Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Four Christmases (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: It’s funny to see how short Reese is compared to Vince, but other than that, there is nothing exciting or original in this poster. Trailer Rating: B Review: Vince Vaughn is one of…
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Film Preview: Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: While there’s something slightly clever about the leaning tree (no doubt a slight reference to the tree in the front yard the family patriarch has promised to get rid of), the line-up of…
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Film Preview: Ballast (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D- Review: It may match the sense of realism expressed in the preview, but it’s hardly an attention grabbing poster. Trailer Rating: C Review: I’m sure there’s something interesting about this film, but I’m not…
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Film Preview: Changeling (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: I don’t quite understand the choice here other than to highlight the film’s star. And while it’s stylish in certain regards, it isn’t very fitting. Trailer Rating: A- Review: This looks like an…
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Film Preview: Nights and Weekends (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: It captures the realism of the film’s subjects, but it’s not terribly enticing. The festival laurels might draw in a small crowd, but from a distance, I can’t see how anyone would really…
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Film Preview: Elite Squad (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: This isn’t the kind of poster that draws an audience. Done in the style of a foreign radical, the poster is only partially interesting, but the three film scenes at the top actually…
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Film Preview: The Pool (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: A little too frilly along the edges with all the vine-work embellishment, it at least evokes a sense of longing that the boy has for the pool, which could be considered the central…
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Film Preview: Milk (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: There isn’t much to this poster. It’s basically an air-brushed scene from the film with Sean Penn smiling as the ill-fated politician. I don’t know if the milky white caste to the background…
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Film Preview: The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: More symbolic than exceptional, the poster is an amazing situational experiment. Considering the subject of the film, using a men’s room urinal as a throne for Queen Raquela is an inspired choice, but…
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Film Preview: Allah Made Me Funny (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: It’s not that funny. It’s not that interesting. It’s quite a bit too cluttered. Trailer Rating: B Review: While there are a few amusing bits in the trailer, I can’t say the presentation…
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Film Preview: Momma’s Man (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Taking a scene from the film is a risky move even if it does adequately explain the film’s plot without much effort. However, this looks like a serious version of one of the…
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Film Preview: Ghost Town (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: It’s a fitting poster, though not terribly exciting. It doesn’t do that rather annoying live action on animated background concept, and although the background does seem a bit filtered, it’s not distracting. Trailer…
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Film Preview: Humboldt County (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Certainly an interesting visual gesture to the film’s pot…I mean plot. Standing on the precipice of life, the poster adds a measure of meaning to the film’s theme that isn’t adequately expressed in…
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Film Preview: Local Color (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Colorful for sure, but to entice an audience, this image won’t cut it. It might draw a few art majors, but it’s hardly worth noticing unless you know what the subject is. Trailer…
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Film Preview: Frost/Nixon (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: B Review: For starring two brilliant thespians in roles of…
