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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s a film that exhibits an all too common tendency in modern Hollywood films. The writers, in this case Elizabeth Meriwether and Michael Samonek, have no clue about real people behave or talk. Very little in No Strings Attached rings true.
Emma (Natalie Portman) and […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Burt Reynolds
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What is a real man?
According to Sharky’s Machine, it’s someone who has Cro-Magnon ideas about women, is protective of them, is willing to get his fists bloody (and sometimes enjoys it), drinks beer instead of wine, doesn’t scream when he’s tortured, and is […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Fantasy/ Suspense
Director: George Nolfi
Year: 2011
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
It’s difficult to come up with more than a handful of movies that explore the relationship between (the Christian) God’s omnipotence, his plan, free will, and the problem of evil. There’s Bruce Almighty, but it mostly functions as an Christian apologia, a way […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/Suspense/Romance
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Not long ago, I reviewed the French movie The Tourist is based on, Anthony Zimmer, in these pages. More often than not, when a foreign movie is remade as an American movie, everything that was special about the original is excised or dumbed down. […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Shawn Levy
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
As far as I can tell, the key to enjoying Date Night, a story about a boring New Jersey couple, is being half of such a couple yourself.
Many reviewers have pointed out that there is little that is wildly funny, creative, or thrilling […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Andy Tennant
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Full disclosure: I’m heartily sick of American romantic comedies in which the male is a boor and the woman is intelligent and sexy. The guy proves over and over that he’s isn’t worthy to lick the undersides of her shoes, but in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Action/ Mainstream
Director: Michael Mann
Year: 2009
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I would classify Public Enemies as a failure, but a noble one. Director Michael Mann is nothing if not ambitious. He has obviously taken great care to include as many real locations as possible. He’s also included many fascinating details about John […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Getaway is something a little different from Sam Peckinpah. There’s action in it, but it’s not really an action movie. It’s mostly about the stresses put on the relationship between Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) and Carol McCoy (Ali MacGraw).
The opening […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1966
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Torn Curtain shows a lamentable lack of judgement from the normally reliable Alfred Hitchcock.
Would you believe Paul Newman as a nuclear physicist? Me either. I love Paul Newman, but he’s working class all the way, not an intellectual. Why did Hitchcock cast him?
Well, it […]
