Monthly Archives: July 2007

The Postman

Posted on July 29, 2007

This 1997 flick starring Kevin Costner shares a number of things with quite a few other of his big budget actioners; its commercial failure, coming right after box office bombs like Tin Cup and (especially) Waterworld (reputed to be more … Continue reading →

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Why We Fight

Posted on July 21, 2007

A powerful, award-winning exploration of the American involvement in Iraq by Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight (2005) applies inspiration from Frank Capra’s World War II motivational films and President Eisenhower’s farewell address that gave us the term military-industrial complex to … Continue reading →

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My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Posted on July 16, 2007

Ivan Reitman has directed many funny movies, including Stripes, both Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Junior and Dave and writer Don Payne comes out of the Simpsons camp (and also co-wrote this summer’s F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer) so the … Continue reading →

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Essex Boys

Posted on July 15, 2007

BBC America had this 2000 mobster flick on their Brit Movie night last Sunday. It’s got Sean Bean, Alex Kingston and Tom Wilkerson in what I saw posited as an English Goodfellas, and I loves me my Goodfellas. In the … Continue reading →

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Thank You for Smoking

Posted on July 15, 2007

I read Christopher Buckley’s novel from which this movie came and though the film isn’t bad the book was better. Probably Aaron Eckhart, who plays Nick Naylor, the lead, is just a tad too bright and shiny compared to my … Continue reading →

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The Astronaut's Wife

Posted on July 15, 2007

Going against my previous thinking that this 1999 Johnny Depp/Charlize Theron movie wasn’t worth watching, I gave it a spin yesterday. Sadly, I should have stuck with my original thought because writer/director Rand Ravich clearly did a better job pitching … Continue reading →

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Judge Dredd

Posted on July 14, 2007

This 1995 flick, which I watched the other day since it was on the HD On Demand list, is a fun adaptation of a longrunning British comic that works for me mainly because director Danny Cannon keeps each scene to … Continue reading →

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Rope

Posted on July 14, 2007

A 1948 classic psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock starring Bill favorite James Stewart along with John Dall and a young Farley Granger, Rope is a take on the sensational 1924 murder case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Hitchcock does … Continue reading →

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The Devil Wears Prada

Posted on July 13, 2007

This is a fun Saturday night cable movie. Not one I’d have been happy to pay $10 each to see in the theater but the colorful fashionistas do look really good on our HDTV screen. Star Anne Hathaway’s made several … Continue reading →

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Live Free or Die Hard

Posted on July 12, 2007

Can you believe it’s been 19 years since we first heard John McClane tell off some baddie with his trademark retort “Yippiekiyay, motherfucker!” right before he blows them to the next life? In 1988 no one outside of academia had … Continue reading →

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