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Take Me Home Tonight
[ Hits:144 ]
Review: Take Me Home Tonight is an '80s style comedy romance starring Topher Grace, Teresa Palmer, Dan Fogler and Anna Faris in a very low-key role. Topher Grace, best known for his lead role in That '70s Show, does what he does best... playing the nice guy who doesn't want to finish last. He's a good-looking manboy, so why doesn't he deserve a shot at love in acne-free later life. When his sister's boyfriend holds a much-anticipated house party, Matt (Grace) takes a shot at Tori (Palmer), his high scho...
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Taken
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:246 ]
Review: Taken is a thriller that moves at a frenetic pace… as a former government agent takes revenge on the underground human trafficking organization that kidnapped her. He has a 96 hour window to find his missing daughter and uses his vast experience of secretive ops and network of contacts to track them down. Taken’s Pierre Morel (Banlieue 13) features as director, and it’s hard to believe this is only his second film. He and Besson proved that their writer-director partnership was gold in Dis...
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Taking Woodstock
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:330 ]
Review: Taking Woodstock is an account of how one Elliot Teichberg (Martin) inadvertently set the wheels in motion for Woodstock, the generation-defining concert of 1969. However, this is not a docudrama about the festival, it's an emotional journey and coming-of-age drama as young Elliot matures into a man. Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee, composes a textured drama about the prolific 3-day music festival taken from the perspective of one "square" young man. Elliot's Russian immigrant ...
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Talk to Me
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:335 ]
Review: Talk to Me is one of those movies that just had to be made, and Petey Green was one of those extraordinary people that deserves the recognition. He led a fascinating life that only really came into its own, when he had a mouthpiece. It didn’t matter if it was a microphone, a loudspeaker or a talk show… the man told it like it was. It didn’t matter if ‘keeping it real’ was unpopular as long as it was his truth. Green’s prolific life was all about hard-living and he was a ‘miscreantâ...
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Tangled
[ Hits:299 ]
Review: Disney have usurped our childhoods... systematically converting every fairy tale into a Disney classic and making it difficult to imagine fairy tales any different. Then a former Disney animator, Tim Burton, has been entrusted with stealing our adult nostalgia by revamping classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. Pixar show that fresh new ideas do exist with films like WALL-E, Ratatouille and Up... which is why they're at the top of the food chain. Until recently,...
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Terminator Salvation
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:313 ]
Review: Terminator Salvation is directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol, better known as McG, a music-video-turn-movie-director responsible for the bopping Charlie’s Angels and more mature We Are Marshall. McG has got definite style and knows how to rock the party with some killer action sequences. He’s aided by cult sensation and new Batman, Christian Bale, whose performances are characterised by pop culture undertones and a deep reverence for Hollywood’s finest moments. The Terminator franchise was le...
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The 11th Hour
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:375 ]
Review: First of all, The 11th Hour is a documentary and not an asteroid action film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Stephen Hawking. DiCaprio is open about his political views and is championing the cause together with Al Gore. This is probably why The 11th Hour was lambasted as ‘liberal propaganda’ by many Americans. Watching The 11th Hour from a non-American point-of-view doesn’t have this effect. Some of the world’s leading authorities and most brilliant minds gather together to voice their c...
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The A Team
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:485 ]
Review: Screw G.I. Joe, The A-Team are the quintessential All-American action heroes from the '80s... destined to be everybody's favourite crack commando squad of mercenaries from now until the end of time. I can tell... I had a Murdock action figure (don't judge me). Action, adventure, comedy and mild peril... The A-Team had it all and who can forget Hannibal Smith's wise-cracks, disguises and cigar-champing, B.A.'s ingenuity, mohawk and bling, Murdock's voices, madcap antics and crazy eyes or Faceman'...
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The Adjustment Bureau
[ Hits:373 ]
Review: Movie trailer voice: "David Norris is about to see something no one is supposed to see. Once you know their secret you become their target. The Adjustment Bureau." It's tragic when a brilliant concept doesn't measure up to its full potential. This is the case in The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt...Some of The Adjustment Bureau movie trailers would have you believe that you were in for a classic piece of mystery science-fiction in the style of an Alfred Hitchcock man-on-the-ru...
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The Adventures of Tintin
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Review: The nostalgic The Adventures of Tintin animation series by Herge gave Belgium another famous fictional personality other than Poirot, one whose agenda often involved political conspiracy and espionage. The graphic novels have entertained their readers, delivering a soft James Bond meets Poirot type character in elaborate situations with freedom of imagination.Tintin wouldn't be Tintin without its iconic array of lovable characters: Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thomson & Thompson, Nes...
