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Review ñ Shutter Island
Martin Scorseseís latest film ìShutter Island” has all the elements of a great psychological thriller, from crazy people, to vivid nightmares, to strange twists and turns, and of course, a creepy child. As soon as the film begins and the camera slowly approaches the docks of Shutter Island, then passes through the main gates, itís…
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Review ñ Sheís Out of My League
If you enjoy watching grown men running around acting like overly hormonal teenagers for an hour and a half, the new romantic comedy ìSheís Out of My League” is for you. If not, than I would strongly recommend seeing something else. By the time the credits rolled, I could safely say that I found this…
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Review ñ Alice In Wonderland
The more movies Tim Burton makes, the clearer it is to me that Tim Burton can only make one movie, over and over again.† The combination of his highly recognizable aesthetic ó dark twisted fantasy worlds ó and his insistence on using the same two distinctive actors in every film makes it hard for his…
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Review ñ The Crazies
The remake of an almost-but-not-quite zombie movie is nothing spectacular, but certainly lives up to expectations for a slightly above average horror film. Breck Eisnerís ìThe Crazies,” pulling a 72 percent at Rotten Tomatoes, delivers all the things you would expect from your run-of-the-mill suspense flick. Some of the earlier kills in the movie were…
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Pirate Radio makes a comedy that rocks
When I sat down to watch Pirate Radio, I wasnít sure what to expect. It had been marketed as a Philip Seymour Hoffman film, and from experience those were dark, depressing and heavy. However, the second the movie began, I realized how wrong I was. Any movie that opens with The Kinks and graduates to…
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Nine
There are plenty of movies that I like. I suppose there are even more that I don’t. One of the ones I like the most, however, is ì8 1/2,” a classic Italian film from 1963. One I like much, much less, is ìNine,” a recent remake of the musical. Anyone familiar with the film would…
