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During "Yes Man," I registered five occasions, or was it six, that registered fully on the "laughometer." A point of reference in what constitutes making the upper range of this device is: laughing to the point of tears gushing from my eyes and then my nose will register a two on that meter.
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Director Darren Aronofsky's near remake of "The Champ" is an important film in the measure that it examines the life of the lost and the forgotten, after enjoying a small piece of the "American dream."
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The Spirit Frank Miller's adaptation of the Will Eisner comic strip of the same title was his follow- up to his last two very successful films (both financial and critical), Sin City and 300, was less impressive and in terms of art design, narrative and pace was a pale imitation of his previous succ
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Time Loves a Hero: Everyone Else Take a Seat This is the legacy of arguably two of Sergio Leone's best films: "Once Upon a Time in the West," and to be reviewed later, "Once Upon a Time in America." Our subject in the now is the classic western that features an enigmatic cast, fantastic staging of s
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With Oliver Stone Directing a Controversial Subject, I Sometimes Expect the Worst Understandably so, due to the fact that Director Stone is decidedly, vocally and irrevocably ultra liberal in his views, political and otherwise. Also understanding that ultra liberals have spewed so much venomous rage
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Dante's Inferno or Ultra Violent Science Fiction: No Difference Director Simon Hunter and Screenwriter Philip Eisner drive this blood soaked sci-fi horror motion picture headlong into a limited number of United States theaters, searching for an audience that crave an improbable, but fantastic story
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Flash of Genius This is an important little film, even though at some moments, it is like watching paint dry in the 119 minutes it took to tell this tale. That said, "Flash of Genius" is well acted in all of the central roles, while telling an inspirational story of the little guy chasing equity, re
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Unforgiven is the Minimalist's Approach to Producing a Classic Western Clint Eastwood put on his director's cap and actor's battered stetson and filmed one of the finest Westerns ever made. The film was released in 1992, and qualified for that years Academy Awards. It was nominated for 9 Oscars and
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Bedtime Stories This may eventually become a significant children's movie, but I doubt it. Instead, what we have been served up is another formulaic Happy Madison production that is not rooted in reality, so the fantasy scenes ring hollow, shallow and uninspiring. The fantasy may work for some child
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Not unlike the dying process, Ben Thomas' emotional well being is shutting down, and the only way he can resurrect it is to surrender to the penance, that he believes he owes humanity.
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A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. The first film of the "Twilight" series.
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Transporter 3 Jason Statham put his "butt-kicking" franchise on the line in "Transporter 3;" however, it was not enough to save this high energy, "low-brow" movie. Director Olivier Megaton got the action scenes right. The problem is: he got the rest of the movie wrong. The story and the dialogue wer
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"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament, is etched in my subconscious as I reconsider Stanley Kubrick's grim satirical
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