31 December 2008

Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

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• Fans of the Kevin Bacon game who now have so many more actors with whom to connect him

• People who idolize Michael Sheen

• Anyone who doubted Frank Langella

• People who just cannot get enough of Sam Rockwell or Oliver Platt

• Anyone who wonders about the suggestive nature of Italian loafers

• Those who wonder why all government scandals are now given the suffix 'gate'

• People who don't mind if Hollywood plays a little fancy and free with history for the sake of building dramatic tension

 

 

• People who don't think Kevin Bacon should be in a supporting role

• Fans of Pat Nixon

• Those who don't want to encourage Hollywood to put its own spin on history

• People who don't like to see stage plays turned into movies

• People who don't want to see Sam Rockwell sport a mullet

 

 

 

 


30 December 2008

Review of Were the World Mine (2008)

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• Fans of Tom Gustafson's Fairies

• People who harbor hate and fear for people who are different than they

• Fans of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

• People who like films filmed in and around Chicago

• Anyone looking to see the next big teen heart-throb actor

 

 

 

 

 

• People who have no desire to have the tables turned and leave their comfort zone

• Purists who think short films should never be made into features

• Those who hate musicals or when actors, sprayed with a love potion, start speaking in Elizabethan-style English

• People who never realized that Puck was a fairy

• Those who don't believe all the world's a stage

 

 

 

 

 


22 December 2008

Review of Valkyrie (2008)

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• Fans of Tom Cruise

• Fans of WWII films

• People who don't know there was a German Resistance working to topple Hilter

• People who have forgotten the atrocities of WWII

• Anyone who doubts the power of fear as a disingenuous way to control a populace

• People who thought Bill Nighy was only capable of playing pirates

• Anyone convinced that war is good for the economy

• People who think they've seen it all when it comes to WWII

 

• People who don't want to believe there were any good people in WWII Germany

• People who cannot set aside Tom Cruise's personal life to watch him play an historically important anti-war hero

• People who don't like tense, thriller-type films

• People who don't think there should be any jokes in a war movie

• People who want to continue their fantasy that WWII and the holocaust never happened

 

 

 

 

 


12 December 2008

Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

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• Fans of Jennifer Connelley and Keanu Reeves

• Green people (not Martians, environmentalists)

• People who don't care if the film deviates in all the wrong places from the original

• Fans of really cool special effects from Peter Jackson's Weta Studio

• People who are ready for an allegory for change

 

 

 

• Fans of Jaden Smith (horrible character), Kathy Bates (wrong charater), and Kyle Chandler (miniscule character)

• People who are hoping that John Cleese will be resurrecting Basil Fawlty

• People who were huge, huge fans of the original and hoping that this version will be better than the original

• People who don't like remakes

• People who think the only good alien is a dead alien

• Those who wake up in the middle of the night because they feel something crawling on them when there's nothing there

 


07 December 2008

Review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

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• Pastors who preach hate

• Talk Radio and TV Show Hosts who have superiority complexes

• People needing a reminder of the dangers of following a movement founded on the ideology that some people, based on nothing they've done of a criminal nature, are more worthy to live and be free than other human beings

• Those convinced that the horrors of the Nazi regime are overstated

• People who read the book and want to see the film

• People who want to see one of the best leading performances by a young child star since Christian Bale starred in Empire of the Sun

• Fans of Vera Farmiga and David Thewlis, but especially fans of David Hayman—very worthy of a best supporting actor nomination

 

 

 

 

• People who are prepared to be haunted by the incredibly powerful but devastating and sad ending

• Those who've lost someone a fascist regime and cannot bear to relive the horror

• People who have no stomach for war, and already know it

 

 

 

 

 

 


05 December 2008

Review of Nobel Son (2008)

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• Fans of Bryan Greenberg!!!

• People who still crush on Mary Steenbergen

• People who thought there was no way that Alan Rickman could play a slimier character than those he's done before

• People with opposable thumbs

• Artisans of Marzipan

• People who thought Ted Danson's career was over with the "Cheers" finale

• If your name backwards spells Shawn Hatosy

 

 

• Anyone who is jealous of Eliza Dushku

• People who hated Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School

• Those who saw Ruthless People and never want to see Danny DeVito in a kidnapping movie again

• Popcorn-aholics who cannot wait until 15 minutes into the movie before starting in on their giant tub

• Those who prefer the Matrix to the Mini

• Fans of Slam Poetry