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Repo Men

March 21st, 2010

Repo Men is not a sequel to the 1984 movie starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez and really owes more to 2008’s Repo! The Genetic Opera but is actually an adaptation of Eric Garcia’s novel "The Repossession Mambo". Set in the not too distant future medical science has made it possible to drastically extend life through artificial organs. Cornering that market is The Union Company hea ...

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Green Zone

March 14th, 2010

Green Zone was established after the 2003 invasion as a Baghdad American Military safe haven in the immediate vicinity of Saddam’s former palace. In this Matt Damon action thriller activity outside of the Green Zone is not so safe and enemy combatants are not the most lethal adversaries. Damon is Chief Warrant Office Miller repeatedly frustrated with faulty intelligence provided in his unsucc ...

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Fish Tank

March 14th, 2010

Fish Tank stars impressive silver screen neophyte Katie Jarvis as Mia, a fifteen year old with a foul mouth, delinquent attitude and a love for animals and break dancing. She lives in a rundown London suburb with Joanne (Kierston Wareing) her not much older single mother and Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths) her much younger sister. When mom brings home a new boyfriend named Connor (Michael Fassbende ...

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Alice in Wonderland

March 7th, 2010

Alice in Wonderland is the latest from kinky director Tim Burton using advanced digital 3D technology to produce a lush hybrid of Lewis Carroll's beloved stories “Alice through the Looking Glass” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. As with many adaptations in the past, characters are exchanged or blurred like the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts while other characters are introduced like ...

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The Ghost Writer

March 7th, 2010

The Ghost Writer Stars Ewan McGregor as a biographer appropriately unnamed and in over his head when with a lot of cajoling by his friend Sidney Kroll (Timothy Hutton)he’s hired by John Maddox (a hairless Jim Belushi) as the nom de plume for Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) a very Tony Blair like ex British Prime Minister whose former ghost writer is recently quite literally a ghost due to drowning ...

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A Prophet

March 7th, 2010

A Prophet s from France and stars Tahar Rahim as Malik El Djebena, a street level criminal and not even good at that judging from the physical scars he bears. He’s suddenly no longer a juvie and lands a six year stretch in a French maximum security prison which on the surface is remarkably cordial. However there is an underlying power struggle between the dominant Corsicans led by César Lucia ...

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Cop Out

February 28th, 2010

Cop Out shouldn’t be as likeable a formulaic cop action film as it is but when you add Bruce Willis’ Die Hardness to Tracy Morgan’s read-the-phone-book-and-be-funny delivery, a multitude of sins are covered up. Willis is the bad cop Jimmy Monroe (although not as bad as he would have you believe) while Morgan is Paul Hodges the goofy one whose want to be badder is almost as great as his parano ...

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The Crazies

February 28th, 2010

The Crazies is a remake of a squirmy 1973 George A. Romero movie which this time around adds the capable acting chops of Timothy Olyphant to the mix. He’s David Dutton the sheriff of a sleepy Midwest farming town where the pace is a little mind numbing – but that is not what severely numbs the minds of townsfolk in a geometric progression. Something is turning the villagers into murderous zom ...

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The Messenger

February 28th, 2010

The Messenger stars Ben Foster as Saff Sergeant Will Montgomery, a Purple Heart war hero stateside and almost recovered from his wounds. With only a few months left on his contract he’s assigned the duty of informing the next of kin about recent casualties overseas. His C.O. in this less than desirable assignment is the swaggering Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson in his best effort yet tha ...

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Shutter Island

February 21st, 2010

Shutter Island is adapted from Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name. Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a Massachusetts Marshal haunted by WW 2 concentration camp atrocities who in 1954 along with new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) is sent to investigate a case involving an escaped patient named Rachel (played intermittently by Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson) from a hospital for ...

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