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Film Preview: Mister Lonely (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Overly simplified and inexpressive, this poster is hardly engaging and doesn’t encourage anyone to check out the film. Matter of fact, the festival banner at the top may just turn the average viewer…
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Film Preview: The Fall (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: It fits nearly perfectly with the film’s visual style, but it is relatively inexpressive. Visual style must be accompanied by substance and, although I’ve seen the trailer, I don’t see much of the…
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Film Preview: Mister Foe (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: (no review ever written) Trailer Rating: C+ Review: I can’t make heads or tails of this story. It seems like it’s trying for an indie-art niche that is overly populated while attempting to…
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Film Preview: Chapter 27 (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: This poster is a bit disconcerting, but then again, so was the man depicted. While it’s important to make the film about Mark David Chapman, making his mug the only prominent part of…
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Film Preview: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: More impressive than the trailer itself, this poster is evocative, symbolic and pleasing to the eye. Placing a subdued Ed Norton in front of a beefed up version of himself as the Hulk…
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Film Preview: My Brother Is an Only Child (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Simple and colorful, this poster is visually pleasing without being overbearing. It may not encourage patrons to visit the film, but it’s at least not distracting or offensive. Trailer Rating: B+ Review: There’s…
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Film Preview: My Blueberry Nights (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: The blue/purple flare in the poster is befitting the title, but the visual dazzle is only minimally successful. Featuring only the female members of the cast might encourage the male demographic to the…
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The DVD Report #46
Lots of people seem to have trouble with the ending of No Country for Old Men, this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor. I don’t get what they don’t get. The dreams that Tommy Lee Jones reveals to his wife, Tess Harper, at the end of the film may…
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The DVD Report #45
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn’t bestow many career achievement awards. When they do, they’re usually reserved for legendary stars like Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Deborah Kerr and Peter O’Toole or directors like Howard Hawks, King Vidor, Blake Edwards and Sidney Lumet who might otherwise not have an…
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Film Preview: American Zombie (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B+ Review: Unlike the trailer, the poster is definitely inspired. The air-punching fist of a zombie compares itself nicely with a trailer that starts off at a war protest. It’s the kind of image we…
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Film Preview: The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: This poster is quite a bit cluttered. While it’s important to set the film in Paris, the window view is hardly an eye-catching vantage point. The titular balloon is too aggresively placed and,…
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The DVD Report #44
I had hoped to review Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and Warner Bros. Fordibben Hollywood, Vol. 2 this week, but I’ve been told their DVD releases scheduled for today have been postponed, the former to May 6, the latter to March 25. No matter, there are still lots of other new releases to keep us…
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Film Preview: The Love Guru (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C; C+; C Review: The makeup does a good job of masking Mike Myers’ features and the perpetual smile seems a bit too Hallmark, but there’s no denying that this poster’s softer colors and Myers…
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Film Preview: Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C- Review: There aren’t that many people I know who…
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The DVD Report #43
Every year we thrill at certain Oscar winners, scoff at others. Here are a few thoughts on some winners for which the thrill remains. Six Best Picture Winners In only its third year in 1930, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave its award to what is still one of the great films…
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