Monthly Archives: April 2004

Man on Fire

Posted on April 28, 2004

Key comment from LordB while watching Man on Fire: This movie is so slow we can sit here doing play by play and not miss a thing. Tony Scott is a veteran director with plenty of taut thrillers in his … Continue reading →

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Posted on April 25, 2004

Romantic comedy isn’t easy. There are far too many ways to fall into cliches, to make plot movements through a simple wave of the hands or lose it by poor casting of the loving couple. How to Lose a Guy … Continue reading →

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A Guy Thing

Posted on April 17, 2004

If you take nothing else away from this movie, you will know without a doubt that Julia Stiles at 21 was gorgeous and will only get more so over the next two decades. She just has one of those faces … Continue reading →

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The Long Kiss Goodnight

Posted on April 11, 2004

Renny Harlin and Shane Black were clearly going for an over the top, cartoon-level action flick in this 1996 outing. Consider just three bits: “Life is pain, get used to it,” Geena Davis tells her daughter after an ice skating … Continue reading →

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Mississippi Burning

Posted on April 10, 2004

Barely 20 years after the events depicted, director Alan Parker made a very courageous movie about the murder of civil rights workers in the Old South. The specific acts are fictionalized but there were so many sad, terrible real events … Continue reading →

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