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28 Days Later, 2002 2008-03-08 12:21:36 The duo which brought us The Beach in 2000 now brings to theaters a zombie movie that will ultimately change the genre from one predominated by B-movies to one where humanity is examined after society has been removed to help us learn more about how essential socialization is to humanity. If that sounds like something [...]
Moulin Rouge!, 2001 2008-03-06 15:28:47 The third and final installment of Baz Luhrmann’s “Red Curtain” trilogy is the first musical in recent memory to capture public notice. Moulin
Rouge is the story of a young writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor) trying to get a break in 1899 Paris. The focus of the Bohemian community in which he resides, is a [...] Read more:Moulin Rouge
Phone Booth, 2002 2008-03-04 15:08:32 Phone Booth
is a better-than-average psychological thriller, pitting the voice of “The Caller”, wonderfully played by Kiefer Sutherland, against the life of Stu Shepard, played by Colin Farrell. Shephard is an almost stereotypically flamboyant publicist living in New York with his estranged wife, Kelly, percolating a potentially adulterous relationship with a young actress played by [...]
The Butterfly Effect, 2004 2008-03-02 14:00:00 The Butterfly
Effect is the must-see directorial debut from directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, who worked previously together as a screenwriting team for Final Destination 2. Ashton Kutcher, made famous by his role on That 70s Show, stars in this film as Evan Treborn, a man who periodically blacks out due to a [...]
From Elsewhere… Greatest Horror Weapons 2008-02-29 12:25:02 #3: Cotton Candy Gun
From: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Used by: The Killer Klowns
Easily one of the most inventive guns ever to be featured in a movie, horror or otherwise, is the cotton candy guns wielded by the grotesque alien Klowns of Killer Klowns from Outer Space. When fired, the guns discharge a beam of electricity [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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Gone Baby Gone, 2007 2008-02-28 22:22:43 Ben Affleck’s first time behind the camera as a director comes in this adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane in a screenplay he also wrote brings with it immense critical praise which is well-deserved. Casey Affleck plays Patrick Kenzie, a private detective familiar with the streets and neighborhoods of Boston, living with his [...]
Layer Cake, 2004 2008-02-26 15:04:20 In Layer
Cake, which is based upon a British novel of the same name, we get a rare peak into the British criminal underground through the eyes of a very successful cocaine trafficker who is never named, but is played by Daniel Craig. He is well-educated, smart, respectful, and not greedy. Having accumulated enough of [...]
The Machinist, 2004 2008-02-24 14:33:57 Christian Bale’s performance as Travor Reznik in The Machinist may rank as one of his best ever. He plays an industrial machinist plagued by chronic insomnia and a mysterious weight-loss that is bringing him down to levels that make him appear like someone from Ethiopia during its infamous famine. He is, essentially, dying of insomnia [...]
Lake Placid, 1999 2008-02-22 12:22:03 1999’s Lake Placid was an unusual movie from its beginnings. It’s a star-studded black comedy about a giant crocodile terrorizing a small lake community in Maine featuring a flamboyant, wealthy professor with a passion for crocodiles in Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a common-sense, polite and gentlemanly local sheriff named Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Jack Wells [...]
The Kingdom, 2007 2008-02-19 21:12:07 The Kingdom
is a 2007 blockbuster that accomplishes something many mainstream Hollywood movies attempt and fail: it creates a realistic thriller based on realistic events and portrays both sides of the conflict in reasonably equal lights. Director Peter Berg tells us the story of a team of FBI agents who push their way into [...]
10 Guy Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen | Just A Guy Thing 2008-03-12 20:51:59 We’ve received a great deal of criticism for our 100 Great Movies Every Guy MUST See article due to the generic action flicks and repetitive Hollywood story lines. In the interests of promoting lesser known movies, we’ve rented, downloaded or borrowed hundreds of guy movies you may not have heard of before. We’ve watched them, [...] Read more:Probably
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Cloverfield, 2008 2008-03-12 12:52:00 Matt Reeves’s much marketed 2008 action/horror/thriller Cloverfield lives up to its hype. It takes the point-of-view camera technique utilized in The Blair Witch Project and brings it to new extremes as it ekes out a truly creepy and unsettling looking at an attack on Manhattan by what can only be described as a monster.
A small [...]
Along Came Polly, 2004 2008-03-10 13:32:48 Along Came Polly
is the most recent film in Hollywood’s long tradition of cookie-cutter plots. Reuben Feffer, portrayed by Ben Stiller in a rather mediocre performance, lives a comfortable, if cautious life where his professional efforts are so focused on the prevention of any type of risky behavior that he lives a very quiet and [...]
From Elsewhere… Suspense Movies You Must See 2008-03-13 15:53:39 These films, for the most part, aren’t at all obscure—some of them are downright classics, and many of you may have seen some of them. But they aren’t the films that leap immediately to mind when the average person walks into the video store and heads for the “Suspense
” section.
Still, there’s some true gems here [...] Read more:Elsewhere
Movies Opening March 28, 2008 2008-03-17 08:25:49 1. 21
Directed by Robert Luketic who is famed for a variety of recently released terrible comedies, 21 is based on the true story of a group of MIT students who formed a group that, via mathematics and advanced card counting methods, was able to successfully beat the odds at blackjack in casinos and in doing [...] Read more:March
The Brave One, 2007 2008-03-16 12:58:05 Jodie Foster brings a woman living in New York City as a radio personality named Erica Bain with a deeply loved fiance who is brutally attacked in Central Park and almost destroyed as a result of it emotionally in this 2007 Neil Jordan movie.
