reviews of movies we haven’t seen

In Italy, he would be known as nuovolupo. In Spain, lobonuevo. In Russia, unpronounceable. But to fans of the ass-kicking monster with the wide green eyes and hunger for the flavor of precambain man meat, Beo Wolf’s name can mean only one thing: enemy of the people. Before emerging from the depths of the soup-dark forest to [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2007 under Action/Adventure, Adult.
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We all know the Harry Potter story: young man from a broken home, early life of petty crime, in and out of juvenile detention facilities. But this time he meets Professor Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), a wealthy childless older man who recognizes enough of himself in the youth to take him in and teach him [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2007 under Action/Adventure, Drama, Family.
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Evening is a movie about that magical time of not night, not day, the interstitial moments populated by lightning-bugs and the coolness descending. I remembered while not seeing this movie a moment when the orange sun had faded the clouds to bright pink and I felt free—the bounds of earth had loos’d. What magic is [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Drama, Family, Fantasy.
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Do you know what the number one killer of men is? It’s not drunk-driving accidents or post-vacation syphilis—it’s heart disease. In fact, heart disease kills an estimated 5,000 men every hour in this country, more than autoerotic asphyxiation and lightning strikes combined. It’s a serious topic, one that deserves more than it’s given in this [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under Comedy, Foreign.
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What do these items have in common: a big revolving tube that speaks whale, a big square filled with half-human androids, nuclear war, and an asteroid the size of texas? You got it, all things that have threatened to destroy the planet. Where they didn’t succeed with all their enormous size or massive firepower or [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama.
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In “Knocked Up,” Seth Rogen plays a man with a contract out on his head, and the only thing that will stop the ruthless gang of Albanian mafia that pursues him is winning a boxing match with an adolescent girl with Down Syndrome. He thinks it’ll be a piece of cake. But he discovers quickly [...]
Posted: June 6th, 2007 under Action/Adventure, Comedy.
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