Monthly Archives: September 2007

The Fountainhead

Posted on September 22, 2007

A 1949 screen interpretation of Ayn Rand’s classic novel starring Gary Cooper and a very young, lovely Patricia O’Neil, I watched this mainly due to the recent publicity surrounding the 50th anniversary of Rand’s other big novel, Atlas Shrugged, and … Continue reading →

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Casanova

Posted on September 22, 2007

An enjoyable historical romantic comedy based on a fabricated episode of a very young Giacomo Casanova set in Venice in the mid-1700s, this Heath Ledger-Sienna Miller 2005 film from Lasse Hallstrom uses the legendary Lothario as an exploration of the … Continue reading →

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The Brave One

Posted on September 20, 2007

On a hot summer night in Manhattan two women are attacked, separately, and end up in the same Intensive Care unit. One lives, barely, though her fiance died at the hands of three Hispanic gangbangers and the other dies, purportedly … Continue reading →

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Tobruk

Posted on September 4, 2007

In 1942 the German army in North Africa led by Field Marshall Rommel was kicking Allied booty, to say the least, and so the Western powers decided to try a sleight of hand approach to cutting Rommel’s attack capability by … Continue reading →

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Posted on September 3, 2007

Based on the classic John Le Carre novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold strikes me as perhaps the first major feature film taking an overtly cynical posture on the way intelligence agencies on both sides of the … Continue reading →

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The 6th Day

Posted on September 3, 2007

After 20 years, his producers seemed to be having trouble coming up with new big action thrillers for Arnold Schwarzenegger; this 2000 release was the next to last one he made except for the third Terminator, which I don’t count … Continue reading →

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Aeon Flux

Posted on September 3, 2007

Less than a decade from now, a lab-created virus is unleashed and decimates the human population; only a few million of us survive, all of whom live in a single city governed by the sons of Dr. Goodchild, the scientist … Continue reading →

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War

Posted on September 2, 2007

Teaming up for the second time, Jet Li and Jason Stathem are the opponents in a movie that matches the latest trends in extreme violence. FBI agent Hank Crawford (Stathem) gets in the middle of a war between a Triad … Continue reading →

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