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Review: Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Coco Before Chanel Rating Director Anne Fontaine Screenplay Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine (Book: Edmonde Charles-Roux) Length 105 min. Starring Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Régis Royer, Etienne Bartholomeus, Yan Duffas MPAA Rating PG-13 for sexual content and smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Source Material Review Before the famed fashion designer put…
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Tributes: December 2009
(Updated 8/20/10, 8:40p: corrected tribute links) It has been a long while, but I am finally able to get to some Tribute updates. The Tributes for those lost in 2010 are still in process, but here are the remaining luminaries of 2009. You can also go directly to the main 2009 tributes page here: 2009…
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Review: The Young Victoria (2009)
The Young Victoria Rating Director Jean-Marc Vallée Screenplay Julian Fellowes Length 100 min. Starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann, Mark Strong, Jesper Christensen MPAA Rating PG for some mild sensuality, a scene of violence, and brief incidental language and smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review British monarchs have…
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Review: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (2009)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Rating Director Lee Daniels Screenplay Geoffrey Fletcher (Novel: Sapphire) Length 100 min. Starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar, Cyna Layne MPAA Rating R for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review…
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Review: In the Loop (2009)
In the Loop Rating Director Armando Iannucci Screenplay Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche Length 106 min. Starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gnia McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Paul Higgins, Mimi Kennedy, Alex Macqueen, Olivia Poulet, David Rasche, James Smith, Zach Woods, Enzo Cilenti, Johnny Pemberton, Joanna Scanlan, Steve Coogan MPAA…
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Review: Coraline (2009)
Coraline Rating Director Henry Selick Screenplay Henry Selick (Book: Neil Gaiman) Length 96 min. Starring Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr, Ian McShane MPAA Rating PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Forced to move…
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The DVD Report #147 – March 16, 2010
By the end of the 1928/29 Oscar eligibility year, talkies had firmly taken hold in Hollywood. Silent films were all but dead on arrival at the box office. Panicked studios were forced to insert sound sequences into silent films already in production in order to increase audience interest in their films. Artistically, however, the last…
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Review: The Princess and the Frog (2009)
The Princess and the Frog Rating Director Ron Clements, John Musker Screenplay Rom Clements, John Musker, Rob Edwards, Don Hall, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland Length 97 min. Starring Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, John Goodman MPAA Rating G Buy/Rent…
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Review: Nine (2009)
Nine Rating Director Rob Marshall Screenplay Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella (Musical: Arthur Kopit, Maury Yeston, Mario Fratti) Length 118 min. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, Fergie MPAA Rating PG-13 for sexual content and smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Theater has long sought…
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Review: The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Hurt Locker Rating Director Kathryn Bigelow Screenplay Mark Boal Length 131 min. Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly, Christian Camargo MPAA Rating R for war violence and language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Deep in the bowels of the Iraq War, bomb squads must risk…
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Review: Crazy Heart (2009)
Crazy Heart Rating Director Scott Cooper Screenplay Scott Cooper (Novel: Thomas Cobb) Length 111 min. Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Brian Gleason, Colin Farrell MPAA Rating R for language and brief sexuality. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review A drunken singer who has hit rock bottom discovers that the love of a…
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Review: Avatar (2009)
Avatar Rating Director James Cameron Screenplay James Cameron Length 162 min. Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi, Laz Alonso MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Big and…
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Previews: Week Ending March 14, 2010
After two long months, I have finally gotten my Previews page updated. While I still have roughly three dozen previews still waiting to be written, this will be the first of many large updates before things get back to normal. It’s amazing how much can happen in the two months between getting busy with the…
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82nd Oscars Recap
It’s been just over two days since the 82nd Academy Awards came to a close and while some thoughts are still fairly clear, many are flitting away, so it’s time to get my post-game analysis down. At the bottom of this article, I’ve posted the full text of my Twitter updates that night. Before that…
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The DVD Report #146 – March 9, 2010
Now that the 82nd Academy Awards have come and gone, it’s time to take a look back at previous Oscar years and the nominated and award winning films of each year available on DVD. We begin with the Oscar year 1927/28 honoring films released in Los Angeles between August 1, 1927 and July 31, 1928.…
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