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There Will Be Blood

Synopsis: On the frontier of California''s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel Plainview transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious ti [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (2007)

Who's in It: Alex Etel, Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Brian Cox, Priyanka Xi The Basics: Set during WWII in Scotland (A geography point that somehow manages to feel like that old Mike Myers SNL Scot-supremacist, but one that [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Atonement (2007)

Joe Wright’s “Atonement” begins in the endlessly photogenic, thematically pregnant interwar period. The setting is a rambling old British country estate where trim dinner jackets and shimmering silk dresses are worn; cig [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Hollywood continues its tired milking of old television properties with “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” a slick updating of the musical-cartoon franchise created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. in 1958. Remodeled over the years on televisi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2007 | Comments : 1

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

Now that Peter Jackson has completed the extraordinary feat of filming all three of Tolkien's Rings Trilogy, it's worth taking a moment to look at some of the statistics. Two years of pre-production were followed by a year of principal phot [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2007 | Comments : 1

I Am Legend (2007)

“Not if you were the last man on earth!” Plenty of guys have heard that line at some point in their lives, but it’s unlikely that Will Smith is one. His irresistible charm has been proved, above all, by his ability to [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The composer-lyricist’s bulging shelf of awards and peerless reputation notwithstanding, Sondheim’s own shows have never invited much bigscreen interest, no doubt due to the general feeling that they are works from and for the h [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Superbad (2007)

\ Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy “Superbad.” A tickly, funny tale of three teenage boys revved up by their surging, churning, flooding hormones, the movie joins the tumescent ranks of similarl [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2007 | Comments : 1

The Golden Compass (2007)

A fantastic bestiary inhabits “The Golden Compass,” prowling and flapping and slithering and fluttering. The animals, most of which are called daemons and are manifestations of the human soul, hover at the side of their people [...]

Posted On : Dec, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

This Christmas (2007)

In movies the holidays are a time when families come together, and a lifetime of secrets boil to the surface over a few short days.In Preston A. Whitmore II’s film “This Christmas,” the Whitfields — a mother, her t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2007 | Comments : 0

Live Free or Die Hard

He's back. The fly in the ointment. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the… well, since Len Wiseman's Live Free or Die Hard is the franchise's first installment saddled with an audience-friendly PG-13 rating, we'll have to dance [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Beowulf (2007)

The legend of Beowulf, a mythical hero whose exploits were recounted in an 8th century epic poem, has gained unprecedented popularity some 1250 years after it was first told. With the success of The Lord of the Rings, which (along with the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Heroes (2006/II) review

I first saw the teaser commercial for Heroes at the end of Medium's last season and started salivating. And now that I've tuned in I'm hooked. The premise of super-humans has been done before and most recently in Mutant X. And I've been aro [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

August Rush (2007)

To describe “August Rush” as a piece of shameless hokum doesn’t quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale about a homeless, musically gifted miracle child. August Ru [...]