Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (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 is a striking image and was the first thing that drew me to the page. It’s succinct and appropriate and completely conveys the film’s subject. Not many posters can achieve that.…
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Film Preview: Forever Strong (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: For having a thoroughly unexceptioanl trailer, the poster for the film is better than I would have expected. Using muted brown tones, the coloration and image selection is incredibly effective, even if it…
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Film Preview: The Lucky Ones (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Other than the interesting gimmick of using the sideview mirror to cature the film’s characters, there isn’t anything very original in the poster. I can’t even see any appreciable symbolism, which doesn’t assist…
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Film Preview: An American Carol (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: The first thing that caught my attention was the Michael Moore clone with a sandwich, making fun of Moore’s weight. It’s a low blow, but expected in a parody. The rest of the…
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Film Preview: The Linguists (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: It looks like something Pink Floyd might have once used on an album cover. Since this isn’t a rockumentary, that comparison may not be appropriate. Though, it’s really hard to see anything else…
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Film Preview: The House Bunny (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 terribly inventive, nor entirely engaging, but the poster sufficiently encapsulates the film’s plot and purpose without much effort. Trailer Rating: C+; C+ Review: Anna Faris is one of those comic actresses…
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Film Preview: The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+; C Review: If you’re going to put a poster together like this, at least put real blood/lipstick/paint on a real mirror and actually put the actress in front of it. It is painfully obvious…
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Film Preview: Flow (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: A-; B Review: Superimposing the globe on a droplet of water is a clever touch to a poster that quickly and simply puts the chips on the table regarding the film’s important subject. While I’ll…
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Film Preview: Max Payne (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C; C Review: Stylized like the trailer, but a bit too overbearing. There’s a certain artistic quality, but one that could have been done reasonbly well for another film with the necessary imagery. Not too…
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Film Preview: Battle in Seattle (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 is reminiscent of the disaster flicks of the 1970s, which may not entirely be their intention. Trailer Rating: A- Review: This big screen exploration of the WTO riots in Seattle seems…
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Film Preview: A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Titillation to sell a film. Who would have thought? Clumsy and lacking in eroticism, I would have expected something better from a French director. Trailer Rating: B- Review: This Claude Chabrol thriller just…
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Film Preview: Hell Ride (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Horrendously cluttered and awash in too few colors, the poster at least harkens back to the 1970s, a time the film pretends to emulate. Trailer Rating: C Review: With Quentin Tarantino’s name attached…
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Film Preview: Full Battle Rattle (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: What is the purpose of exposing the poster in black-and-white and then coloring the van yellow? The trailer gives no hint at the symbolism of it, which makes the poster quite irritating. Trailer…
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Film Preview: Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C-; B- Review: Hoopefully something in the film has to do with cherries because otherwise, this poster is entirely worthless. The cherries have been dialed back a notch and it certainly aides this second poster.…
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Film Preview: 8 Miles High (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: They say that sex sells and they wouldn’t be wrong, but when all you have display is a sexy image, you get interst, but not in your film. Trailer Rating: B- Review: It’s…
