Drama, Movies

Fracture

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Anthony Hopkins plays a sociopath similar to the one he portrayed in Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins’ character shoots his wife when he discovers she is cheating on him with a police officer. Without any remorse, he tries to get off the hook for the murder by outsmarting the good-looking district attorney. The film is image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Isn’t it interesting that people have such a soft spot for bank robbers?  Forcing a grandmother to hand over all her savings and shooting her right in the head would not make a good story. But robbing a bank does not stir peoples’ indignation. The impersonal bank is not perceived to be a real victim. image [Read More]
Diary

Hairspray

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This comic musical is a lot of fun! It is not the history lesson about the struggle to integrate black people into mainstream America that captured my heart. I also did not laugh much. The film is not particularly funny. But the music and dancing is so infectious that many a times I wanted to image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

The Bourne Ultimatum

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How would you feel if you suddenly found out that you were a totally different person until a few years ago and if you did not remember anything about your previous life? (My fear is that I might discover out that I was George Bush. ) For two installments Jason Bourne has been trying to image smile [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Blades of Glory

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This newest effort by Will Farrell is not nearly as funny as Bodega Nights.  The basic idea behind the movie has some charms. Let’s use the gender wars to go for a real gender bender. Two guys compete in the Olympic pair ice-skating competition.  I have been told many times that the top female player image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Premonition

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Sandra Bullocks plays a good-looking mother who is visited by the most awful kind of deja vu experiences you can imagine.  She no longer knows what is real and what is simply a hallucination. I was moved by the film because it artfully highlights how we can quickly fall apart when our brains are no image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Wild Hogs

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This is probably the most inane movie I have seen in a long time. The characters are fake; the story is shallow. But here comes the real shocker:  the viewing public made the film the bestselling DVD in month of September.  Famous actors (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, image [Read More]