Home Viewing with Peter #988
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Review: Eagle Eye (2008)
Eagle Eye Rating Director D.J. Caruso Screenplay John Glenn, Travis Adam Wright, Hillary Seitz, Dan McDermott Length 118 min. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton, Julianne Moore (uncredited), Anthony Azizi, Cameron Boyce, Lynn Cohen, Bill Smitrovich, Charles Carroll, William Sadler MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense…
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Review: Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Starting Out in the Evening Rating Director Andrew Wagner Screenplay Fred Barnes, Andrew Wagner (Novel by Brian Morton) Length 111 min. Starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester, Jessica Hecht, Michael Cumpsty MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexual content, language and brief nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review What amounts to little…
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Film Preview: Bedtime Stories (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: A very inventive poster that gives rich detail to a potentially pedestrian kids’ fantasy. The graphics are interesting to look at and should do a sufficient job drawing the target audience to the…
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Film Preview: Breakfast with Scot (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Despite the child’s flare for the theatrical mentioned in the trailer, there isn’t a lick of outlandishness in the poster. Contrasting the more straight-up fathers with the outlandish child could have been accomplished…
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Film Preview: I’ve Loved You So Long (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Without knowing more of the plot, the poster has very little symbolic connection. It’s an interesting design suggesting a poster folded up as one would a note that is shoved into a pocket,…
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Film Preview: The Flyboys (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: The motion trail symbolizing flight is at odds with the scenes in the film, suggesting the poster is merely an attempt to make the film feel more like a high-flying adventure than a…
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Film Preview: Call + Response (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: While the slight image of a band playing adds some weight to the poster, the strips of slate/metal-gray pieces of paper across the poster is strongly at odds with the softer images behind,…
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Film Preview: Passengers (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Whereas this week’s new trailers are all relatively engaging, the posters have been anything but. However, this is at least the most interesting and carefully crafted of all of them. The only problem…
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Film Preview: The Elephant King (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Putting the “Thai” women front-and-center and pushing Ellen Burstyn to a slightly smaller background and putting the two male leads, the ones whose stories the film appears to be about, at a mid-foreground…
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Review: The Savages (2007)
The Savages Rating Director Tamara Jenkins Screenplay Tamara Jenkins Length 113 min. Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Hal Blankenship, Joan Jaffe MPAA Rating R (for some sexuality and language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The painful decision…
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Review: The Namesake (2007)
The Namesake Rating Director Mira Nair Screenplay Sooni Taraporevala (Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri) Length 122 min. Starring Irfan Khan, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu, Kal Penn, Sahira Nair, Zuleikha Robinson, Glenne Headly, Daniel Gerroll, Jacinda Barrett MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexuality/nudity, a scene of drug use, some disturbing images and brief language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster…
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Review: A Mighty Heart (2007)
A Mighty Heart Rating Director Michael Winterbottom Screenplay John Orloff (Book: Mariane Pearl) Length 108 min. Starring Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Saira Khan, Aliya Khan, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O’Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah…
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Review: What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
What Would Jesus Buy? Rating Director Rob VanAlkemade Screenplay None Length 90 min. Starring None MPAA Rating PG (for thematic material and brief mild language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review Have you ever wondered what Jesus would have thought about the current commercialization of his name? What Would Jesus Buy? puts the viewer alongside Reverend Billy…
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Review: Into the Wild (2007)
Into the Wild Rating Director Sean Penn Screenplay Sean Penn (Book by Jon Krakauer) Length 140 min. Starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Krisetn Stewart, Hal Holbrook MPAA Rating R (for language and some nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review If you ever…
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The DVD Report #73
Criterion continues to release near-perfect restorations of classic films. Three new releases add handsomely to their reputation. Director Michael Powell in seeing The Small Back Room at a Lincoln Center retrospective in 1991 found the then-more-than-forty-year-old film to be a cold movie. Although the film was well received by the British critics in 1949 (it…
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