Monthly Archives: January 2007

New York Doll

Posted on January 24, 2007

While the band was incredibly influential after blasting onto the rock stage in the early ’70s, the New York Dolls came along about two or three years too soon for me to really have gotten into them and by the … Continue reading →

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Everything is Illuminated

Posted on January 22, 2007

This seemed like the kind of small quirky film that I enjoy so when TiVo grabed it for me a second time I watched. Sadly, this is a bad small quirky film so I hit delete after about 30 minutes. … Continue reading →

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Firewall

Posted on January 21, 2007

Harrison Ford compares well with, say, Tom Cruise when it comes to this kind of movie (or most kinds, probably) even if at about 62 when filming happened he’s getting a little long in the tooth to be a daddy … Continue reading →

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Deep Impact

Posted on January 21, 2007

I’ve always had fond memories of this 1998 movie, which suffered by being released in close proximity to the very similar but more traditional action and star-oriented Armageddon. Not to mention that Willis, Affleck and Company had the Muzak Aerosmith … Continue reading →

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Havoc

Posted on January 21, 2007

Anne Hathaway presumably saw Havoc, with two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple directing (Best Documentary in 1991 for American Dream and 1977 for Harlan County, USA) and a script from Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan (Traffic), as a sure path … Continue reading →

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Last Action Hero

Posted on January 21, 2007

I always thought Schwarzenegger’s 1993 action farce was vastly underrated, especially when considered as a set with True Lies. Of course, I could be mistaking the accidental achievements of the many chefs who had a hand in this entree, between … Continue reading →

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Four Brothers

Posted on January 21, 2007

Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000 of rap supergroup Outkast) and Grant Hedlund play (somewhat) grownup brothers adopted as hellraising kids by neighborhood saint Fionnula Flanagan; the movie opens with Flanagan being gunned down in a grocery store … Continue reading →

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Posted on January 21, 2007

Fans of Roald Dahl, who wrote the novel, have generally never been happy with the 1971 Gene Wilder version released as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory because–as happened with so many of Dahl’s stories–the movie manicured off his slightly … Continue reading →

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Munich

Posted on January 7, 2007

The massacre of nine Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics was both a tragedy and turning point in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians; whatever else it generated, the world’s perception of the war against israel … Continue reading →

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Ultraviolet

Posted on January 4, 2007

I had a bit more hopes for this Mila Jovovich actioner and since it was the first new Starz early premiere in HD after we got our 37″ LCD we gave Ultraviolet a shot. Although its visually stunning and the … Continue reading →

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