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Review: FROST/NIXON

January 9, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

About half way through the Frost/Nixon, Nixon aide Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon) compares David Frost (Michael Sheen) to a boxer who trained for months to face off against the champion—in this case former President Richard [click for more]

SPEED RACER Makes Time Magazine’s 10 Best Films List

December 9, 2008 Rich Drees

If I were Nikki Finke, I would have written “Toldja!” in the headline. In Time Magazine’s list of the Top 10 films of 2008, critic Richard Corliss has included the much maligned Speed Racer in [click for more]

Review: MILK

November 26, 2008 Rich Drees

His name was Harvey Milk and he wanted to recruit you. He didn’t want to recruit you in the way that his detractors would want you think. He didn’t care if you were gay like [click for more]

Review: AUSTRALIA

November 26, 2008 Rich Drees

With a running time of two hours and forty-five minutes, director Baz Luhrmann’s Australia is not so much an epic period romance than it is a series of shorter unrelated films barely connected by the [click for more]

Review: QUANTUM OF SOLACE

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Let’s face it. There are a lot of expectations sitting on this movie. When the James Bond franchise reinvented itself in 2006 with Casino Royale, audiences and critics were pleasantly surprised with its new found [click for more]

Review: CHANGELING

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

The one true horror film opening this weekend is Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. While the movie contains a deranged serial killer, it is not his acts that the film dwells on. Instead, the real avenues of [click for more]

Review: ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) have a problem. Platonic best friends since elementary school, the two find themselves in their mid-20s sharing an apartment and going nowhere fast. Their dead end jobs are [click for more]

Review: STRANDED: I’VE JUST COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED IN THE MOUNTAINS

October 23, 2008 Rich Drees

Transitioning from the film festival circuit to a limited theatrical release is the documentary Stranded: I’ve Just Come From A Plane That Crashed In The Mountains. You may be familiar with the story of a [click for more]

Review: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

October 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Director Mike Leigh’s films have almost always been more about the characters than the plot and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception. More character sketch than anything else, Happy-Go-Lucky paints the portrait of Poppy, a middle class [click for more]

Review: SEX DRIVE

October 17, 2008 John Gibbon

Imagine my surprise when I was handed 3D glasses to see the upcoming comedy Sex Drive. I found the gesture a little suspicious, thinking this was an interesting, yet facetious ploy possibly rivaling the gimmicks [click for more]