Not-a-review: Pineapple Express (2008)
Note: This is my attempt to write a review that doesn’t grade the film or make any direct statements about whether it was good, bad, or sort of good, etc. So there are NO stars, just thoughts. The idea behind this is that whether you enjoy a film or don’t actually has very little …
Review: Ten Thousand Waves
Review: Ten Thousand Waves
Isaac Julien
http://www.isaacjulien.com/
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Ten Thousand Waves is a video installation – a film played on four different screens – inspired by a tragedy where 13 Chinese clam collectors drowned off the coast of North Wales, by the British artist Isaac Julien. It’s currently on display in Helsinki’s Taidehalli.
The film mainly …
Film Review: Dorian Gray (2009)
Dorian Gray (2009)
Directed by Jon Cunningham
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Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young, innocent country gentleman who arrives in London and becomes the subject of a campaign of corruption and induction into cynicism by the highborn, civilly sordid Harry Wotton (Colin Firth). As Dorian commits sin after sin, a beautiful portrait drawn after he first …
Film Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Sony Pictures
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Ever since he was a little boy, Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) has dedicated his life to mad science, inventing utterly awesome devices that nobody wants. In adulthood, he still lives with his bait-selling father (James Caan) in a little island community devoted to sardine fishing, his treehouse …
Film Review: Toy Story 3 (2010)
Film Review: Toy Story 3 (2010)
Disney.com
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Andy is grown up and going to college. His once-beloved toys have spent years tucked away in a box, and are expecting to either go to the attic or to the landfill. Instead they end up donated – by accident – to the Sunnyside kindergarten. Sunnyside seems like a …
Film Review: The Wolfman (2010)
The Wolfman (2010)
Directed by Joe Johnston
http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/
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Prodigal son Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) returns to the country house of his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins) after hearing his brother has gone missing, but finds he has come too late. His brother’s dead body was found in the forest, mauled by a strange beast, which the …
Film Review: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Directed by Tim Burton
http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/
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Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska) faces a choice that will affect the rest of her life – whether or not to make an advantageous match with a man she does not particularly like. Instead of deciding, she takes a moment to follow a white rabbit, who leads …
Special Link: Whitewashing in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Jake Gyllenhaal stole my identity and my video game by Sara Haghdoosti.
Thanks to Allie for the link.
You know, I didn’t want to go see Prince of Persia for a number of reasons. Number one, I have to admit, was because it was based on a video game. Number two was that the stars were …
Film Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Directed by Mike Newell
http://disney.go.com/Disneypictures/princeofpersia
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Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal, pretty as ever) is a street urchin adopted by the king, who is impressed by his running and jumping, and grows up as the third prince of Persia. After a successful victory over the city of Alamut, the king is …
Film Review: Brother Bear
Brother Bear
http://www.disney.com
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In an undefined past in an undefined part of North America, young Kenai, a member of an undefined tribe, receives his totem and loses his older brother on the same day. Rejecting his totem, “the bear of love”, he hunts down and kills the bear he blames for his brother’s death. His brother’s …
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