reviews of movies we haven’t seen

Errol Morris and his crew spent two years working on this Abu Ghraib documentary, gathering “a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs.”
They also say that the story is “shrouded in moral ambiguity”, that they are “still learning about it,” and that the “underlying [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Documentary.
Comments: 2
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever because it was directed by celebrated indie director Jon Favreau, who is usually known for directing smaller, more heady films like Elf. You also might know him from indie TV shows like Friends and that show where he eats with celebrities.
Iron Man [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under Action/Adventure.
Comments: 1
The Golden Compass
How She Move
27 Dresses
Nanking
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under This Week On DVD.
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As you can probably guess from the title, A Plumm Summer is the true-life tale of a frog puppet that was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Fonzie in a way that would make Little Jack Horner blush.
Posted: April 27th, 2008 under Family.
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Listen, I would really like to review Deal for you, but I got all distracted by visiting the Deal website. First I couldn’t stop looking at this picture:
and then I couldn’t stop reading Burt Reynolds’ bio, which trumpets that his “commitment to his profession and devotion to education can perhaps best be exemplified by [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Drama.
Comments: 1
In Bomb It, writer/director Jon Reiss makes the case that graffiti art has just as rich a history, and is just as valid, as any other kind of art that can be marketed with big fake melons.
Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Documentary.
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Oh, man.
Do you remember Cheech And Chong Go To Dachau? Now that was a stoner comedy. My sides still ache from malnutrition.
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 under Comedy.
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Cloverfield
The Savages
The Blair Monster Project
One Missed Call
The Orphanage (El Orfanato)
Charlie Wilson’s War
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under This Week On DVD.
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As you might guess from the title, this is a gory horror movie.
It’s about these evil triplets who turn people’s brains into mush.
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Documentary, Horror, Musical.
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Do you remember that guy who pissed off his girlfriend by purposely getting really fat and gross so that he could show how fattening food makes you fat get famous?
His plan totally worked! He got famous and got money before she figured out what an asshole he was!
He got the last laugh though because after [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Documentary.
Comments: 1