Home Viewing with Peter #988
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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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…
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Film Preview: Ballet Shoes (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Nauseatingly dear, the poster is perfectly suited to the young teenage girl market, but there’s little in it that truly screams quality of achievement. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: Emma Watson needs jobs outside…
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Film Preview: Appaloosa (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: A- Review: It isn’t quite the best poster of the year, but it’s certainly one of the most stylish. Putting a woman between the two leads is a strong statement on her position in their…
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Film Preview: Babylon A.D. (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Stylizing the New York City of the future is a nice touch and is the story, but having the image off-kilter to explain the film’s tones and putting a hooded figure in the…
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Film Preview: Little Red Truck (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: It may be simple, but at least it says something, even if it is only symbolically. Trailer Rating: B- Review: It might be interesting to watch trained thespians put on stage shows using…
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Film Preview: Fireproof (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: The point of the redundant imagery is lost. While the title featuring wedding rings in place of the O’s is the only thing of merit on the one-sheet. Trailer Rating: C- Review: Kirk…
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Film Preview: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Rudimentary at best, the poster does very little to sell the picture to anyone who isn’t already familiar with Michael Cera, but his name alone isn’t likely to sell the flick. Trailer Rating:…
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Review: Get Smart (2008)
Get Smart Rating Director Peter Segal Screenplay Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember Length 110 min. Starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, James Caan, Bill Murray, Patrick Warburton, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence, Ken Davitian, David S. Lee, Dalip Singh, Geoff Pierson MPAA Rating PG-13 for some rude…
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Review: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The Incredible Hulk Rating Director Louis Letterier Screenplay Zak Penn Length 114 min. Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, Christina Cabot, Peter Mensah, Lou Ferrigno, Paul Soles MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Hoping…
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Review: No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Country for Old Men Rating Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Screenplay Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Novel by Cormac McCarthy) Length 122 min. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant MPAA Rating R (for strong graphic violence and…
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Review: Wall-E (2008)
Wall-E Rating Director Andrew Stanton Screenplay Andrew Stanton Length 103 min. Starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver MPAA Rating G Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Charming, effervescent and socially relevant are three terms that accompany almost every Pixar feature thus far made. Wall-E takes many of…
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Review: April Fool’s Day (2008)
April Fool’s Day Rating Director The Butcher Brothers Screenplay Mikey Wigart, Danilo Bach Length 91 min. Starring Taylor Cole, Josh Henderson, Scout Taylor-Compton, Joe Egender, Jennifer Siebel, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer, Frank Aard, Sabrina Aldridge MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Source Material Review It goes without saying that remaking well liked films is an ill-advised…
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The DVD Report #66
It’s time for another in my series of “Films By Year” and their availability on DVD. While my articles on the years from 1957 through 1961 focused on films released in the U.S. in those years, I’m doing a bit of shift in focus starting with 1962 and going with the first year of theatrical…
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Film Preview: The Order of Myths (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Not terribly impressive nor involving. It’s overly simplified and feels out of place with regard to a film about Mardi Gras. Trailer Rating: C Review: I can’t figure out what the film is…
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