Category: Movie Reviews
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Freakonomics DVD Review
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2009 Directors: Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Seth Gordon, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing Based on the book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Ever since Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine proved that documentaries could not only be provocative and entertaining but bring in the Box Office bucks, we’ve enjoyed a torrent of…
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment DVD Review
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1966 Director: Karel Reisz Script: David Mercer Cast: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw This movie adaptation of David Mercer’s televised play, for which Vanessa Redgrave received a Best Actress Award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, is a cult classic that appears to have been overlooked while all manner of…
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Carlos: The Trilogy DVD Review
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2010 Director: Olivier Assayas Script: Dan Franck, Olivier Assayas Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach, Susanne Wuest, Anna Thalbach, Julia Hummer Sidestepping the controversy that Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network script recently attracted, Carlos begins with a disclaimer informing us that it’s purely a work of fiction based on real…
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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction DVD Review
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Released 18th October 2010 by Optimum Home Entertainment Director: Kevin Hamedani Cast: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl and Cooper Hopkins Script: Kevin Hamedani, Ramon Isao It’s probably best not to settle down to a film titled Zombies of Mass Destruction expecting Citizen Kane. Or even George A. Romero, for that matter. But this admirably earnest little…
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The Brothers Bloom DVD Review
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2009, Optimum Home Entertainment Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi Script: Rian Johnson You have to admire writer/director Rian Johnson’s propensity for overreaching. His first movie, Brick, was a high school murder mystery which channelled the noir sensibilities of Hammett and Chandler, and even if its askew…
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Mother (2009) DVD Review
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2009 Director: Bong Joon-ho Script: Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo Cast: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned in this peculiar South Korean film from Bong Joon-ho, the director of The Host. While this quiet tale of a woman intent on proving her son’s innocence after he’s convicted of…
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed Film Review
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2009 Director, Writer: J Blakeson Cast: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan Like criminals Vic and Danny upon the unsuspecting Alice, The Disappearance of Alice Creed creeps up on its unsuspecting audience. Director J Blakeson’s low budget debut opens with two nondescript males (Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston) silently shopping for tools, lining the inside…
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Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Review
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2008, Optimum Home Entertainment Director: Jérôme Salle Writer: Julien Rappeneau Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélanie Thierry, Bojana Panic, Karel Roden, Miki Manojlovic, Benedict Wong With western economies still struggling to recover from one of the fiercest recessions in the last hundred years, Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge, the movie adaptation of the popular billionaire…