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& Leopold (2001, James Mangold)">Kate & Leopold (2001, James Mangold)

July 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I unintentionally watched the Roger Ebert cut of Kate & Leopold. I originally saw it at a sneak preview with the plot intact. Ebert saw it around the same time and threatened to complain or whatever if they didn’t cut it.
It works all right, but the original cut is available on DVD. I thought that version […]

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Tagged: Hugh Jackman· James Mangold· Liev Schreiber· Miramax Films· ★½

Adventureland (2009, Greg Mottola)

April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I hate Adventureland. I mean, it’s a rather good film, but I’m going to have to say nice things about Ryan Reynolds now and so I hate it. Reynolds has a small but significant role in the film and he’s fantastic, bringing humanity to what should be a common character. I cringed at his name […]

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Tagged: Greg Mottola· Miramax Films· ★★★

The Crossing Guard (1995, Sean Penn)

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments

I can’t decide what moment of The Crossing Guard is my favorite. I have it narrowed down to two. It’s either the (louder) one at the end, where Jack Nicholson realizes where he is and how he got there, or it’s when I realized Anjelica Huston–who starts the film in a support group–has never spoken […]

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Tagged: David Morse· Jack Nicholson· Miramax Films· Richard Bradford· Sean Penn· ★★★★

Doubt (2008, John Patrick Shanley)

December 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

There’s a good movie somewhere in the idea of Doubt (a nun suspects a priest of molesting a child, but it’s 1964 and the patriarchy of the Church isn’t going to listen to her). The film’s full of almost detective moments (and faux-auteur Shanley pulls out some Hitchcock angles after the big reveal), but the […]

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Tagged: John Patrick Shanley· Meryl Streep· Miramax Films· Philip Seymour Hoffman· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Beautiful Girls (1996, Ted Demme)

October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Of the principals, only Michael Rapaport is under thirty (Beautiful Girls hinges on a ten-year high school reunion) and much of the running time can be spent wondering how the viewer is supposed to believe Timothy Hutton isn’t thirty-five years old (he’s actually thirty-six). Hutton gives one of the film’s best performances, frequently transcending the […]

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Tagged: Michael Rapaport· Miramax Films· Scott Rosenberg· Ted Demme· Timothy Hutton·

Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Dead Man is not a strange film. I haven’t seen it in ten years and I’ve probably seen the majority of the Westerns I’ve seen in that interim. So the opening, as Johnny Depp watches the familiar Western trappings pass from a train window, probably didn’t resonate on my last viewing. What Jarmusch doesn’t get […]

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Tagged: Billy Bob Thornton· Crispin Glover· Gabriel Byrne· Jim Jarmusch· John Hurt· Johnny Depp· Lance Henriksen· Michael Wincott· Miramax Films· Robert Mitchum· ★★★★

Smart People (2008, Noam Murro)

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s hard to intelligently describe Smart People because the best way to describe it is quite simple. It’s a bunch of movie trailers for quirky family dramatic comedies strung together. Not five minutes goes by without two montages to songs (I’m shocked the soundtrack CD wasn’t available in the lobby) and one instrumental. There are […]

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Tagged: Dennis Quaid· Mark Poirier· Miramax Films· Noam Murro· Thomas Haden Church· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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