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• Essex Boys

  Published: July 14, 2007, 11:14 pm

  Tags: Crime, Drama, Recommended, Reviews

  BBC America had this 2000 mobster flick on their Brit Movie night last Sunday. It’s got Sean Bean, Alex Kingston and Tom Wilkerson in what I saw posited as an English Goodfellas, and I loves me my Goodfellas. In the end Essex Boys was okay but not great; the comparison to that great Scorsese flick is a stretch in several dimensions. Bean is

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• The Astronaut’s Wife

  Published: July 14, 2007, 9:21 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Not Recommended, Reviews

  Going against my previous thinking that this 1999 Johnny Depp/Charlize Theron movie wasn’t worth watching, I gave it a spin yesterday. Sadly, I should have stuck with my original thought because writer/director Rand Ravich clearly did a better job pitching this scifi-ish thriller to the studio suits than he did in getting the film in the

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• Rope

  Published: July 14, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: Thriller, Drama, Recommended, Reviews

  A 1948 classic psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock starring Bill favorite James Stewart along with John Dall and a young Farley Granger, Rope is a take on the sensational 1924 murder case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Hitchcock does something rarely seen these days, staging the entire film inside a single, modest-sized space,

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• The Illusionist

  Published: July 7, 2007, 9:11 pm

  Tags: History, Fantasy, Drama, Recommended, Reviews

  Last fall two seemingly similar movies came out around the same time and this fine film was overshadowed by the other, The Prestige, but since I haven’t seen that one yet I won’t opine on whether the reaction was justified. Certainly The Illusionist is a good, enjoyable entertainment, a creative success for writer/director Neil Burger

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• PUMP UP THE VOLUME Review

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:23 pm

  Tags: Drama

  PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990) By day new-in-town Mark is a reclusive high school student with no friends and even less social skills. But by night, hidden behind a microphone on his pirate radio station he runs out of his bedroom, Mark becomes Hard Harry, a voice for the town's angst-filled youth. His take-no-prisoners attitude stirs up his fellow

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• MEMORIES OF MURDER Review

  Published: July 17, 2007, 10:36 pm

  Tags: Mystery, Crime, Korea, Drama

  MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) It is 1986, in South Korea. In a small village, a young woman is found raped and brutally murdered. The local police force is completely caught off guard, and have no idea how to handle the situation. Then another body is found, and they realize they are dealing with a serial killer, which they are completely

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• LUSTRE Review for Cujou.com

  Published: July 15, 2007, 12:45 am

  Tags: Religion, Drama

  Cujou.com is a new online magazine where I'll sporadically be reviewing more artsy and indie-natured films. Stay tuned for my look at FLOURISH and A SCANNER DARKLY. For now my debut exclusive review and a few reposts are currently available.LUSTRE (2005) After forty years of being a loan shark and collecting gambling debts, Hugo (Victor Argo) has

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• JOINT SECURITY AREA Review

  Published: July 12, 2007, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Korea, Drama, Gunplay

  JOINT SECURITY AREA (2000) Three days after a firefight that leaves two soldiers dead in the De-Militarized Zone that separates North Korea and South Korea, Sgt. Jean, a Korean who grew up in Switzerland and is now part of the Neutral Nations Security Council is sent to investigate and hopefully clear up a potentially devastating event. Within

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• HARD CANDY Review

  Published: July 12, 2007, 9:11 pm

  Tags: Drama, Revenge

  HARD CANDY (2005)Hard Candy - internet slang for an underage girl who is particularly attractive and gullible.14-year-old Haley and 32-year old photographer Jeff have been chatting on the internet for three weeks. During their latest digital flirting, they finally decide to meet at a local coffee shop. During the brief meeting, the two continue

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• New Wall-E Photo

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Images, Disney Pixar, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Drama, Animation, Wall E

  USA Today published a new photo of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E (Trailer, Photos). The year is 2700. WALL E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award -winning director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL E is the story of one robot's comic adventures as he

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• Southland Tales Release Date Announced, Movie Trailer in Mid-August

  Published: July 24, 2007, 7:14 pm

  Tags: Sci Fi Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Sony, Drama, Comedy, Movie Trailers, Release Dates, Action Adventure, Poster, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales

  Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly will be at Comic Con on Friday. Today the official release date for Southland Tales was announced. The film will hit theaters on November 9th 2007. “I will be down at Comic-Con to sign copies of the new Southland Tales teaser poster,” Kelly wrote on his MySpace Blog. Kelly also reveals that the

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• The Pursuit of Happyness

  Published: July 6, 2007, 9:13 pm

  Tags: 2006, Year, Family, Dvd, Drama, Movies

  Synopsis: Chris Gardner (Will Smith) has had a string of bad luck. He sunk his life savings into a medical supply company that isn’t selling. His wife, Linda (Thandie Newton) resents him, and he can barely provide for his son (Smith’s real-life son Jaden), the center of his life. Things go from bad to worse when [...]

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• Stranger Than Fiction

  Published: November 30, 2006, 11:52 pm

  Tags: Year, 2006, Comedy, Drama, Movies

  Overall Rating: *** Stanger Than Fiction @ IMDB Synopsis: A tax auditor named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) lives a monotonous life full of calculated and precise actions. Things go horrible awry when he starts hearing his life narrated by a woman’s voice as he lives it. He soon discovers that the voice blongs to Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson),

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• Casino Royale

  Published: November 20, 2006, 11:42 pm

  Tags: Year, 2006, Action, Drama, Movies

  Overall Rating: ***** Casino Royale @ IMDB Summary: When James Bond (Daniel Craig) is promoted to 007, he must prove himself against a terrorist financier (Mads Mikkelsen) and learn that in the spy business, you really can trust anyone. Review: Plot: The plot for this movie was pretty well put together. I liked the flow a lot, though it started

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• Lohan Family Circus

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan Family Drama Michael Lohan Dina Lohan Ali Lohan Celeb Gossip Lindsay Lohan Gossip Lindsay Lohan Jill Stuart Lindsay Lohan Rehab Lindsay Lohan Arrest

  While Lindsay Lohan struggles to get her act together, her father Michael has made an effort to restore civility with her mother Dina.  Where there was once malice, he hopes to create peace. Apparently, in the ugly legal battle between Michael and Dina Lohan, Michael made some serious allegations against LiLo’s mom.  He

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