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Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 2006 If I were to say that I had not laughed like this since I saw ‘Meet the Parents’ and ‘There is Something About Mary” I would be doing this movie a disservice, even if the statement is true. There is no doubt that this movie [...]
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Director: Paul Greengrass Genre: Drama/History Year: 2006 Given the nature of the subject, writer and director Paul Greengrass made the bold call that Oliver Stone was unable to do with World Trade Center. Actually, having only seen the previews (and really with no desire beyond that to see the movie) I can tell two calls [...]
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Director: Ricardo de Montreuil Genre: Drama Year: 2005 Just as I had gotten done ripping on Lion’s Gate for their inconsistency in product, I am forced to kind of eat my words. As it turns out this movie, which I had anticipated for a while (now available in DVD) is a Lion’s Gate film (distributed [...]
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Director: Andrew Niccol Genre: Crime/Drama Year: 2005 Lions Gate Films, to me, is a tricky company. They do not seem to have the consistency of say…Focus Features. They will heavily focus on slasher and horror films some of which are good, most of which are not, and then they will come up with very interesting [...]
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Director: Fruit Chan (segment “Dumplings”), Chan-wook Park (segment “Cut”), Takashi Miike (segment “Box”) Genre: Horror Year: 2004 I had my eyes set on this movie since I first saw the preview for it loooong ago. In fact, I actually saw this movie a while ago also, but I somehow managed to forget to write a [...]
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Director: Woody Allen Genre: Crime/Drama/Romance Year: 2005 This, to me, was a completely unexpected genre coming from Woody Allen, who is much better known for his comedies. This particular moment, does not really have much comedy to it and instead comes across as a…romantic thriller? It is a bit odd pairing those two genres together, [...]
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Director: Prachya Pinkaew Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller/Action/Adventure Year: 2005 Here is the thing, your enjoyment of this movie will largely depend on the expectations you carry into the movie. Unfortunately, most people are talking up this movie based entirely on the actions scenes. I came into it expecting a pretty damned good movie, because everybody is just [...]
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Director: Thomas McCarthy Genre: Comedy/Drama Year: 2003 I love this movie! I absolutely love this movie…subtle in its delivery, but with consistency and always with an eye for quality in just about every aspect of this film from the acting to the cinematography to the storyline to the humor, character development…I am hardpressed to find [...]
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Director: Neil Marshall Genre: Adventure/Thriller/Horror Year: 2005 The problem with this kind of films, is that they all suck. Look at The Cave…the trailer itself was unwatchable and it is an eerily similar premise to the one here, where a group of explorers go down into a cave to find that they are not alone. [...]
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Director: Ziad Doueiri Genre: Drama Year: 2004 Once again Netflix strikes with their deceitful synopsises (synopsoose? Synopsii? Whatever). I am beginning to think that whoever writes those for them, just kind of fast forwards through the movies and writes down the general idea of it, which is often right, and invents the details, which are [...]