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Law & Order Special Victims Unit: Year Six
Thursday May 15, 2008
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is hardcore. Sure, now that any TV watcher has become used to shows like CSI or Criminal Minds, the idea of heavy, groady violence is less of a shock to the system: we really get a lot of blood on the boob tube, don’t we? But even compared to other grisly shows, SVU is a bit hard to swallow.The SVU in the title refers to a section of the detective pool that focuses on particularly unsettling and unsavory unlawful activities that are handled by a team... More...
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - BD
Thursday May 15, 2008
The movie career of one-man cottage industry Judd Apatow really took off when he produced the hilarious 2004 Will Ferrell vehicle Anchorman. But after Apatow and Ferrell re-teamed for the almost equally hilarious Talladega Nights they’ve gone in two very different directions. Ferrell’s choices in straight ahead comedies are getting worse and more predictable. Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro were not only bad movies, they hurled Ferrell right into a career crossroads. Apatow, on the other... More...
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Steal a Pencil for Me
Sunday May 11, 2008
1943: Holland is under complete Nazi occupation. When the Jews are being deported, Jack Polak, his wife Manja, and his new love, Ina Soep, find themselves living in the same barracks in a concentration camp. When Jack’s wife objects to the relationship, in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which gives them the strength to survive the war. Jack’s first wife, Manja, was a marriage by pressure and neither she nor he were happy. As Jack... More...
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The Lovers
Sunday May 11, 2008
Louis Malle remains one of the world’s most underrated and underappreciated auteurs (only one Oscar won? For shame, Hollywood!) and a film like The Lovers only adds flame to that fire. Malle’s award-winning Au Revoir Les Enfants was a classic piece of cinema from the late 1980s, but the guy had a lifetime’s worth of exceptional filmmaking under his belt that neither got much lasting attention nor was fully appreciated in its time. Enter Criterion and their lovely, prolific slate... More...
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Youth Without Youth - BD
Sunday May 11, 2008
The theatrical poster and BD cover artwork for Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, the first film he’s directed since adapting John Grisham’s The Rainmaker in 1997, prominently depicts a large red rose which immediately begs the question: is the bloom off the rose? I’m pleased to report that the answer is decidedly “no,” although I think Coppola might have bitten off more than he could chew with this audacious and lofty project based on the dense... More...
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The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season
Friday May 9, 2008
You’re not going to have to dig very deep into the annals of television reviews to find a critic who has called The Wire the best TV show of all time. Even when HBO was broadcasting series like The Sopranos and Sex and the City – two shows that literally changed the face of popular culture in a significant way – there was a bloc of the critical consensus that flocked to The Wire like it was a lighthouse on a stormy black ocean night.And to be fair, even those who harpoon the... More...
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Bella
Friday May 9, 2008
An international soccer star (Eduardo Verastegui) is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when a series of events unfold that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress (Tammy Blanchard), struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself for which she’s unprepared. In one irreversible moment, each of their lives has been turned upside down…until a simple gesture of kindness brings them both together, turning an ordinary day into an... More...
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Juno - BD
Friday May 9, 2008
Juno deserves all the praise it has received. In fact, it deserves a more praise than it has received: I was sorely disappointed when Ellen Page, who plays the lead character Juno in the film, did not receive the award for best actress at the last Oscar event (screenplay writer Diablo Cody did receive an Oscar for her efforts which was well deserved). And though Ellen’s performance is a knockout success, hers is not the only strength in this refreshingly unconventional film; the power of... More...
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