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Movie Review: River Queen 2007-10-27 08:10:39 River Queen
is a film by Vincent Ward. The celebrated New Zealand director, nominated for two Golden Palms (The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, Vigil), returns to the 1860s with the bittersweet story of Sarah O’Brien during the British colonization of New Zealand. The natural beauty of New Zealand, the rich cultural diversity and some fine [...] Read more:Movie Review
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Movie Review: Lolita 2007-11-03 17:35:23 Lolita is a film by Stanley Kubrick. The movie is based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel entitled Lolita, and manages to capture the multi-layered, complexity of Nabokov’s book. Lolita stars James Mason (A Star Is Born), Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank), Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove) and Sue Lyon in a career best. Kubrick’s adaptation [...] Read more:Lolita
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Movie Review: The Lord of the Rings (1978) 2007-11-02 17:27:43 J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
is an animated interpretation of J.R.R Tolkien’s epic fantasy adventure, The Lord of the Rings. However, this film condenses the first two books, The Fellowship of the Ring, and The Two Towers into one. The problem is that the trilogy was never completed. Ralph Bakshi decided to bring [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: North by Northwest 2007-11-01 17:50:51 North by Northwest
is yet another classic from… yes, the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. The man was a force to be reckoned with, not because of his portly stature, but because he found the balance between great entertainment and timeless cinema. His direction is his indelible signature that permeates the very celluloid. Each scene [...] Read more:Movie Review
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Movie Review: The School of Rock 2007-11-09 04:43:55 The School
of Rock is a collaboration between Richard Linklater (Director), Mike White (Writer) and the “ridonkulous” Jack Black. Linklater (Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise) directs this rock music tribute, and somehow manages to tame Jack Black. Mike White (The Good Girl, Orange County) writes one of his better scripts, and even makes a trademark [...] Read more:Movie Review
The Down Low: The Tarnished Compass 2007-11-08 07:41:52 The Golden Compass
is based on Phillip Pullman’s first novel in His Dark Materials trilogy, called Northern Lights. It won the Carnegie Medal for children’s fiction in 1995, and was selected by judges in 2007 as one of the most important children’s novels in the past 70 years. However, the author’s motives have been challenged [...]
Movie Review: The Guardian 2007-11-07 07:54:18 The Guardian
is from the pages of Ron L. Brinkerhoff (D-Tox), and the direction of Andrew Davis (The Fugitive). The US Coast Guard is where Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher find themselves, as seasoned veteran Ben Randall, and swim star Jake Fischer. Costner returns to the high seas once again, after Message In A Bottle [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2007-11-06 04:32:36 Talladega Nights: The Ballad
of RickyBobby
is a send up of NASCAR, a stock car racing spectacle, which is giving baseball a run for its money. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, the tag team that brought you Anchorman, are back, only twice as ugly. Their SNL backgrounds influenced the comedy of Anchorman, which became [...] Read more:Movie Review
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Movie Review: Mr. Woodcock 2007-11-05 16:18:57 Mr. Woodcock is brought to you by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), and fresh screenwriters: Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert. Mr. Woodcock is a comedy that never quits trying to crack a laugh. However, the best jokes are ruined by a comprehensive highlights trailer. The preview trailer had to be funny enough to [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: Three Amigos 2007-11-14 07:26:37 Three Amigos
is a classic Western comedy. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short play the title characters, and obviously had a great time making Three Amigos. They were all in their prime at the time of filming, and their crazy gags pokes fun at Hollywood. Joe Landis directs this comedy feature, three years after [...] Read more:Three
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Movie Review: Reno 911!: Miami 2007-11-13 07:23:02 Reno 911!: Miami
is a film starring, written and directed by Robert Ben Garant. The popular reality parody of COPS makes a jump to the big screen, and stretches 30 minutes into 84 minutes with a loose storyline set in Miami. The Comedy Central team make a valiant effort to get the skits, gags and [...] Read more:Movie Review
The Down Low: Arnie Isn’t Allergic to Kryptonite? 2007-11-12 09:58:13 Arnold Schwarzenegger has led an impressive life. So impressive that you sometimes wonder if he actually is human? He started body-building in his small town in Austria from a young age in search of a better life. His rippling muscles helped him nab recognition as the greatest Body-Builder and World Champion that ever lived, winning [...] Read more:Allergic
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Movie Review: Death at a Funeral 2007-11-10 17:06:37 Death at a Funeral
is Frank Oz in his finest hour. He sweeps The Stepford Wives behind him with a dark British comedy that is just hilarious. Death at a Funeral was shot in seven weeks, and blends American madcap comedy with a British sense of humour. Dean Craig writes an infectious script, and gets [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: All About Eve 2007-11-10 02:06:53 All About Eve is a film that won 6 Oscars at the 1951 Academy Awards. It’s also a film that reminds us why scripts and performances are so integral to movie-making. Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs All About Eve. The film followed his double Oscar sweep in the previous year with A Letter To [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: Sunset Boulevard 2007-11-18 07:40:05 Sunset Boulevard
is a Billy Wilder masterpiece. The film received mixed reviews at the time of its release, with many film critics siding with Hollywood. The upheaval was caused by its anti-Hollywood perspective, which stemmed from the film’s story, characters, themes and setting. Sunset Boulevard served as a bridge between the old Hollywood and the [...] Read more:Sunset
