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Nacho Libre Review 2007-10-15 04:09:52 No Snobbies Awarded
By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Ignacio (Jack Black) is an orphan who dream of being the great wrestler Nacho
. When he grows up and becomes the omega dog of the order who runs the orphanage, he escapes from a life of drudgery by trying to make his dream come true. He dons a mask and [...]
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Whisper of the Heart review 2007-10-14 07:39:51 By Galina
Whisper
of the Heart
(1995), animated coming-of-age story was scripted and storyboarded by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by the Yoshifumi Kondo. Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki’s Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke) saw in Kondo his successor as Studio [...]
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The 13th Warrior review 2007-10-14 07:11:10 By Eugenio “Dekkers” Nemina
Dark, violent and often with an impersonal feel to it, this is something of an acquired taste. For a person who doesn’t mind a little Hollywood cheese with his cinema, there’s an enjoyable experience to be had as ‘The Eaters of The Dead’ (authored by Michael [...]
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Buy A Ticket, Take The Ride Review 2007-10-14 04:18:15 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
In honor of Hunter S. Thompson, lets begin this as a gonzo piece, largely about myself.
My first exposure to Hunter S. Thompson was the 1980 Bill Murray cult film Where The Buffalo Roam. As I was 7 years old it goes without saying that I [...]
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28 Weeks Later Review 2007-10-12 05:28:52 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
28 Weeks
Later than the events in 28 Weeks Later, the rage-zombie infestation has mostly been beaten. The zombies, who of course, in this time line of terror are really just people with some kind of virus with properties somewhere between rabies and ebola, [...]
Casino Royale Review 2007-10-11 05:49:58 By Mike “Cachibatches” Dononue
Allow me to admit that I have never been a James Bond fan. I first became a junior movie snob in the campy, Roger Moore, MOONRAKER era, and by the time I got around to watching the Sean Connery classics, they were, and lets be blunt [...]
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Pursuit of Happyness Review 2007-10-10 05:28:22 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS is a true-ish story about a homeless father, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) who defied the odds and became a successful stock broker. We follow him as an investment and his self employment fail, his marriage disintegrates, he picks up [...]
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The Number 23 review 2007-10-09 04:07:13 No snobbies awarded
By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) is a dog catcher who is bitten by a dog that is the guardian of the dead (I am serious). His wife (Virginia Madsen) gives him a novel that in many ways mirrors his own life - like the main character is a detective, and he [...]
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The Da Vinci Code Review 2007-10-07 21:54:18 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is a professor who uses his knowledge of symbols and how they change over time to solve the murder of man who kept the secret fact that Jesus Christ was actually the father of European Royalty - a fact that an ancient branch of the Catholic [...]
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Blood Diamond Review 2007-10-06 05:33:08 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Solomon Vandy’s (Djimon Hounsou) village is raided by RFU rebels during the Sierra Leon revolution. The rebels are about to amputate his hand, but instead put him to work as slave labor, digging for diamonds to fund their war. Solomon find a huge diamond with a [...]
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) review 2007-10-19 05:22:05 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
“Its not as bad as I thought it would be.”
George Romero is alleged to have said this regarding the “remake” of his seminal horror classic DAWN OF THE DEAD. It more or less sums up my feelings. Taken on its own, this is fun little zombie [...]
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) Review 2007-10-19 04:45:07 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
It took the genius of George Romero to film a zombie flick centered around a shopping mall.
Four survivors from the largely unexplained zombie infestation of NIGHT OF THE LIVING dead take refuge in a Pittsburgh shopping mall, only to have to defend [...]
The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) 2007-10-16 12:28:53 By Jeremy Ebert
At the heart of Akira Kurosawa’s Shichinin no samurai, is the question of how can there be harmony between the samurai and the ordinary peasant. In the one of many now famous and memorable scene’s that The Seven
Samurai has to offer, an [...]
Borat Review 2007-10-16 04:16:43 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Anyone else remember Yacob Smirnoff? In the 1980’s, with the threat of nuclear annihilation looming over all of our heads, Smirnoff pushed the comic shtick of claiming to be from Russia. In carefully orchestrated imperfect English punctuated by an a thick pseudo-Slavic accent, he would say [...]
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Alpha Dog Review 2007-10-24 05:38:11 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) is a true ALPHA DOG drug dealer. Supplied by his connected father Sonny (Bruce Willis), he lives a lifestyle that any MTV Hip Hopper would be jealous of. He’s got the cars, the woman, the booze and drugs, and he leads a gang [...]
