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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans (2009)

January 1st, 2010 · No Comments

At some point during this response, I’m going to say nice things about Eva Mendes. Just a warning.
I used to hate on CG, starting in around 1996 and ending about six years later, when I just gave up caring. It wasn’t ever going to stop and it had gotten to a point where there was […]

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Tagged: Abel Ferrera· First Look Studios· Nicolas Cage· Val Kilmer· Werner Herzog· William M. Finkelstein· ★★★½

G-Force (2009, Hoyt Yeatman)

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m not a fan of the popcorn movie argument–it’s the one where people tell you you’re just supposed to enjoy the movie and not think about it–Stephen Sommers uses it in his defense and so does, somewhat more interestingly, Cameron Crowe (I think he called it populist to prove he’d been to college). Except if […]

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Tagged: Bill Nighy· Cormac Wibberley· Hoyt Yeatman· Jon Favreau· Marianne Wibberley· Nicolas Cage· Sam Rockwell· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★

Moonstruck (1987, Norman Jewison)

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve seen Moonstruck once before–though I’d forgotten the terrible opening titles–and I think (I repressed the experience) that time I had the same response I just had this time. Moonstruck makes me worried I have brain damage. The first three quarters of the film, roughly until the very good scene between John Mahoney and Olympia […]

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Tagged: John Patrick Shanley· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Nicolas Cage· Norman Jewison· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Ghost Rider (2007, Mark Steven Johnson), the extended cut

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Watching former–I don’t know, he wasn’t really an indie, so something like pre-hipster hipster–wunderkind Wes Bentley in material like this movie (where he finally finds his appropriate level, skill-wise) is kind of amusing. Is it amusing enough to get through the whole movie, especially since Bentley doesn’t show up until twenty-five minutes into it (remember, […]

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Tagged: Columbia Pictures· Gary Friedrich· Mark Steven Johnson· Mike Ploog· Nicolas Cage· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Lord of War (2005, Andrew Niccol)

April 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Lord of War fails on quite a few levels–I suppose some of the direction is interesting and some of the puns are funny–but it still surprised me when it attempted to be civic-minded in the end. I should have seen it coming, but I was a little distracted by the end. The last scene and […]

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Tagged: Andrew Niccol· Ian Holm· Lions Gate Films· Nicolas Cage· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, Dominic Sena), the director’s cut

December 6th, 2005 · No Comments

I just watched the recent–let’s see what they’re calling it–director’s cut. A director’s cut without director’s audio commentary. It features nine extra minutes, the most noticeable being a few shots where you see tit. Before DVDs, directors’ cuts meant something (even if they weren’t exactly the director’s cut). Blade Runner and Touch of Evil meant […]

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Tagged: Delroy Lindo· Dominic Sena· Giovanni Ribisi· H.B. Halicki· Nicolas Cage· Robert Duvall· Scott Rosenberg· Touchstone Pictures· Will Patton· ★★½

Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)

November 6th, 2005 · No Comments

What to say about Bringing Out the Dead… I remember now why 1999 was the hardest year to make a top ten list for–and I hadn’t even seen Wonderland at that point. Whatever. It’s the best. It’s certainly Scorsese’s best work in the 1990s, puts the rest to a kind of shame (it’s odd, then, […]

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Tagged: Cliff Curtis· Joe Connelly· Marc Anthony· Martin Scorsese· Nicolas Cage· Paramount Pictures· Patricia Arquette· Paul Schrader· Tom Sizemore· Ving Rhames· ★★★★

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