Traumatized by the crime, by the lackadaisical and overworked NYPD and New [...] Read more:Brave
From Elsewhere… Top 10 Doomsday Scenarios 2008-03-16 12:38:34 Everyone has wondered what it would be like if the world came to an end. How would it happen? Would it be our fault? Would the rest of the universe even notice? Will it be on YouTube?
It’s a story and an epic struggle that’s been foretold and examined in everything from classic literature to modern [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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From Elsewhere… New ‘Heavy Metal’ Film 2008-03-15 12:37:24 I did not see this coming, but Paramount Pictures is making an animated film based on HeavyMetal
, the 1970s sci-fi/fantasy magazine that spawned the 1981 cult classic film Heavy Metal
and a mediocre sequel in 2000, Heavy Metal 2000.
Apparently David Fincher is going to be directing the latest remake of Heavy Metal
read more [...] Read more:Elsewhere
Elf, 2003 2008-03-18 13:45:16 Elf is a wholesome holiday comedy that tells us the story of a human raised by elves at the North Pole. Buddy, skillfully played by Will Ferrell, is mistakenly brought back to the workshop after crawling into Santa’s toy bag. He is adopted by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) and raised like an elf until he [...]
Top 10 Historically Inaccurate Movies 2008-03-21 19:55:40 Gladiator Emperor Commodus was not the sniveling sister-obsessed creep portrayed in the movie. A violent alcoholic, sure, but not so whiny. He ruled ably for over a decade rather than ineptly for a couple months. He also didn’t kill his father, Marcus Aurelius, who actually died of chickenpox. And instead [...]
Site Updates and News 2008-03-21 15:28:00 Okay, just a short note. My apologies for the recent sparseness of my postings; I’ve been putting a lot of energy into getting my other two websites NathanThoms.com and MachiavelliMeetsMayorQuimby.com into action, debugging problems here, and in general trying to improve function and look.
If you have suggestions, send then using the contact form. Darren Aronofsky [...] Read more:Site Updates
The Incredibles, 2004 2008-03-20 13:28:28 The Incredibles was an amazing family-friendly action-adventure comedy that still managed to stuff in some adventure and action here and there. It can truly be something that entertains the entire family and not something that is simply child-friendly and adult-tolerable.
The voice cast is first-class, including Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, [...]
1408, 2007 2008-03-22 14:36:58 John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this 2007 adaption of a Stephen King short story, directed by Mikael Håfström (Derailed, 2005) surrounding the mysteries of a haunted hotel room in New York City.
Cusack plays a disillusioned, down-trodden, depressed writer named Mike Enslin of “Top 10…” books which relate to supposedly haunted locals and [...]
Top 10 Awesome Film Deaths 2008-03-22 07:48:15 2. Carter Wong – Big Trouble in Little China
Method of death: Spontaneous combustion.
Factor to consider: Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t control your own actions? If so, multiply that by 1,000 to get an idea of how upset Carter Wong was in Big Trouble in Little China.
After his boss is killed by [...]
From Elsewhere… Greatest Number of Swears 2008-03-24 15:13:30 Summer of Sam
This New York serial-killer flick from Spike Lee is a furious foul-mouthed frenzy of expletives with a tally of “about 400 f-words” and a few homosexual and racial insults.
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The Big Lebowski
After brazenly missing this movie off our 100 Movies Every Guy Must See list, we’re happy to finally include the Coen brothers [...] Read more:Elsewhere
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Crank, 2006 2008-03-24 14:08:25 With their premiere film writer/director team Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine gives us a pulse-pounding adrenaline-fueled action thriller starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart that starts with a rush and doesn’t stop that rush until the credits roll in Crank
.
Statham plays Chev Chelios, a hitman for a local organized crime gang, who awakens to [...]
From Elsewhere… Top 50 Dystopian Movies 2008-03-28 10:48:38 Strange Days (1995)
Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the eve of the new millennium, Lenny and his street-savvy friend and conscience, Mace, are suddenly caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal–plunging them into the bleak [...] Read more:Elsewhere
A Simple Plan, 1998 2008-03-28 10:34:17 The story begins as simply as the title, A Simple
Plan, would imply: two brothers, Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Billy Bob Thornton), along with Jacob’s best friend Lou Chambers (Brent Briscoe) find a crashed plane in the woods and inside a large sum of money in cash. Lou and Jacob are both [...] Read more:Simple Plan
Great Directors: Darren Aronofsky 2008-03-26 10:08:36 Fourth in my ongoing GreatDirectors
series is Darren
Aronofsky, best known for Pi, and Requiem for a Dream. He was born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, NY, and has always had a love for movies. He attended Harvard University and his thesis film Supermarket Sweep is included on the list below as [...]
Six Degrees of Separation, 1993 2008-03-30 18:15:49 “Chaos; control; chaos; control; You like? You Like?” states Stockard Channing while portraying Ouisa Kittredge and having her husband Flan Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) flip a double-sided painting by Wassily Kandinsky with the styles on each side being either chaotic or controlled in Six Degrees
of Separation
. Adapted from the play of the same name by [...] Read more:Six Degrees
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