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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come. For full review and more click here for full review

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Bella (Kristen Stewart), at long last, leaps off the sidelines and gets to be a vampire, demonstrating some of that mega-bloodpower every other Paleface Redeye just throws around like it's no big deal. All prior (and completely justified) feminist mortification regarding this young woman's agency and self-direction can now be laid to rest. When she pulls Edward (Robert Pattinson) toward her in the opening moments and nearly shatters his sternum, then wipes the floor with walking MET-Rx bar Emmett (Kellen Lutz) in a friendly arm-wrestling match before punching a giant boulder and turning it into gravel, you realize that she is now Wreck-It Ralph. This is extremely satisfying. click here for full review

Killing Them Softly

That buzzing sound you hear in the background, the one that takes up nearly every available second of soundtrack that isn't already populated by the wisecracks of this or that gun-packing scofflaw, is the sound of 2008's financial meltdown. Wall Street types and George W. Bush and news reports and the Obama campaign all weigh in on endless TV reports about the sinking of the American economy as an underworld operetta about crime and punishment plays out amidst point-of-impact violence (none of these guys chill with repeats of Friends in between killings or shaking down people for protection cash; they're all very concerned with the news cycle). And that clanking noise accompanying the buzzing sound is the film hitting you over the head with its heavy message again and again and again. Here it is: the government and the financial sector is a brutal business full of criminals just like the mob and the mob has turned corporate and we're all doomed and you're all on your own and you might as well let James Gandolfini shoot you in the face.click here for full review

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

  • Starring: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell
  • Summary: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.


 

Thursday, April 7, 2011

White Irish drinkers

Screenwriter and Director John Gray hollow in its own context to create the ardent and atmospheric white Irish drinkers, a semi-autobiographical look at two brothers grow up in the section of the crest of the Bay of Brooklyn, in 1975. Gray, known for the CBS Ghost Whisperer series, avoids any trace of the supernatural here. The fence, intimacy good of this film is so real that it bites.
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Nick Thurston nails every nuance as Brian Leary, 18, a wannabe artist who has to stealthily to paint in a neighbourhood of slapping claims away. Gray identifies deeply with Brian, not as a painter but as a boy who dreamed of being a filmmaker. The swaggering elder brother Danny (the excellent Geoff Wigdor) of Brian is a scammer of petit-rime which found acceptance more easily among his peers, laddie-boys who are proud to circumvent the stage of the drug for hard partying as white Irish drinkers.
What unites the brothers is a relationship of love/hate shared with their father longshoreman Paddy (a superb Stephen Lang), a boozehound with a penchant for spanking on Danny and his own too forgiving wife Margaret (Karen Allen, his eyes expressive is a mirror in emotional pain holder Margaret inside).
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The performances are uniformly terrific, find the specific details that create a universal truth. Something hidden in the past of the Paddy allows Brian to escape his father punched. The result for Brian is survivor guilt. He finds sexual comfort with Shauna (Leslie Murphy), a travel agent who shares his dreams of circumvention of Brooklyn. And he latches on a substitution in Whitey father (a splendid Peter Riegert), who hires Brian to work on his movie theatre. Plot that pivots on a scheme of Whitey jackpot to call for a favour and have the Rolling Stones room at his theatre during one hour before take a concert at Madison Square Garden.
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Gray builds tension as gears Whitey for his big night and Danny gives steal the box office.  But the soul of the film lies in the legacy of violence and the dynamics that can connect to a family or overwrite. Gray, white Irish drinkers is one of the battered heart.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Winner winner

Director Tom McCarthy is a kind of Wizard. In his hands, take simple stories (The Station Agent, the visitor) about the grainy texture and life emotional heft as he lived, pas profiled by Hollywood. Win Win, which he wrote with Joe Tiboni, is more recent McCarthy, hilarious and heartfelt gem with a hard core which pushes all things Sappy Records. Paul Giamatti gives a master acting as Mike Flaherty, a New Jersey lawyer who specializes in the care of the elderly and, more recently, in the corners of the Cup. With the economy squeezing the life of Mike with wife Jackie (the wonderful never Amy Ryan) and their two children, he took guardianship of Leo about dementia (Burt Young) without having the intention of winning its monthly fee. When Ohio, Leo junkie daughter, Cindy (Melanie Lynskey), Tomb Leo cash research, Mike revolt.
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But who is more selfish? Mike uses the son alienated Kyle (Alex Shaffer), Cindy, to boost his case and the losing team to catch the high school that he coaches with his friend Terry (a superb Bobby Cannavale). Newcomer Shaffer is an expert wrestler, and it shows; It is his natural talent. His scenes with Giamatti floor you. Nothing fancy - which is not the style of McCarthy. Neither is drum rah-rah. This film earns you more, head and heart, without cheating. It is almost perfect.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Limitless

Do you know how science said that we can access only 20 percent of our brain? Well, Eddie Morra, blocked writer Bradley Cooper played with valve of humour and heart bruised in unlimited, ups the ante to 100%. And suddenly, it is a typewriter, a linguist, one against, a wolf of Wall Street and a man owned. Thanks to a small pill jagged called NZT. It is illegal, well understood and rare even at $600 a pop push near OD level and pieces of your memory go poof! Try to go the cold Turkey, and your head will threaten to explode. Unlimited strikes you as an adrenalin which will have you saying: "I'll have what he has."
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It is the thing on a thriller of corn blown that really POPs. You are way less than 20% of your brain and warm current, collective hedonistic. Cooper out swinging, extending from charm and sex appeal on the monster becomes Eddie. And Director Neil Burger (the illusionist) corresponds to its intensity. Working from the spiky script Leslie Dixon carved novel by Alan Glynn The Dark Fields, 2001, Burger rides this fantasy escape in high style and hard. Robert De Niro, in an expensive haircut which does not hide quite smile of a thug, adds threat as Carl Van Loon (the name of love), a business mogul who wants to know where Eddie gets his mojo. And Abbie Cornish combines love found and lost in one lovely package. Again, this is show of Cooper, and the hangover Star treats Eddie as a role to feast, he done with enthusiasm. It intercepts all excess drab of a writer in New York, infamous for its failure to launch. The NZT ensured by a friend who is quickly murdered is her ticket, as long as supply lasts. Enter the NARCS, followed by the superior forces wishing to exploit the next big thing. The script sets up a premise of mind that a few real-world cultural wunderkinds may have their own NZT. I have never said that you, Mark Zuckerberg.
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OK, unlimited has its limits. The plot touches some nasty speed bumps, and the end is rote. But getting there is tremendous, Bending fun. Watch Eddie flex its brain cells takes a kick tied with Spider-Man to test his skills with small jumps and jump until it is leaping across rooftops. Note: the pill is not magic, it can only highlight the smarts you already have. The real housewives of Nip/Tuck USA will still have a struggle. What does unlimited a powerful provocation for the age of Adderall. It is a dream of wet for anyone who has never dreamed to make a step ahead on the information highway. The worst side effect is that you will not believe a word of the thing done in the morning. Fair exchange.