Reviews

Fri, Mar 12 2010

Mother Movie Review

One of South Korea’s best directors to date, responsible for the horror film “The Host” back in 2006, Bong Joon-Ho returns with another unconventional thriller opening in L.A. this week, “Mother”....

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Sun, Mar 7 2010

The Secret of Kells Movie Review

Threatening the race for the Best Animated Feature in the Oscars of recent features “Coraline”, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, and “Up” is an enchantingly old-fashioned Irish film “The Secret of Kells”....

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Thu, Mar 4 2010

“Toe to Toe” is the first non-documentary feature film from writer/director Emily Abt which would surely be attractive to teenage girls if it were converted into a young-adult novel. Devotees of contemporary...

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Tue, Mar 2 2010

The Yellow Handkerchief Movie Review

Pete Hamill’s Reader’s Digest story “The Yellow Handkerchief” transitions once more to the big screen after serving as inspiration for Yoji Yamada’s 1977 film of the same name. Though both films...

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Sat, Feb 27 2010

The Good Guy Movie Review

The not-so-common mix of balancing career and relationship for young adults in their 20s is the main focus of writer-director Julio DePietro’s debut film, “The Good Guy”. This romantic drama set...

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Thu, Feb 25 2010

Happy Tears Movie Review

Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein keeps the odd comic flavor present in his first feature in 2007 “Teeth” for his latest film “Happy Tears”. The only difference lies in the element of horror...

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Sat, Feb 20 2010

The Ghost Writer Movie Review

Roman Polanski creates his own mystery thriller which not only he directs but also co-writes together with political journalist Robert Harris who wrote the novel upon which “The Ghost Writer” is based....

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Mon, Feb 15 2010

The Wolfman Movie Review

Seventy years back Lon Cheney first introduced viewers to the new hero of primetime, “The Wolfman”. Adapted to suit the present time, Universal returns to Blackmoor once more for a big screen adaptation....

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Thu, Feb 11 2010

District 13: Ultimatum Movie Review

Back in 2004, viewers were first introduced to Tomaso in the first installment of “District 13”. Now Luc Besson returns with the sequel “Ultimatum” alongside his other current release “From Paris...

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Tue, Feb 9 2010

Red Riding: 1974 Movie Review

“Red Riding: 1974” is the first installment in a trilogy of British television crime dramas based from the four intertwined novels by David Peace known as “The Red Riding Quartet”. For all four...

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