Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Rating Director Mike Newell Screenplay Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard (Video Game: Jordan Mechner) Length 116 min. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint, Toby Kebbell, Richard Coyle, Ronald Pickup, Reece Ritchie, Gísli Örn Garðarsson MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of violence…
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The Morning After #1: My Post-Weekend Capsules
You might say I’m a Netflix junkie. However, I would just say that I’m catching up on stuff I’ve never seen (or catching up on TV shows I missed or re-watching movies I haven’t seen in awhile). I get three out at a time and I try to finish all three each weekend. Sometimes it…
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Review: The English Patient (1996)
The English Patient Rating Director Anthony Minghella Screenplay Anthony Minghella (Novel by Michael Ondaatje) Length 160 min. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jrgen Prochnow MPAA Rating R (For sexuality, some violence and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Romantic epics are staples…
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Review: The A-Team (2010)
THE A-TEAM Rating Director Joe Carnahan Screenplay Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom, Skip Woods (TV Series: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell) Length 117 min. Starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson, Gerald McRaney, Henry Czerny, Yul Vazquez, Brian Bloom MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence…
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Review: Toy Story 3 (2010)
TOY STORY 3 Rating Director Lee Unkrich Screenplay Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Length 103 min. Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Emily Hahn, Laurie Metcalf, Bud Lackey, Beatrice Miller, Javier Fernandez Pena, Timothy Dalton,…
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Review: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
After posting yesterday’s review of Shrek Forever After, I decided I would post the other review I had for an animated film this year. And being as this is the best animated film release so far this year, I thought it was appropriate that I post this the day Toy Story 3, a film I’ll…
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Review: Shrek Forever After (2010)
SHREK FOREVER AFTER Rating Director Mike Mitchell Screenplay Josh Klausner, Darren Lemke Length 93 min. Starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, Jon Hamm, John Cleese, Craig Robinson, Walt Dohrn, Jane Lynch, Lake Bell, Kathy Griffin, Mary Kay Place, Kristen Schaal, Meredith Vieira, Ryan Seacrest, Cody Cameron, Larry King, Regis Philbin,…
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Opening Weekend Review: The Nature of Existence (2010)
I don’t get very many of these as they don’t hold screenings in Po Dunk, MO (Springfield for those who don’t know). So, only screeners I receive allow me to review upcoming releases. And three hours to drive to the nearest potential city with screenings is not economically or temporally feasible. So, whenever I have…
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Sondheim by Hollywood
In celebration of Sunday night’s Tony Awards and this year’s celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, I have reviewed the three big screen adaptations of Sondheim musicals that have to date been created: 1966’s A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, 1977’s A Little Night Music and 2007’s Sweeney Todd. Although Sondheim…
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Review: (500) Days of Summer (2009)
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER Rating Director Marc Webb Screenplay Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber Length 95 min. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Clark Gregg MPAA Rating PG-13 for sexual material and language.
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Review: The Book of Eli (2010)
THE BOOK OF ELI Rating Director The Hughes Brothers Screenplay Gary Whitta Length 118 min. Starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Francse de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits MPAA Rating R for some brutal violence and language.
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Review: Whip It (2009)
WHIP IT Rating Director Drew Barrymore Screenplay Shauna Cross (Novel: Shauna Cross) Length 111 min. Starring Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Alia Shawkat, Eve, Zoe Bell, Ari Graynor, Daniel Stern, Eulala Scheel MPAA Rating PG-13 for sexual content including crude dialogue, language and drug
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Review: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay Linda Woolverton (Books by Lewis Carroll) Length 108 min. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Paul Whitehouse, Timothy Spall, Marton Csokas MPAA Rating PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and…
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Review: Daybreakers (2010)
DAYBREAKERS Rating Director Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig Screenplay The Spierig Brothers Length 98 min. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Micahel Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas MPAA Rating R for strong bloody violence, language and brief nudity.
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Review: Iron Man 2 (2010)
IRON MAN 2 Rating Director Jon Favreau Screenplay Justin Theroux Length 124 min. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, John Slattery, Jon Favreau, Paul Bettany, Garry Shandling MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language.
