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Film review: Somers Town (The Telegraph)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:28:56 GMT

Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Shane Meadows's touching coming-of-age film, Somers Town.

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Film review: Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:09 GMT

Silly, however, is certainly what the 9/11 theories are. To recap: this movie, like an earlier essay called Loose Change, promotes the belief not merely that 9/11 was a bogus pretext for war, but that it was a bogus event itself, faked, stage-managed and orchestrated by the powers that be. The twin towers were not brought down by kamikaze terrorists, but demolished by covert military-grade explosives,...

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Phelim O'Neill on lost British films and the saving of Kenny Everett's horror movie (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:08 GMT

Kenny Everett's horror movie may not be Citizen Kane, but it deserves its rescue from the vaults. Phelim O'Neill on how thousands of British films could soon be lost for ever

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Film review: College Road Trip (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:07 GMT

... he needs to whack. It had a thousand times more wit and insight than this.) Incredibly, the movie boasts a cameo from, of all people, Donny Osmond, playing another wackily over-protective dad. He's actually far from being an incompetent performer, though this doesn't make him or anyone else any easier to watch.

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Film review: Summer Palace (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:06 GMT

Presented as part of the 21st-century Chinese Cinema season at London's BFI Southbank, this 2006 film (which got its makers into trouble at home after screening at Cannes) is a bold assault on that great taboo subject: the Tiananmen Square massacre. For a Chinese film to address it at all is startling, and to address it in such an inflammatory way, even more so. The director is Lou Ye,...

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Film review: Face Addict (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:06 GMT

Another week, another snippet of Warhol cine-marginalia. This is a movie memoir by Edo Bertoglio, the Swiss-born photographer and film-maker who was a satellite of the Andy Warhol scene in New York in the 1970s and 80s, and took photos for his Interview magazine as well as album covers. (His best known work now may be Blondie's 1978 album, Parallel Lines.) Bertoglio loved portraiture,...

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Film review: Shoot on sight (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:06 GMT

Mundhra's 7/7 movie looks like a decently acted, high-production-value TV drama

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Film review: Get smart (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:06 GMT

Mel Brooks' ancient 1960s TV show Get Smart was a spy spoof, starring a dopey special agent whose shoe was a walkie-talkie - notable for being not particularly funny. (It was a bit like James Coburn's "Flint" spy-movie sendups, much loved by Austin Powers.) For some reason, Hollywood's greying babyboomers have chosen to revive this old clunker, in the form of an action comedy update which is...

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Film review: Hellboy II, Get Smart, Somers Town, The Rocker (The First Post)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Surely it's scientifically impossible to find a more charming film than Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. For starters, we have the source material: Winifred Watson's bright, winsome novel of the same name, set in 1930s London. Then we have Amy Adams playing Delysia Lafosse, an American starlet trying to make it on the London stage, who in one light is utterly unbearable, but in another, quite...

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Movie Review: The Promotion (Blogger News Network)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:58:07 GMT

... room and teach you how to manage whole cases of laughter. Bring home this outrageously wonderful film today!Seann William Scott plays Doug, a man who has made a career out of being the assistant manager at the local Donaldson’s supermarket and is married to a nurse (played by the immaculately talented and stunningly beautiful Jenna Fisher). A new store is opening up in his neighborhood and...

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The House Bunny (review) (FlickFilosopher.com)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:10:49 GMT

Sex Bomb You’ve heard the term sex bomb. Now hear this: The House Bunny is a nuclear sex bomb, a radioactive weapon deadly to all forms of life except cockroaches and -- maybe -- morons as catastrophically stupid as the Playboy bunny Anna Faris “portrays” here....

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HACK/SLASH #15 REVIEW (comiXtreme)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:08:28 GMT

*Review by:* Blake M. Petit Blake@comixtreme.com *Quick Rating:* Great *Title:* Cassie and Vlad Meet the Re-Animator Part One *Rating:* Mature Readers Cassie's quest for her father brings her face-to-face with Herbert West: the Re-Animator! *Script:* Tim Seeley *Story:* Tim Seeley, Barry Keating...

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Movie Review for Henry Poole is Here (2008) (movieEVERYday.com)

noreply@blogger.com (scooter thompson) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:05:00 GMT

Click Poster to Purchase Review #672 of 365 Movie Review of Henry Poole is Here (2008) [PG] 100 minutes WIP™ Scale: $13.75 Where Viewed: Landmark Mayan, Denver, CO When Seen: 13 August 2008 @ 7:30 pm DVD Release Date: Unscheduled (please check back) After the Credits: nothing Soundtrack: Download now from - or - order the CD below Directed by: Mark Pellington (U2 3D) Written by:...

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Movie Review - Rambo IV - Harrowing (.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:05 GMT

In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. I was always a big fan of Rambo, of course Rambo: First Blood is still the classic and one of the best action/hero movies ever [...] Read the full post at shaolintiger.com.

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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Frozen River' - Miami Herald (Miami)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:23:00 GMT

An impressive first feature by writer/director Courtney Hunt, "Frozen River" boasts considerable suspense-movie tension and a compelling emotional journey for its foreground characters. Set in ...

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Movie review: 'Death Race' a bloody wreck (San Fransisco Chronicle)

phartlaub@sfchronicle.com (Peter Hartlaub) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) Death Race: Action. Starring Jason Statham, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson and Joan Allen. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. (R. 104 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) One more reason why Joan Allen is the most underrated actress of her...

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Movie review: 'The House Bunny' (San Fransisco Chronicle)

phartlaub@sfchronicle.com (Peter Hartlaub) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) The House Bunny: Comedy. Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone and Katharine McPhee. Directed by Fred Wolf. (PG-13. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Presumably, your college experience was a little more intensive than the one...

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Feature: SONIC DEATH MONKEY Soundtrack Reviews - Tropic Thunder (eFilmCritic)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:05:39 GMT

Monkey ThunderMichael CollinsLet's see how much thunder there is in Tropic Thunder. We are in for a varied collection of tracks here. Maybe it is a little too varied.The look of the Tropic Thunder scared me off so much that you would need to tie me to a truck to drag me to see that film – plus some popcorn. It’s all down to the bill poster – Black, Stiller and Downey Jr looking all military and testosteroned...

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Incredible Hercules #120 Review (IGN)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:56:00 GMT

IGN reviews Incredible Hercules #120.

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Film review: Trouble The Water (A.V. Club)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:12:57 GMT

... take on the storm and its immediate aftermath will be disappointed to find that the bulk of the film takes place post-emergency. Even more bothersome is how Lessin and Deal keep steering away from the most persistently unsettling part of the Hurricane Katrina story, having to do with the multiple ways the rights of American citizens were taken away, by the suspicious and the well-meaning...

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