Monthly Archives: January 2005

Out of Time

Posted on January 30, 2005

Denzel Washington has spent years building a critical reputation and box office success; he’s one of those (relatively) rare people whose name on the marquee pretty much guarantees a decent opening weekend gross. But over time I believe he’s realized, … Continue reading →

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Little Odessa

Posted on January 26, 2005

I’m definitely a Tim Roth fan. He generally does interesting, off the main track characters. I’d never seen Little Odessa but remembered reading positive reviews from 1994 when it was in theaters, so chalk up another reasonable plus for Tivo … Continue reading →

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Dirty War

Posted on January 25, 2005

HBO, BBC and PBS collaborated in producing a 90 minute film depicting the members of an Islamic terrorist group as they develop and explode a dirty bomb, a conventional explosive with some radioactive material above the explosive. Parallelling the fundamentalist, … Continue reading →

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The Rundown

Posted on January 23, 2005

The Rock is starting to show real acting ability, first in The Scorpion King and now in 2003′s The Rundown, with more than just action chops; I’m looking forward to his performance as a gay bodyguard/aspiring singer in the upcoming … Continue reading →

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The Cooler

Posted on January 16, 2005

Vegas is a changed city; from the ’50s through the late ’80s/early ’90s it was THE place to go for adult entertainment and kids were a nuisance best left home with Grandma. Steve Wynn, who’d grown up partly in the … Continue reading →

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Sin noticias de Dios (Don't Tempt Me)

Posted on January 13, 2005

A Spanish movie released in 2001, Sin noticias de Dios (titled Don’t Tempt Me in this subtitled English version) is a conflation of the end of the world and love triangle in a humorous vein written and directed by Agustin … Continue reading →

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The Station Agent

Posted on January 12, 2005

I was expecting more from this odd little movie about a dwarf named Fin (Peter Dinklage) whose careful life, small in an oddly similar way to his own body, is disrupted when his boss dies and the Hoboken building housing … Continue reading →

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In the Cut

Posted on January 6, 2005

This 2003 film was really beaten up by critics and a box office failure. The hype was all about Meg Ryan playing against type, not at all the sweet pretty thing she’s done over and over again, and even (finally) … Continue reading →

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Sip si 32 doe

Posted on January 4, 2005

Released in America with the title Beyond Hypothermia, 1996 Korean gangster flick Sip si 32 doe faces off an emotionless female assassin (Wu Chin Lin) and a passionate Korean mobster (Han Sang Woo), with a seemingly witless noodle vendor caught … Continue reading →

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Dirty Deeds

Posted on January 1, 2005

I should know by now that seeing John Goodman listed in the credits is a near perfect indicator that I am going to end up not enjoing a film. This is true even when the film is set in Australia, … Continue reading →

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