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Hollywoodland Review 2007-10-23 05:08:41 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
HOLLYWOOD LAND is a place where every nobody is scheming to become somebody, and every somebody is scamming to keep there spot. It is a place where everyone is a patron or a client, and where everything is done under the sun, including murder. HOLLYWOODLAND [...]
Excorcist: The Beginning Review 2007-10-22 19:06:17 By Luke Schnepe
I had such high hopes for this movie, but in this day and age of lowbrow theatrics I should have known better. Honestly it had a lot of potential and it is better than most movies released these days, but in my opinion it just fell short of that high [...]
Away From Her Review 2007-10-27 03:58:59 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Duke (Gorden Pinset) has been married to a woman of remarkable grace and intelligence for 44 years. And though she struggles to maintain that grace, Fiona (Julie Christie) knows that Alzheimer’s is taking her intelligence piece by piece. “Its like I’m disappearing,” she states, almost [...]
The Notebook Review 2007-10-26 05:26:25 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
It seems like a simple, cliched story. A rich girl (Rachel McAdams) meets a poor boy (Noah Calhoun), and they develop a love that is innocent, but pure and genuine. The are honest with each other, and each learns from the other. Her parents do [...]
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The Vampire Bat Review 2007-10-25 18:35:54 By Luke Schnepe
This movie was a little gem of delight to watch. This movie had almost everything I enjoyed… minus the vampires. Bummer! But it had the town local crazy guy who just had an affinity for bats: totally normal personality trait for that day and age!
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The Hitcher (1986) Review 2007-10-25 06:03:40 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
“ My mother told me never to do this.” With those words Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) invites a great evil into his car, and into his life. On a desolate desert highway, as the rain pours, John Ryder, THE HITCHER (Rutger Hauer), reveals himself [...]
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The Hitcher (2007) Review 2007-10-25 05:18:34 No snobbies awarded
By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Jim Halsey and Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton), a couple on a road trip, pick up a psychopathic killer (Sean Bean) with near supernatural abilities named John Ryder, who first tries to murder them, and then tries to frame them for his crimes. All sorts of murder and explosions [...]
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The Last King Of Scotland Review 2007-11-02 04:10:22 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
I speak movie jargon. For example, the caption “inspired by true events” translates literally as “parenthetically related to true events, but altered in such a way that real meaning is lost.” THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND begins with such a caption. Keep in mind this literal translation [...]
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Dan in Real Life 2007-10-31 06:58:58 By Jeremy Ebert
By pairing Juliette Binoche and Steve Carrell, the uninformed viewer might be willing to expect a surprise. It’s happened before, when two actors from disperate backgrounds meet, an odd fascination and chemistry can exist. Binoche is a European star and has established herself as one of the finest actors [...]
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A Mighty Heart Review 2007-10-30 05:47:23 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
I did something in preparing for writing this review that I never do in preparing to review a movie- I read some other opinions first. Not critiques from professional critics, most of whom were enamored with this incredibly factually accurate account of the kidnaping of Wall Street [...]
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The Reaping Review 2007-11-05 03:59:00 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Professor Katherine Winter (Hillary Swank) is a former missionary who lost her faith in god and subsequently dedicated her life to debunking miracles when her family were sacrificed in the Sudan. She is called to a Bible belt town to investigate a series of events mirroring the ten Biblical plagues. [...]
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Perfect Stranger Review 2007-11-04 02:49:36 No Snobbies Awarded
By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
PERFECT STRANGER features the worst twist ending since Edgar Allen Poe put a razor in a monkey’s hand. This could really stand as the full content of the review, but as I went through the torment of watching the movie, I might as well have my catharsis.
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Haute Tension (High Tension) Review 2007-11-03 05:58:20 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Marie is a closet lesbian who longs for her platonic friend Alexia. A visit to the French countryside brings a run in with a psychopath who kidnaps Alexia after dispatching her family. Can Marie save her lady love? And why does the whole scenario mirror a [...]
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American Gangster review 2007-11-03 05:35:52 By Jeremy Ebert
AmericanGangster
is a paradox. Loads of hype, big stars and a major studio backing a film that’s legitimately worth the hype. Most of the time, even without the hype, major Hollywood efforts are underwhelming. Why make a decent effort to produce [...]
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The Descent Review 2007-11-09 06:31:21 By Mike “Cachibatches” Donohue
Sarah (Shauna MacDonald) goes spelunking with a group of friends in an uncharted cave the Appalachian mountains. Her best friend Juno (Natalie Jackson Mendoza) envisions it as a very special trip, a kind of catharsis from the despondency that has afflicted Sarah since her husband and [...]
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