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The Bodyguard

Of course, the film itself is not a good film. “The Bodyguard” is, in fact, very bad movie. But I like it, sort of odd way. On one of those likable, but stupid movies that make the time fly down on Friday night - unless, of course, you have something better than to spend time […]

Be Cool

Be Cool, the extension in late 1995 Get Shorty, in moments when we think it’s going to work. She sometimes tantalizes with witty dialogue and sharp supporting performances. Alas, this is only teases - priming us for a movie that never happens. Be Cool lacks both focus and edge, making it an amorphous confusing. Not […]

Backbeat

Oliver Stone may have loved this film. Not only Backbeat story of “his” era, in the early sixties, but it has more than a passing resemblance to one of his own photographs, The Doors (although it should be noted that Backbeat is moving much faster). If anything, however, stone, as a rule, gets his characters […]

8 Mile

At its heart, a normal 8 Mile motion picture. Applying traditional sports formula for hip-hop music, it manages to extend the familiar plot structure in the new arena. Thus, instead of the decisive battle taking place in the boxing ring or on the baseball field, it is taking place in the club where the two […]