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Not the Song by Orbital

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

FILM REVIEW: ‘The Box’ Written and Directed by Richard Kelly Based on the short story by Richard Matheson Rated PG-13 115 mins. I love my wife for lots of reasons, and even if we weren’t married, we’d be good friends for lots of those reasons. One is how she’s get obsessed with something. I don’t […]

A House By Any Other Name…

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

A Guy Ritchie film with Iron Man playing House.

A Kinder, Gentler Genghis

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘MONGOL’ Written by Arif Aliyev and Sergei Bodrov Directed by Sergei Bodrov Rated R 126 mins. Mongol is the story of Genghis Khan before he was khan, when he was still called Temudjin. Those who are well-read in the history of Genghis may notice discrepancies or liberties taken with the telling of this […]

Of Tea and Spices, Water and Fire

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘BEFORE THE RAINS’ Written by Cathy Rabin Directed by Santosh Sivan Rated PG-13 98 mins. In the jungles of southern India, an English spacer trader building a road falls in love with one of his household servants. She is married to an austere man from the nearby village, doubling the taboo inherent in […]

Not Just a Trashy Novel

Monday, June 16th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘ROMAN DE GARE’ Written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven Directed by Claude Lelouch Rated R 103 mins. Roman de Gare, a new film from Claude Lelouch, takes a mixture of complicated plot elements and expertly weaves them around and into one another, so that at any time, the audience can’t be sure […]

Give Me Your Tired, Yearning to Breathe Free

Monday, May 19th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE VISITOR’ Written and Directed by Thomas McCarthy Rated PG-13 108 mins. Walter is a middle aged, middle-class widower, a professor of economics at a college in Connecticut. The only thing interesting about him is that he wants to play the piano. He enjoys classical music and a glass of wine. He is […]

Money for Nothing

Monday, March 24th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE COUNTERFEITERS’ Written by Stefan Ruzowitzky, based on the book by Adolf Burger. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky Rated R 98 mins. Opening shot: the sea, symbol of fortune and destiny. A man sits on the beach, contemplating his past… or his present. Each shapes the other: the past leads us to our present, […]

One Way Or Another, Heads Will Spin. Or Explode. Or Both.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘SAW III’ Written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman Rated R 113 mins. I’ve never written a review for this kind of movie before, so let’s see what happens. What’s the appeal of the Saw films? (I hesitate to call them films, but this is a review environment, […]

Even The Title is Hilarious

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘BLADES OF GLORY’ Written by Jeff Cox and Craig Cox Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck Rated PG-13 93 mins. Will Ferrell has hit on a formula: take a goofy profession, one with plenty of esoteric elements, add in a goofy guy, and support him with other goofy guys, and a few […]

All Eyes On Me

Monday, March 10th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘VANTAGE POINT’ Written by Barry Levy Directed by Pete Travis Rated PG-13 90 mins. How would you make a movie about a period of time that lasts only 25 minutes? You could stretch it out, get all Tom Clancy on the plot and go back to the dark ages if you wanted, setting […]

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