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I Served the King of England

September 20th, 2008

I Served the King of England is not the boast that the protagonist of this pre and post Nazi Czech comedy. He is Jan Díte played as a younger opportunist by Ivan Barnev and by Oldrich Kaiser in his reflective twilight years. Our hero aspires to be in that class but never seems to have the moral fibre. Jan was a long time protégé of a maitre‘d at Prague’s prestigious Hotel Paris who was a roya ...

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Girls Rock!

September 20th, 2008

Girls Rock! Treats us to a week long school of rock without Jack Black but with twice the insecurities. Portland Oregon is headquarters for this seven day camp that draws young women from pre teen to late adolescence regardless of musical ability (usually minimal). In their few days together some eighty to ninety girls form bands based on music genres, learn rudimentary musicianship and write ...

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Burn After Reading

September 13th, 2008

Burn After Reading is the latest production from last years Oscar winning Coen brothers and it looks like they’re going for gold again. A big slice of Hollywood’s A-list got to sink their acting chops into some very beefy roles. John Malkovich is Osborne Cox, A Langley researcher for the CIA with a short fuse and a five thousand word vocabulary that diminishes to a select group involving fou ...

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Righteous Kill

September 13th, 2008

Righteous Kill is a gritty New York crime drama starring two big apple fixtures not to mention movie star legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Even though both seem a little jowly to still be packing a badge for the NYPD instead of collecting a pension they both bring their A game to a couple of dirty cop characters. Turk (De Niro) has a hair trigger temperament but is very obliging when it ...

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The Women

September 13th, 2008

The Women could not be more aptly named since aside from one infant there is never even an ounce of testosterone on screen - although Annette Bening’s character Sylvia Fowler appears to have a fair amount of it coursing through her veins along with a quantity of ice water. Even with the magic of hair, make-up and lighting that does give her an alluring look, there still seems to be too big of ...

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The Edge of Heaven

September 5th, 2008

The Edge of Heaven has a litany of near misses that could have prevented tragedy if only connections had been made in this ping pong game of life between Munich and Istanbul. Intricately interwoven are the lives of Ali an expatiate Turk pensioner living in Germany who turns out to be far less benign than at first glance. Yeter is the prostitute that he hires to live with him. She thinks that ...

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Traitor

August 29th, 2008

Traitor is a tense drama of international intrigue that spreads from North Africa and the Middle East to the USA and even Canada. Don Cheadle stars as Samir Horn a Muslim born in Sudan who grew up in Chicago with his mother after his father perished in a politically motivated Sudanese car bombing. A stint as an army covert operative left him an explosive expert but because of conflicting alle ...

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Goal II: Living the Dream

August 29th, 2008

Goal II: Living the Dream picks up where Goal: The Dream Begins left off in 2006. Kuno Becker again portrays Santiago Muñez the amiable Mexican underdog loaded with potential who beat the odds and landed a spot on the football team in soccer mad Newcastle England. Again we take Goal to Newcastle but not for long. Not only did he get that girl Roz (Pushing Daisies terrific Anna Friel) but now ...

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Elegy

August 29th, 2008

Elegy with Vancouver playing New York and Long Beach playing Long Island cements Ben Kingsley as the hottest folicly challenged sex symbol since Telly Savalas. Here he plays long divorced and celebrated professor David Kepesh. Other than a strained relationship with his grown son (Peter Sarsgaard) he’s comfortable in his very non committal relationship with Carolyn (Patricia Clarkson) when no ...

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Sukiyaki Western Django

August 29th, 2008

Sukiyaki Western Django is a cowboy tale wilder than the Wild West itself. The motif is western but the cast is Japanese in a story that takes place in a dusty hamlet some centuries after Japan’s legendary Battle of Dannoura in 1185. Two gangs with ancient rivalries, the Red Clan and the White Clan are at war again over gold found in this town called Yuda. Decorated Japanese film maker Takash ...

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