While the final domestic summer scoreboard won’t be tallied until Labor Day has come and gone, there’s no need to wait for that typically blah holiday weekend to play itself out. It’s already clear who this summer’s winners were: “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (20th Century Fox) with over $379 million. …
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Fall Film Synopses for 2005
Here are some of what we have to look forward to this Fall film season. The long-awaited adaptation of the best seller “Memoirs of a Geisha,” director Rob Marshall’s follow-up to “Chicago,” stars Ziyi Zhang as a poor Japanese girl who becomes a geisha goddess. Other big films include Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” a thriller about …
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The Constant Gardner
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the …
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Yes film synopsis
Some kind of polemical erotic fable from the British filmmaker Sally Potter, moved to contrive a variation on “Hiroshima, mon amour” in the aftermath of September 11. She casts Joan Allen as an adulterous wife who leaves husband Sam Neill in Paris to pursue a Middle-Eastern lover to Beirut. The affair is ornamented by dialogue …
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Shadow of a Doubt
One of Hitchcock’s earlier films released in 1943 starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. This movie is very suspenseful and shows why the well loved director is the father of the suspense thriller. Cotten plays Charlie, a lonely drifter decides to visit his older sister and her family in Santa Rosa California. Young Charlie, played …
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Gibson to Make Another Ancient Language Film
Actor-director Mel Gibson is well on his way to cornering a new niche market in Hollywood – movies written in ancient languages. A year after breaking box-office records with “The Passion of the Christ,” which was shot in Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew, Gibson has struck a deal with the Walt Disney Co. to release his …
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Darksiders Coming From New Line
New Line is bringing in Jonathan Hensleigh to rewrite and direct Darksiders, which revolves around a group of vampires who become special operatives for the FBI, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Case #5: High Tension, War of the Worlds, Push Off, I’m On Vacation
This Week’s Case(s): High Tension/War of the Worlds/Push Off, I’m On Vacation That’s right. I’m at the Aqua Teen famed South Jersey Shore. Rather than getting all uppity at A.O. Scott for shit-canning some mildly obscure sequel to a big budget softcore vampire noir, I’d rather just briefly tell you why recent releases High Tension …
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Case #4: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
This Week’s Case: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Released: 1993 Director: Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm Starring: The Voices of Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Abe Vigoda, and Mark Hamill Synopsis: A new villain, The Phantasm, is murdering its way through the Gotham underworld all the while leading police to believe that Batman has turned to homicide. The plot thickens …
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What's Next for Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore is in negotiations to star opposite Clive Owen in the Alfonso Cuaron-helmed sci-fi movie Children of Men, Variety reported. Strike Entertainment is producing the adaptation of P.D. James’ novel for Universal Pictures, set to start production in September. Children of Men would wrap in time for Moore to move over to another sci-fi …
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2004 Film List With Directors and Aspect Ratios - Part Two
The Machinist / United States / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Brad Anderson Machuca / Chile / 1.85:1 / 121 min. / Andreas Wood The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam / Canada / 1.33:1 / 91 min. / Anne Marie Fleming The Manchrurian Candidate / United States / 1.85:1 / 130 min. / Jonathan …
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