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Movie Review: The Apartment 2007-11-17 08:50:49 The Apartment is a film by the legendary Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Blvd.). The much-loved black and white film won 5 Oscars in its day including: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writing. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine were both nominated for Best Lead Actor and Actress, but lost [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: The Heartbreak Kid 2007-11-16 12:32:28 The Heartbreak
Kid marks the official demise of the Farrelly brothers phenomenon. Bobby and Peter Farrelly were revolutionary in the ’90s, with their comic mix of comedy, romance and friendship-inspired movies. Dumb & Dumber was met with mixed reviews, Kingpin brought the house down, There’s Something About Mary grossed everyone out, Me, Myself and Irene [...] Read more:Movie Review
The Down Low: “I’m too sexy for an Oscar.” 2007-11-15 09:26:45 Okay, no one said that, but it’s what everyone’s thinking after 2007’s TOP TEN SEXIEST MEN hot list was unveiled by People Magazine. It so happens that 50% of the Top Ten Sexiest Men Alive, have been nominated for Oscar
s, and not won. Matt Damon is the only Oscar winner from the list, but won [...] Read more:ldquo
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Movie Review: The Invisible 2007-11-15 03:58:29 The Invisible is a remake of Swedish film, Den Osynlige, which was loosely inspired by Mats Wahl’s novel of the same title. David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity) directs a slick, haunting production influenced by Japanese horror masters Hideo Nakata and Kôji Suzuki (Ringu, Dark Water). Justin Chatwin (The Chumscrubber), Margarita Levieva (Vanished) and Marcia Gay [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: Balls of Fury 2007-11-24 11:41:56 Balls of Fury is a film about ping pong. The sport gets a similar treatment to Dodgeball, and comes to screen courtesy of the same team that brought you Reno 911!: Miami. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, are the stars of the cult cop TV reality spoof, and put their heads (rather than their [...] Read more:Balls
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Movie Trailer: Hitman 2007-11-22 17:15:22 Hitman, the popular video game title, finally follows in the footsteps of Resident Evil, by getting a movie makeover. Timothy Olyphant (Die Hard 4) stars as Agent 47, who’s involvement in a political conspiracy has him trapped between Interpol and Russian military as he makes his hired gun crusade across Eastern Europe, under strict instructions [...] Read more:Trailer
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Movie Clip: As It Is In Heaven - Gabriella’s Song 2007-11-22 09:15:34 As It Is In Heaven
is a powerful Swedish film about a conductor’s renaissance in his childhood village. The film was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film, and has been a firm favourite with South African movie goers since its release, several months ago. Music plays an important part in As It Is [...]
Movie Review: Click 2007-11-22 06:07:09 Click is yet another successful Adam Sandler/Frank Coraci collaboration. The two shared a fantastic year of movie-making in 1998 with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy. Now they team up for Click with Bruce Almighty writers Steve Koren and Mark O’Keefe. This comedy fantasy is unlike most Happy Madison productions, and actually taps into something [...] Read more:Movie Review
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Movie Review: Last Days 2007-11-21 08:39:44 Last Days is a Gus Van Sant film. Van Sant made a name for himself in cinema with movies like To Die For, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Elephant and his Oscar-nominated Good Will Hunting. However, his successful career is marred by the poor remake of Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1998. The eccentric film-director has [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: Wordplay 2007-11-20 16:18:14 Wordplay is a documentary film by Patrick Creadon in his directorial début. He joined forces with Christine O’Malley to write Wordplay, and the two are set to team up again in the near future. Wordplay is a tribute to the New York Times crossword, and Will Shortz, who is the mastermind behind the crossword and [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Review: The Last Kiss 2007-11-19 15:59:08 The Last Kiss is a film by actor-director Tony Goldwyn (Someone Like You…). The Last Kiss is based on Gabrielle Muccino’s Italian film L’ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss), but the screenplay was written by Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby). The cast includes Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Tom Wilkinson, Blythe Danner, Casey Affleck and Harold [...] Read more:Movie Review
Movie Trailer: AVP 2: Requiem 2007-11-29 08:06:08 Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
is set for a Christmas release in the U.S. The classic showdown takes place in a small town, where the population have to band together to stand any chance of survival. Visual effects specialists, Colin and Greg Strause, take the reins on direction for Alien versus Predator 2, and this spin-off [...] Read more:Trailer
Movie Trailer: War - Jet vs. Jason 2007-11-28 18:18:38 In a dark underworld ruled by fear, a truce has protected their way of life, until a lone assassin started a war. Now a renegade FBI agent will stop at nothing to get revenge. Jet Li and Jason
Statham are back.
Guns, blades, blood and fury… it’s WAR. Jason Statham (The Transporter) and Jet Li (The [...] Read more:Trailer
Movie Review: Lions for Lambs 2007-11-28 06:50:20 Lions for Lambs is a Robert Redford film. The film sells and prides itself on three big names in Hollywood: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Lions for Lambs can be crudely described as a film made by Americans for Americans. This statement does hold a fair deal of truth, as Lions for Lambs [...] Read more:Lions
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Movie Clip: Wayne’s World - Bohemian Rhapsody 2007-11-27 06:18:10 Wayne’s World
is everything that was cool about the early ’90s. The Revenge of the Nerds paved the way for a nerd renaissance in the late ’80s. Then came Saturday Night Live characters Wayne and Garth, broadcasting the greatest cable show on earth from their basement. They were so big that they had to make [...] Read more:Wayne
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