James Bond is a great gig if you can get it, but the question becomes will you ever be known as anything else? In the cases of Timothy Dalton and Roger Moore, the answer is a resounding no… not so much. Sean Connery on the other hand, pulled it off nicely, because he’s a titan. […]
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“Munich” is a powerful and extraordinary film unlike any other Steven Spielberg movie. See clips and hear Eric & J.D. rave all about it here! Click on the photo for the Windows Media version of this on-camera review.
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The collection of social oddities and family extremes that make up the cast of “Transamerica” could be perfect fodder for a “Jerry Springer” mini-series. With a transsexual and a seventeen-year-old male prostitute as its main characters, the story could be bogged down by oversimplification and insensitive portrayals of these social pariahs, instead the dialogue feels […]
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For all of its sexual frankness and unusual main characters, writer/director Duncan Tucker’s “Transamerica” is way more familiar than it should be. Essentially an “odd couple” road trip movie about two strangers who must learn to get along, it is redeemed in part by an exceptional lead performance by Felicity Huffman. Huffman plays Bree Osbourne, […]
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Besides all the stupid talk about Hollywood’s ‘gay agenda’ from fundamentalist talking heads and the huge amount of awards that “Brokeback Mountain” has been racking up this season, there’s something else that has been discussed far less– the actual movie. J.D. and Eric try to refocus attention on “Brokeback Mountain.” Click on the photo for […]
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“Match Point” has garnered some attention as a return to form for storied director Woody Allen. Several Golden Globe nominations for the film and for its increasingly ultra hip starlet Scarlett Johansson have kept this latest entry in Allen’s filmography in the spotlight. While “Match Point” may not be the standard for the worst Woody […]
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Woody Allen strays from his favorite setting of New York City and the familiar strains of old-time jazz to the upper crust of London and opera in “Match Point,” a diabolical look at passion and power. The move not only suits Allen’s subject matter, but also marks his first truly great film since 1999’s “Sweet […]
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In the high-stakes big budget world of computer animation, “Hoodwinked” is an anomaly, as it was made without the benefit of major studio cash. Audiences have become accustomed to the dazzling visuals of Pixar movies, however, so the makers of this independently financed movie face an uphill battle, especially since its characters are all uncomfortably […]
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In a world where Pixar’s “The Incredibles” and “Monsters, Inc.” exist, there is such a thing as run-of-the-mill animated movies. Of these, “Hoodwinked” is the worst kind. It borders occasionally on clever, but never actually is. It pretends to be kid-friendly, but instead is a collection of mildly entertaining twists and turns clearly designed to […]
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Eric and J.D. represent the two opposite ends of the raging debate over Peter Jackson’s “King Kong,” calling it both ‘deep’ and ‘flatulent’ just mere seconds apart.
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We live in cynical times. Corruption in government is no longer a scandal — it’s the status quo. Huge conglomerate mega-companies are more powerful than entire countries. The term “corporate conscience” exists now only as an oxymoron. It is precisely this sort of brazen, out-of-control behavior from the filthiest rich of the world’s population that […]
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Knowing that one of legendary director Werner Herzog’s (“Aguirre: The Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo”) favorite subjects is the futility of man to overcome nature, I went into his newest documentary “Grizzly Man” expecting a sobering story of a conservationalist do-gooder who tempted fate one too many times and ultimately lost out to nature. What struck […]
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is a new stop-motion animation feature in the vein of the cult favorite Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Both feature a similarly conventional love story, and both are set in the reliably marketable director’s trademark fairy-tale world. The demands of the stop-motion method keep Corpse Bride at a brief 78 […]
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Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” will never be the same again. The iconic southern rock anthem has been given a ballsy, sadistic makeover in writer/director Rob Zombie’s second film “The Devil’s Rejects.” It is no longer enough for “this bird you cannot change” to merely fly free. In this violent and funny homage to B-movies, Zombie’s redneck […]
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Should it really be such a surprise to see a nature documentary like “March of the Penguins” nestled in each week’s box office reports among this summer’s blockbuster fantasy/sci-fi hits? It may have more in common with them than you think. After all, Antarctica is such an unbelievably cold and unforgiving territory that it almost […]
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