John Malkovich’s directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs, is a political melodrama set in an unnamed Latin American country during “the recent past.” Based on Nicholas Shakespeare’s novel of the same name (which fictionalized the pursuit and capture of Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru’s The Shining Path), the movie combines an investigation into the identity and […]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by admin
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Steve Carell of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” has a personality, or maybe it is a lack of personality, that is growing on me. He is content to exist on the screen without sending wild semaphores of his intentions, his uniqueness and how funny he is. He’s an everyman like a very (very) low-key Jack Lemmon. That […]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by admin
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It was Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist that proved moviegoers were itching to have the wits scared out of them by Old Scratch hisself — the original bogeyman who has pervaded our collective fear for all of time. And Hollywood didn’t have to look any further than The Bible itself for truly horrific inspiration, as […]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by admin
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‘Daddy’ is probably the cleanest movie you’ll ever see - its G-rated antics make the stuff in last year’s “Scooby-Doo” seem pornographic in comparison. Its so clean that in one moment in the movie when Eddie Murphy makes a superannuation entendre to his wife as this is the first time they’ve been alone together in […]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by admin
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After recently polling the entire planet, I’ve learned that there wasn’t a single soul alive who requested a sequel to “Daddy Day Care.” Of course, that’s not going to stop Sony, who justifiably want to see how far they can milk this premise.
Fresh from the success of their “Daddy Day Care” service, Charlie (Cuba Gooding […]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by admin
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They say The Da Vinci Code has sold more copies than any book since the Bible. Good thing it has a different ending. Dan Brown’s novel is utterly preposterous; Ron Howard’s movie is preposterously entertaining. Both contain accusations against the Catholic Church and its order of Opus Dei that would be scandalous if anyone […]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by admin
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Pauline Kael once made the oft-quoted assertion that movies are so rarely great art that if one can’t appreciate great trash there’s little reason to go. I can’t agree with her cynicism about the cinema as art, and I suspect that, like so many of Kael’s proclamations, she didn’t really mean it herself (if she […]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by admin
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When a serial killer murders his girlfriend, FBI agent Jake Malloy winds up in a secluded detox centre for law enforcement officers. However, when a snowstorm cuts the group off, murders begin…
Some three years after filming began, D-Tox finally saw the light of day. That delay, coupled with the presence of former box office heavyweight […]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by admin
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In “Cyborg,” Jean-Claude Van Damme is “the first hero of the 21st century,” but even if everyone’s clothes look as if they’re from a glam-metal close-out sale at Commander Salamander — we are talking major silly future-fashion statements — the 21st century itself looks like ’70s New Jersey, a wasteland of eroding factories, auto junkyards […]
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by admin
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Jackie Dorsey (Christy Carlson Romano) is one of the most talented young figure skaters around, and a heavy favorite to score gold in the Olympics. But when an injury resulting from a dangerous move knocks her out of contention, she sees her future fall apart before her eyes. Not even the consolations of her mother […]
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