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Apocalypse Soon
The laughably overwrought 2012, does no damage to John Cusack's credibility, and reaffirms his talent for bringing heft to an otherwise weightless exercise. More
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Land of Lost Memories
2046 is not a date. It is not a mysterious code. It is the means to a destination. 2046 is the number of an apartment that once belonged to an old friend of Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), a Hong Kong-based writer who creates a futuristic sci-fi novel in which 2046 is a perpetually running train which people board in order to relive their lost memories. For director/writer Wong Kar Wai, it is also the name of his latest film. More
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Actually, It is Just a Game
Loosely based on (actually "inspired by") Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction bestseller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, 21 is an underwritten, clichéd, implausible, contrived film that fits all too neatly into the rise-fall-redemption narrative structure we’ve seen countless times before. Directed by Robert Luketic (Monster-in-Law, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Legally Blonde) from Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb’s screenplay, 21 is part morality play, part wish-fulfillment and pure Hollywood hokum. More
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After watching a good comedy or fantasy flick, you walk out of the theater with a little extra bounce in your stride. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the films of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Instead of standing up to leave when the credits roll, you remain fused to your seat. Though you have sat motionless for the past two hours, it feels more like you just lugged an oak armoire up a dozen flights of stairs. More
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Spike Lee's 25th Hour
Friends are one of the most important things you can have in life. And not just any friends - not the hi-and-bye kind, or the fair-weather ones, or the type you hang out with only at parties. No, the real kind: the kind that take care of you when you're sick, and drive you to the airport at four o'clock in the morning, and listen to you when you need to cry. But there are times when even your most faithful friends can't help you and you are left on your own - and those are very bad times indeed. More
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If you live in San Francisco, the East Bay or, especially, the South Bay a drive to Marin to see a movie may seem like a daunting task. But these are no ordinary movies that you can catch at your local playhouse- these are handpicked gems of celluloid offered up as part of the 26th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival... More
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A Chick Flick that Fits
Nothing says "chick flick" like a film centered on a woman's life-defining obsession with attending or organizing weddings (and she's not a professional wedding planner). Nothing says "romantic comedy" like a film that revolves around a woman secretly in love with her boss, but finds herself on the outside looking in as her boss falls in love with someone close to her. Throw the two ideas into the mix and you’d probably get choreographer-turned-director Anne Fletcher's (Step Up) second feature film, 27 Dresses, an engagingly effervescent romantic comedy starring Emmy award-winning actress Katherine Heigl. More
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The Rage Returns
Director Danny Boyle injected new life into the zombie genre with 2002’s 28 Days Later. The zombies in that film were far from the slow, doddering undead from previous zombie films. In fact, they were quite the contrary. Boyle’s zombies were wicked fast, unrelenting, and insatiable. Nearly five years later and zombies are STILL box office gold. With this in mind we get the follow up to 28 Days Later, the appropriately named 28 Weeks Later. More
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An Unholy Trinity
Coinciding with World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's cinematic triptych presents three disparate yet complementary stories about how this indiscriminate disease afflicts individuals, communities, and societies on three continents in very different ways. Based on writer/director Fitzgerald's experiences in China, South Africa, and the West (specifically Canada), 3 Needles portrays the AIDS pandemic on a scale that is alternately intimate and sweeping. As a result, the film is irresistibly watchable and ultimately disturbing. More
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A Vampire’s Paradise
Every year in the northernmost town in the world (Barrow, Alaska), 30 days of darkness descends. This uninterrupted darkness presents problems for many and most head south during this period. However, for certain undead, bloodthirsty tourists, Barrow is the undead equivalent of Hawaii with a Sizzler steakhouse on every corner. The question is just how many of the few humans left in Barrow will survive 30 Days of Night. More
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