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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

May 23rd, 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian takes place after only a year of the second World War in Britain after the four Pevensie siblings first foray into the land of Narnia but in Narnia itself 1300 years has past and not in a good way for the former non human inhabitants. Human called Telmarines are now the tyrannical rulers and Narnians have been driven underground. King Miraz is the Telm ...

My Blueberry Nights

May 23rd, 2008
My Blueberry Nights is a tour de force for smoky torch singer Norah Jones as Elizabeth The title is from an analogy about heartbreak and blueberry pie delivered by Jude Law as Jeremy, a New York greasy spoon operator. She lands at his lunch counter looking for the man two-timing her and ends up as a regular showing up at closing time for comforting conversation and pie a la mode as he too is ...

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

May 23rd, 2008
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? Is yet another documentary from Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock. Now with a little less hair but unfortunately the same unfashionable moustache he again inserts himself as an on camera guinea pig this time trying to chase down the worlds most wanted man. With his wife’s pregnancy comes the epiphany of what a dangerous world that child will face an ...

Son of Rambow

May 23rd, 2008
Son of Rambow is a British comedy about Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) a boy being brought among a small religious sect that makes Luddites look hip. It’s the ‘80’s when home video was new and smoking bylaws were in the far distant future. Despite his cloistered upbringing it’s clear that Will has a very creative and artistic side which runs contrary to the families beliefs. He’s not allowed an ...

Speed Racer

May 9th, 2008
Speed Racer is the given name for one of the characters in this screen adaptation of a Japanese anime TV series that originated in 1967. Ostensibly he is the star but with Paulie Litt deliberately overacting as younger brother Spritle, he’s constantly upstaged in what looks like an over ambitious attempt to assure a PG rating. Into the Wild star Emile Hirsch plays Speed and Christina Ricci co ...

Redbelt

May 9th, 2008
Redbelt for the uninitiated (that includes me) denotes the highest degree of proficiency in Jiu Jitsu – higher than a black belt, so high in fact that there is only one owner. This fact is a minor issue in this latest action film based on mixed martial arts, but the high end cast brings us a story with more substance than the usual parade of twenty-something hard bodies with a lot of pent up ...

The Babysitters

May 9th, 2008
The Babysitters is about a group of senior high girls who set up a babysitting service with benefits - and we’re not talking extended medical and dental. Katherine Waterston is terrific as Shirley who instigates the scheme that originates with the inappropriate relationship started with Michael, who ends up paying a very large tip after an extended drive hope post babysitting job for him and ...

Standard Operating Procedure

May 9th, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure is the stamp of acceptability placed by a forensic cop investigating the photos of objectionable prisoner abuse by US military grunts at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. It’s the ones earmarked “violation” that were used as evidence against a handful of low ranking GI’s who were the only people charged after the ensuing fallout. The irony is their allegation that the ...

Iron Man

May 3rd, 2008
Iron Man is not the story of a guy who presses his own laundry. It does involve a billionaire genius in a metal with the iron irony being that not much of it could possibly be iron but probably some other ultra bullet proof alloy. Iron just wouldn’t survive the ordinance he faces in this getup (with even more irony) against sophisticated munitions also of his invention. The suit comes to ligh ...

Made of Honor

May 3rd, 2008
Made of Honor, borrowing heavily from My Best Friends Wedding, stars Patrick Dempsey as Tom a lifelong womanizer whose best friend from college is Hannah played by Michelle Monaghan. The two are clearly made for each other yet unbelievably after 10 years the idea of a relationship never came up. When Hannah goes to Scotland for a vacation it finally dawns on Tom that she’s the one but on he ...
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