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The American
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:422 ]
Review: Bill Murray played the 'American' in Jim Jarmusch's pretentious art house "thriller", The Limits of Control, the story of a mysterious stranger in the process of completing a job. What has this got to do with The American? Well, firstly the title shares a connection with Bill Murray's character in The Limits of Control. Secondly, renowned music video director, Anton Corbijn is probably most famous for his film about Joy Division's Ian Curtis called Control. So there are two contact points of int...
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The Assassination of Jesse James
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:321 ]
Review: The Assassination of Jesse James is a beautiful Western from Andrew Dominik (Chopper). Dominik adapts Hansen’s book into a vivid story about heroics and cowardice from the perspective of Robert Ford (Affleck). Young Robert Ford hero worships Jesse James and grows to resent his outlaw hero as he stuggles to join the gang. The script is written with authentic language and lyrical narration. The actors harness the Missouri accents with relative ease and develop full-bodied characters. Casey Affle...
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
[ Hits:352 ]
Review: The Baader Meinhof Complex is a relentless film, which brings the era and conquests of Germany’s Red Army Faction terrorist group to life. The well-researched account is dramatised showing a post-war Germany struggling to find its feet in a new democracy. The youth have their backs to the Nazi regime, fearing the enemy inside and taking action against American imperialists during the Vietnam War. Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is based on the book by Stefan Aust and directed by Uli Edel, whose car...
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The Back up Plan
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:496 ]
Review: So far, we've established that Jennifer Lopez can actually act, dance and sing. However, her talent and charisma is very difficult to unearth in her latest outing, The Back-up Plan. This is one of those movies that should come with a complimentary sick bag. It's the kind of romantic comedy schlock that airs because of its star power and not for its content, which is disposable and embarrassing for all involved including the audience.The most immediate thing you'll notice about The Back-up Plan i...
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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:390 ]
Review: It's really difficult to comment on Werner Herzog's latest offering, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. First off, the title should alert you to the fact that this is a send up of the cop crime genre, which is not to be confused with Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992) starring Harvey Keitel. Both focus on a bad cop with a drug addiction, are based on the same script but are made with different intentions. Herzog has made a name for himself as a daring and unorthodox director with fi...
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The Bang Bang Club
[ Hits:264 ]
Review: The Bang Bang Club is the story of four conflict photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva, in the build-up to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. These high profile photographers were like soldiers, their weapons - cameras and their ammo - extra spools. As South African photo journalists, they were on the forefront of a civil war, one being fought in areas known as "dead zones" between two warring political parties. Fearless sometimes foolish, ...
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The Black Dahlia
[ 2006 ] [ Hits:338 ]
Review: The Black Dahlia is a Film Noir piece based on James Ellroy’s novel, and directed by Brian de Palma (The Untouchables, Scarface, Carlito’s Way). The Black Dahlia boasts a fresh talent cast including Josh Harnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank. The performances are overshadowed by the cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond, which was nominated for an Oscar. It’s set in the 1940s and two boxers are partnered as cops after a big fight. A love triangle develops between Dwight â...
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The Blind Side
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:359 ]
Review: Some Hollywood stories are too good to be true and some are too true to be good. This is why The Blind Side succeeds. It's a true story, which mimics Hollywood's underdog story convention, while portraying a convincing, believable and much publicized rise to fame. Sandra Bullock's Oscar-winning performance may overshadow the film, but it all started with the amazing true story of Michael Oher.Oher, conveniently referred to as "Big Mike", was a giant of a kid. His appearance and presence was bot...
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The Boat That Rocked
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:347 ]
Review: The Boat That Rocked is an anti-establishment period comedy tribute to Rock ‘n Roll and the heyday of Britpop in the ‘60s, written and directed by Richard Curtis (Love, Actually). Just like America has Good Morning Vietnam with Robin Williams, Britain has The Boat That Rocked a feel-good film with not 1 but 8 DJs, based on actual events involving an illegal DJ-infested boat broadcasting from the North Sea.The cast (or crew in this case) are championed by Bill Nighy, Phillip Seymour Hoffm...
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The Book of Eli
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:431 ]
Review: I know I’m stating the obvious here, but Denzel Washington is not Mr. T. They act, dress and talk differently… Mr. T carries that Mad Max era cool like someone before their time and while he’s been off the Hollywood scene beating Cancer and endorsing cooking gadgets in an apron, this could have been his defining Tarantino Phoenix Performance… (just made it up, roll with it). Yet, the title character role in The Book of Eli still went to Denzel… FOOLS!I know it would be difficult to get...
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