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Remaking The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m not a big fan of remakes. Oh sure, some are good. John Houston’s 1941 The Maltese Falcon comes to mind, since it was the fourth try to get it right. But I’m...
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Paper Man: Blu-ray
Since the theatrical release of Paper Man only grossed $15,388 (no, there are no zeros missing) I’m guessing that you didn’t see get a chance this film in the theater so you’re going to have to rent...
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Water for Elephants: Blu-ray
“They don’t make’em like they used to”— cliche about movies being made today Well, that’s obviously not true: Case in point Water for Elephants, a delightful throwback to the potboiler melodramas of...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Blu-ray
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is another attempt to reboot the Planet of the Apes franchise after the Tim Burton (2001) remake. Yet at the same time it is a remake (no matter who may deny that) of J....
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LA Confidential: Blu-ray
Curtis Hanson’s LA Confidential (1997) is a masterpiece of modern film noir in so many more ways than Brian DePalma’s The Black Dahlia is not. Both are based on long, rambling but brilliant novels from...
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Killer Elite: Blu-ray
Let’s get this out of the way first: Killer Elite (2011) is not a re-make of Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975.) It’s a completely different film and instead was based on a 1991 novel called The...
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is getting a lot of positive buzz from critics and fans alike and I expected (since you know I like Asian cinema) to love it too. But I don’t. OK, I...
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Moneyball and the Oscars
Let’s cut to the chase: Run out to the nearest Red Box and rent Moneyball. Yeah, it’s that good. And as good as Brad Pitt is in the role of Billy Beane, the movie’s star is really Bennett Miller who...
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Anonymous: Shakespeare in Blu-ray
With a production of cost of $30 million (director Roland Emmerich calls Anonymous a “low budget” movie and I guess it was compared to his other films) and with a US gross of $4,463,292 chances are...
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Home on the Range, Where the Deer and ET’s play
Cowboys and Aliens answers the question—that nobody asked—of what happens when you mix Bat Masterson (with Gene Barry) with War of the Worlds (with Gene Barry.) This movie is one of those great...
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