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Rachel Getting Married
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:273 ]
Review: Rachel Getting Married is a film by Oscar-winning director, Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), starring Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt. The lead pair are sisters with a history of sibling rivalry. Hathaway plays Kym, who has just been through a serious stint at rehab, while DeWitt is Rachel, her older sister who is about to be married. The two have excellent chemistry, which translates into a shared history - and they even look related. The casting was key in this relationship and Rosema...
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Rainbow Skellums
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:1263 ]
Review: Rainbow Skellums is the latest candid camera phenomenon to hit South Africa, produced, written and directed by Andre Scholtz (Panic Mechanic) and starring Louw Venter (T.M.A.S), Kevin Ehrenreich and Alexa Strachan. Leon Schuster is the Godfather of candid comedy in South Africa with his off-the-cuff, on-the-spot and distinctly South African disguise comedy, which is all about reeling the target in and catching the big one. Schuster's You Must Be Joking and Panic Mechanic eptiomise this brand of ...
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Rango
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Review: Did you get a slightly uneasy feeling when you discovered Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was a Disney movie? Mild surprise may be a better description, well - you may have experienced a similar feeling when you found that Captain Jack Sparrow, better known as Johnny Depp, is Rango. That's right... the coolest actor in Hollywood, famed as a clumsy pirate is a swashbuckling "lizard".Just when you thought he couldn't possibly do anything without Tim Burton's permission, he un...
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Real Steel
[ Hits:187 ]
Review: If you can adapt a theme park ride into a billion dollar blockbuster franchise about a drunken pirate holidaying in the Caribbean, you can adapt just about anything. That's how we got Real Steel, a film producers will vehemently defend against anyone claiming it's an adaptation of the iconic tabletop boxing game, Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em.
Robot Jox was the original robot fighting adaptation and while slightly more complex than Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em... came at a time when the advances of CGI were very 19...
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Red
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:531 ]
Review: Stallone surprised us when he resurrected Rocky with Rocky Balboa, stunned us when he tied the red hair band on for John Rambo and nearly killed himself trying to make The Expendables. Broken neck aside... Stallone pulled it off - he made us believe with that sixty-something-year-old-six-pack, the big knives and ultra-violent action set pieces. Personally, I blame Harrison Ford for sparking the vicious trend that 60-something-year-olds can do their own stunts as he donned the fedora and whip onc...
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Religulous
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:226 ]
Review: Religulous is a documentary written and starring stand-up comedian Bill Maher, and directed by Larry Charles (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazhakstan). Good documenatries always take a perspective, and the angle of Religulous is that of Atheism. One could even dub Religulous as more Borat than Michael Moore. Bill Maher was brought up as a devout Catholic and his mother is Jewish. One can see how plenty of his irreverant comic material actually stems fr...
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Repo Men
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:370 ]
Review: Repo Men is based on the novel, The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Repo Men. It's a science fiction exploration of what the world would be like if medical agencies sold manufactured bio-mechanical organs with a severe repayment scheme - think credit card companies. The Repo Men are the final notice... cold, calculated surgeons who hunt down bad debtors like vermin, extracting their organs for reconditioning and in most cases leaving their customers in a b...
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Resident Evil: Afterlife [3D]
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:435 ]
Review: Resident Evil... Milla Jovovich... zombies... in Real 3D, it's any gamer's dream come true. The fourth installation of arguably the most successful video game film adaptation of all-time is delivered in true style courtesy of Death Race writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson. These days, trilogies just aren't enough for franchises and it seems like a good time to resurrect just about any popular character from the past. The difference with Resident Evil is that it's following in the wake of the game...
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Revolutionary Road
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:284 ]
Review: Revolutionary Road is a film that trails in the wake of American Beauty. One could even see Revolutionary Road as a prequel to American Beauty. Sam Mendes follows in the same direction as his Oscar-winning Best Picture, but incorporates his leading lady and wife, Kate Winslet. Instead of delivering the undercurrents of contemporary American suburbia, he focuses on ’50s “Pleasantville” with a magnifying glass. The Wheelers are his ants in this story, and their lives are examined within the ...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
[ Hits:417 ]
Review: When you heard that they were releasing a prequel to Planet of the Apes you probably slapped your hand to your forehead. Not only was Tim Burton's attempt at a reboot to the Planet of the Apes franchise a misfire, the movie title is laughable as if Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans never happened!?In science-fiction, it's usually robots doing the uprising. Planet of the Apes takes an evolu...
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Rize
[ 2005 ] [ Hits:373 ]
Review: Rize is a documentary that covers the new urban dance culture emerging from South Central gangland. The documentary makes some interesting parallels between the new, angry, identity-driven street dancing with riots from the past, and African tribal dance culture. Rize starts with something of a disclaimer saying that none of the footage was sped up in the making of the film. It’s exactly the impression you get, watching the fast paced dance movements from the dancers. The actions are powerful,...
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Robin Hood
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:484 ]
Review: Apparently, any film starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott can’t go wrong. Having collaborated on Gladiator, A Good Year, American Gangster and Body of Lies, it’s safe to say they’ve got a winning formula. The film rides on the back of almost a century of Robin Hoods ranging from Robin Hood (1912) to this latest bankable venture from Crowe and Scott in 2010, aptly titled Robin Hood.Robin Hoods outnumber James Bonds in Hollywood with some of the most famous Hoods including: ...
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RocknRolla
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:285 ]
Review: RocknRolla is classic Guy Ritchie. After a lapse in filmic enterprise, the hotshot British director has made a stylised return to the days of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Ritchie’s trademark subject matter and comedic crime escapade oozes cool. Gerard Butler (300) and Tom Wilkinson ensure that RocknRolla has all the juice it needs, and Thandie Newton, Mark Strong and Jeremy Piven drive this point home. Underground crime syndicate, rich Russian property developers, junkies an...
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Rogue
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:291 ]
Review: Rogue is writer, director and producer Greg Mclean’s second horror movie and third film. Wolf Creek told the story of several backpackers, who were abducted by a murderous hunter. The horror was devastating and brutal, which only heightened the terror of it being based on a true story. The twinge of reality strikes again in Rogue, in which a 7 metre crocodile takes the place of the real-life monster. Mclean creates a nuanced horror that is riddled with a deep understanding of the human conditi...
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Rogue Assassin
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:312 ]
Review: Rogue Assassin was released in the U.S. as War, and it’s pretty easy to see why. Jason Statham action-extraordinaire and martial arts legend Jet Li go head-to-head in the biggest movie rivalry since Freddy vs. Jason. These action superheroes bring two diverse groups of fans together to find out who’s king of adrenalin as FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) pursues the mysterious and deadly “Rogue” (Li) for personal reasons, while the “Rogue” incites clashes between the Yukuza and Triad...
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