Category: Film Reviews
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Review: True Grit (2010)
True Grit Rating Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Screenplay Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Novel: Charles Portis) Length 110 min. Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper MPAA Rating PG-13 for some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images
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Review: The Fighter (2010)
The Fighter Rating Director David O. Russell Screenplay Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington Length 116 min. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O’Keefe, Jack McGee MPAA Rating R for language throughout, drug content, some violence and sexuality
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The Morning After #27: December 27, 2010
The holidays are always a busy time and that usually includes the viewing of lots of screeners. Below are my thoughts on several films, though my review of Somewhere is missing from the list and will have to be reserved for later as I watched it a few weeks ago, but was limited by embargo…
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Review: Never Let Me Go (2010)
Never Let Me Go Rating Director Mark Romanek Screenplay Alex Garland (Novel: Kazuo Ishiguro) Length 103 min. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Isobel Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins MPAA Rating R for some sexuality and nudity
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The Morning After #26: December 20, 2010
I got a little caught up this weekend on movies, though not nearly enough. More short snippet reviews today with longer ones hopefully in the future. And for those expecting my Feed the Queue review of Nashville, you’ll have to wait another week. I didn’t get any Netflix DVDs watched last week, so it did…
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Review: The American (2010)
The American Rating Director Anton Corbijn Screenplay Rowan Joffe (Novel: Martin Booth) Length 105 min. Starring George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Irina Björklund, Filippo Timi MPAA Rating R for violence, sexual content and nudity
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Review: Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux Rating Director Charles Chaplin Screenplay Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles Length 124 min. Starring Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz, Martha Raye, Ada-May MPAA Rating Unrated
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Review: Let Me In (2010)
Let Me In Rating Director Matt Reeves Screenplay Matt Reeves (Screenplay & Novel: John Ajvide Lindqvist) Length 116 min. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono, Elias Koteas, Sasha Barrese, Dylan Kenin, Chris Browning, Ritchie Coster, Dylan Minnette, Jimmy Jax Pinchak, Nicolai Dorian MPAA Rating R for strong bloody horror violence, language…
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Review: Seven Beauties (1975)
Seven Beauties Rating Director Lina Wertmüller Screenplay Lina Wertmüller Length 115 min. Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Piero Di Iorio, Enzo Vitale, Robert Herlitzka, Lucio Amelio, Ermelinda De Felice, Bianca D’Origlia, Francesca Marciani, Mario Conti, Barbara Valmorin, Emilio Salvatori, Aristide Caporali, Pasquale Vitiello MPAA Rating R
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The Morning After #25: December 13, 2010
Not a lot of time available for movies this weekend, so there isn’t much to say tonight. So, here is what I watched this weekend: SEVEN BEAUTIES An Italian mobster finds himself trapped in a German concentration facility after a disquieting series of events led him into military service and then into the hands of…
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The Morning After #24: December 6, 2010
It was a very long weekend and I didn’t get a lot watched. I also didn’t have a lot of time to put my full reviews together like I normally do, so I’ll give you brief snippets on each film and a full review later (probably during next week’s Morning After), except for Psych, which…
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Review: Black Swan
BLACK SWAN Rating Director Darren Aronofsky Screenplay Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin Length 107 min. Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder MPAA Rating R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use.
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Review: 127 Hours (2010)
127 Hours Rating Director Danny Boyle Screenplay Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy (Book: Aron Ralston) Length 94 min. Starring James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean A. Bott, Koleman Stinger, Parker Hadley, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Clémence Poésy, John Lawrence, Treat Williams, Lizzy Caplan, Fenton G. Quinn, P.J. Hull, Pieter Jan Brugge, Rebecca C. Olson, Jeffrey Wood,…
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Review: Meet John Doe (1941)
Meet John Doe Rating Director Frank Capra Screenplay Robert Riskin (Story: Richard Connell, Robert Presnell) Length 122 min. Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Bernnan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, Irving Bacon MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Tangled (2010)
Tangled Rating Director Nathan Greno, Byron Howard Screenplay Dan Fogelman (Fairy Tale: The Brothers Grimm) Length 100 min. Starring Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett, Paul F. Tompkins, Richard Kiel MPAA Rating PG for brief mild violence
