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Once More, With Feeling

Monday, July 16th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘OCEAN’S 13’ Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien Directed by Steven Soderberghr Rated PG-13 122 mins. Watching Ocean’s 13 and following along requires having seen the prequels, which is too bad, because it would have been a better film if didn’t require such foreknowledge. In Ocean’s 11, the audience was as much […]

Paranoia Is In The Eye of The Beholder

Friday, July 13th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘JOSHUA’ Written by David Gilbert and George Ratliff Directed by George Ratliff Rated R 105 mins. The sound of a baby crying is one of the most disturbing sounds anyone can experience. It goes right to the core of your being, and while it’s not terrifying, or particularly scary, it nevertheless sets you […]

Truth Blinds; Imagination Enhances

Monday, July 9th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA’ Written by Jeff Stockwell and David Paterson, based on the novel by Katherine Paterson Directed by Gabor Csupo Rated PG 95 mins. Bridge to Terabithia is based on a children’s novel of the same name, written in 1977, or based on a made-for-TV adaption from 1985. Take your pick, doesn’t […]

Red Hot Chili Opressors

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE MISTRESS OF SPICES’ Written by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges Directed by Paul Mayeda Berges Rated PG-13 92mins. 1 star Tilo (Aishwarya Rai) was born with some kind of second sight, and here parents were murdered for it so she could be used by bandits to find treasure. But she escaped, […]

Rough in the Diamonds

Friday, July 6th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘BLOOD DIAMOND’ Written by Charles Leavitt Directed by Edward Zwick Rated R 143 mins. 3½ stars I haven’t seen Apocalypse Now, so it might be a bit silly to compare Blood Diamond to Coppola’s Vietnam-War Epic. But Apocalypse was such a huge movie, it is undeniably part of our pop-consciousness, and I have […]

Be Sure Sin Will Find You Out

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE NUMBER 23’ Written by Fernley Phillips Directed by Joel Schumacher Rated R 98 mins. Plenty of films have been made based on comics and graphic novels, so it makes sense that the graphic novel aesthetic has begun to bleed into films that don’t take such materials as their source. Watching The Number […]

Misfiring Line

Friday, June 29th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘IN THE LINE OF FIRE’ Written by Jeff Maguire Directed by Wolfgang Peterse Rated R 128 mins. I made the mistake of seeing Clint Eastwood’s In the Line of Fire (1993), well after I saw Blood Work (2002). So I found myself continually comparing the former to the latter, when it should have […]

A Spy in the Ointment

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘BREACH’ Written by Adam Mazer and William Rotko Directed by Billy Ray Rated PG-13 110 mins. 2 stars Breach begins with a news reel from 2001, then Attorney General John Ashcroft speaking to the recent arrest of Robert Hanssen, America’s worst spy. Then we see a “two months” earlier blurb, and we meet […]

The Last of the Mohicans Meets The Running Man

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘APOCALYPTO’ Written by Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia Directed by Mel Gibson Rated R 139 mins. 3 stars I’m half tempted to tell you the ending of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, but I really don’t have to, since you will probably figure it out for yourself. Mel provides the tried-and-true ancient civilization clichés, (complete […]

I’m A Loser, Baby

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘EAGLE VS SHARK’ Written and directed by Taika Cohen Rated R 93 mins. /> One of the songs in Eagle vs Shark asks us to compare apples and tangerines,(more poetic than oranges) as likely a pair as an eagle and a shark. But the only real difference between Lily and Jerrod is that […]

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