have a nice 46″ Sharp Aquos, but no player to play DVDs in 1080p. I’ve done quite a bit of research, looked at stand-alone players, different formats (HD-DVD and BD), and it appeared that the best value is buying not a player, but a game console: either XBox 360 with HD DVD player, or Sony PS3. I also have a lot of movies, photos and music on my PC and I wanted a unit that can act as media player. I already have D-Link DSM-520 which can play DivX on top of many other formats, but when I playback 1080i videos on it it stutters every 3-5 seconds. PS3 seemed like the best choice: for $600 I can get a box with 8 processors, a gigabit network adapter for streaming my media to it and a BD player. A stand-alone player costs just as much. So I ordered mine online at Circuit City and went to the shop to pick it up. The machine has beautiful black finish that matches my Sharp AQUOS TV perfectly. Installation did not take long. There was no HDMI cable in the box so I used one of
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Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix (2007)
2007-07-13 17:17:46
We saw it on Saturday. Highlights: Cho Chang (Elena calls her Chow Ming for some reason) was cute when she was 11 in the “H.P. and the Saucerer’s Stone” (intentionally misspelled), but now she’s just “third world ugly” (borrowed that phrase from Chris Tucker from “Rush Hour” - 3rd installment coming soon!). Hermione Granger was not that cute when she was 11-year old 1st-year student at Hogwarts, and now she looks like a tri-breasted mutant from “Total Recall”. Not at all attractive.Dolores Umbridge in her all-pink outfit and annoying giggles looks like Laura Bush.This book is much longer the other ones, and they tried to squeeze it into what already is a 2 hours 20 minutes movie, and a lot of spicy episodes from the book were dropped. Sirius Black’s head appears in the fireplace only once, and grumpy Kreacher only appears in two scenes. Most, if not all dialogs from the book were cut down to essential phrases. T
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
2007-07-08 17:19:32
Seen it on July 7th, 2007.It may be the worst of Die Hard movies, but ironically, what makes the movie entertaining is all the ways the filmmakers are trying to insult my intelligence. Well, that may be an overstatement. Let’s just say, “all the unbelievable ways they are trying to kill the Bruce Willis’s character”. I wanted to ad an adjective like “unimaginable”, but I can imagine quite a bit. The special effects in F25 scene, for example, were way overdone. Bruce, as in previous movies, emits his one-liners after he kills each of the bad guys (”Psychopathic Ninja bitch!” etc.). Reminded me of Austin Powers, only with shaved head and New York accent. It was funny in the beginning, but then I was wondering what’s his one-liner going to be when he kills next bad guy? “Warlock’s Command Center”? He he. I liked that it seemed like Bruce actually enjoyed making this movie. I constantly felt presence of the filming c
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Transformers (2007)
2007-07-04 17:12:10
Saw ”Transformers ” on the 4th of July. My rating is A++. Would’ve been A++++, but I knocked out two stars for a) some robots still talk like in the 80s: “NUMBER FIVE - ALIVE - NO DISASSEMBLE” b) uhm.. ok, great movie. A+++. As always in Spielberg’s movies (”Poltergeist” being the only exception I can think of), kids under 5 years of age never get hurt by big monsters (”Mommy, there’s a dinasaur/robot/monkey in our swimming pool!”). Great CGIs, great humor, great story, great action. Great queues in the movie theatre too. Actually, it’s Michael Bay film. Mr. Spielberg is one of the producers. My favorite quotes: “The criminals are…hot”, “If something like that would have happened, our government would tell us. I mean, this is America!” I generally don’t like such an aggressive product placement, but in this case I will make an exception: both company’s (Hasbro and GM) p


Ratatuille (2007)
2007-06-30 14:27:16
Great dish! Thanks, Pixar, for another great feature! What a joy to watch!*** This review may contain spoilers *** We saw it either on the opening night or the night after. Lines were big and the theater was packed. Of course, a lot of people with small kids. As always with Pixar movies, they showed a short animation before the main feature, and it was very funny - kids as young as 4 years old were cracking up. Probably the funniest Pixar short I’ve seen so far. Then the main feature began. It’s a story about a rat, Remy, who lives in a French countryside with his family/clan. His family is a rather disgusting pack of rats, with no ambitions and no taste buds. All they do is any steel food they can find, almost just for the sake of steeling, because they clearly don’t enjoy the food. But Remy is different. Gifted with acute sense of smell, he dreams of becoming a chef - just like his TV and book hero, a Parisian chef Auguste Gusteau. Yes, Remy may be the only ra


Downfall (2004)
2007-09-25 03:12:06
“Der Untergang” is a very realistic Oscar-nominated drama directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel about last days of Hitler told by his stenographer Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara). The details are pretty amazing: from Hitler’s appearance, manner of speech and behavior, to external details like destruction of archives, Hitler Jugend (brainwashed children 12-15 y.o.) still fighting or hoping to fight, chaos of retreat and refugees. Berlin is about to lose clean water, electricity, transportation, food. Army is demoralized entirely: some units executed old men for treason because they were no bearing arms. There’s no more police or law enforcement. Eva Braun writes last letter to her sister. In fact most of the movie is happening inside Hitler’s bunker. We only leave it to walk Blondi, Hitler’s dog, or see Berlin being taken over by the Red army. Hitler is brilliantly played by Bruno Ganz. Hitler’s mood on his birthday was pretty grim: he was fru
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Eastern Promises (2007) R 100 min
2007-09-24 02:12:16
Finally someone had made an honest movie about modern mafia and human trafficking, Ukrainian mafia in London in this case. David Cronenberg, famous for directing “The History Of Violence”, directed this film and starred his favorite actor Viggo Mortensen once again in the main role. Technically, Viggo’s character is a supporting role, but his performance is so strong and vivid he is perceived as a main character. The plot: Anna (Naomi Watts) is a nurse at the hospital in London, where a bleeding pregnant teenage girl is delivered. Her baby is saved, but the girl does not survive. Anna discovers her diary in her bag. Anna tries to consult with her Russian immigrant uncle Stepan to get the diary translated to English so she can find the dead girl’s family and send her daughter to them. The diary leads her to a Russian “Trans-Siberian” restaurant, which is a cover for a nest of Ukrainian mafia, but before she realized it, Anna put herself, the lit
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I had a bad dream tonight
2007-09-29 16:31:39
I think I should watch fewer movies. Tonight I got a clear indication of that. I don’t remember the entire dream, but the most vivid part of was the ending. In that dream, myself and my spiritual/martial arts mentor played by Sean Connery had to fight two Hell-hounds in the basement of a church using nothing but our martial arts skills and kitchen utensils. The scene begins in the basement where we had an argument about his over-controlling and tough mentoring style and my desire to go in a different direction both spiritually and physically, when we heard some sort of “hell-hound alert” and had to run through the corridor in the basement with a lot of rusty pipes sticking around and lit by an only light bulb, to the church’s hall. Then lights go out entirely and all I could see were silhouettes of Hell-hounds in the church’s windows, with the only source of light being the full Moon outside low in the sky. I heard sounds of the fight between one of the


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