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Film Preview: Gran Torino (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: A rather undistinguished poster for such a promising project. Clint Eastwood’s image might pull people to the theater expecting a gun-toting Dirty Harry-style film and then they’ll be exceedingly disappointed if they haven’t
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The DVD Report #77
A box office hit, though not quite the success its producers had hoped, Paramount has released Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Blu-Ray and standard DVD. The fourth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise comes nineteen years after the last one, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,and finds star Harrison Ford
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Review: Max Payne (2008)
Max Payne Rating Director John Moore Screenplay Beau Thorne (Video Game by Remedy Entertainment and 3-D Realms Entertainment, Created by Sam Lake) Length 100 min. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Chris O’Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kyrlenko, Rothaford Gray, Joel Gordon, Jamie Hector, Andrew Friedman, Marianthi Evans,
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Film Preview: Gardens of the Night (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Although there is a line of text early in the trailer suggesting that there are some disturbing events in the film, a poster that’s designed more like a horror film does not make
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Film Preview: Eden (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Color rich, but emotionally lacking, this design takes a risk by not giving a more evocative idea what the film is about and instead relying on facial expressions to tell a story of
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Film Preview: Delgo (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: As childish as the trailer, this poster reminds me of the VHS box covers of those direct-to-video Disney rip-offs. Needless to say that’s not a positive. Trailer Rating: C; D Review: When does
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Film Preview: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: The poster, while only tangentially related to the documentary, is in a classic style that looks fresh and cinematically appropriate. It’s a work of art that moves beyond traditional poster design. Trailer Rating:
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Film Preview: Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: The poster is a bit more akin to Foolish than it is to Flashbacks. The strips of images featuring charcters is a bit old and the cornflower blue background color feels entirely out
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Film Preview: Hounddog (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: The poster looks strikingly like the one used for Funny Games which featured Naomi Watts “crying” in supposed terror. Here, it’s just a morose little Dakota Fanning face and I must admit it’s
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The DVD Report #76
Disney has entered the Blu-ray market with the re-release of its 1959 animated Sleeping Beauty. The disc looks terrific, the colors sharper than the previous standard DVD release of five years ago, but the film itself has always struck me as a bit lackluster when compared to the glorious work of such earlier efforts as
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Review: City of Ember (2008)
City of Ember Rating Director Gil Kenan Screenplay Caroline Thompson (Book by Jeanne Duprau) Length 95 min. Starring Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Mary Kay Place, Liz Smith, Amy Quinn, Catherine Quinn, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mackenzie Crook MPAA Rating PG for mild peril and some thematic elements Buy/Rent Movie
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Review: Blindness (2008)
Blindness Rating Director Fernando Meirelles Screenplay Don McKellar (Novel by Jose Saramago) Length 120 min. Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Susan Coyne, Sandra Oh MPAA Rating R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack
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Film Preview: Christmas on Mars: The Flaming Lips (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: Effectively matching the trailer’s bizarreness, the poster is strange, unusual and completely fun. Trailer Rating: B Review: Telling you the entire plot is a costly decision, but considering the style and subject, it
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Film Preview: Antarctica (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The title seems entirely out of place and two of my least favorite poster design elements are present (the festival laurels and the side-by-side film image panes, but the core image sufficiently explains
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Film Preview: House (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: So, the pentagram features prominently in the trailer, but the poster really doesn’t do enough to explain why the film is called house. Granted, the pentagram will draw curious onlookers to its subject,
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