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A teenage girl in love with a vampire is devastated when the vampire leaves her for fear of the danger that he brings into her life. The girl becomes ...
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Ninja Assassin
A young child is taken in by a clan of assassins and is raised to become a trained killer. But after witnessing the execution of his friend, he turns ...
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Disney's A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve, a stingy old businessman is visited by the ghost of his old partner, warning him that he is to be visited by three ghosts that very ...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
A wily fox and his family has put food on the table by stealing meals from three crooked farmers living nearby. Fed up with the foxes antics, the farm...
Wasting Our Time
posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Movie Reviews
Not Forgotten recalls some elements of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, though making a direct reference to it is totally giving this film too much credit. While they both feature men who are living secret lives in idyllic settings while hiding a deep violent past that catches up with them, only one of these films has the decency to make sense, or to have any sort of emotional resonance. Sadly, Not Forgotten is not that film.
Inferior Versions
posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Movie Reviews
John Woo’s return to Hong Kong Cinema Red Cliff brings a complicated mix of strategy, battles, romance and intrigue, shifting between large scale battles and deeply personal moments that may involve, music, philosophy and meditation. Bringing those elements together required a lot of screen time, spanning two movies that add up to just under five hours of cinema. We only get half of that, which isn’t great, but I was actually to forgive. What becomes unforgivable, however, is the terrible dubbing job they did on it.
Unconfident Silence
posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Movie Reviews
Sanglaan sometimes feels like it is caught between two worlds. In its heart, I feel, it’s a film that wants to be still, to swim in the murky silence of everyday life, filling the theater with an uncomfortable but compelling picture of a very real, often boring life. And strangely, that would’ve been more exciting than what we ended up getting in the end: a movie unsure of the strength of its own truths, falling quickly to the temptation of forced melodrama. There’s more than an inkling of something to Sanglaan, but they just didn’t trust it.
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