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Best and Worst Films 2006 *UPDATED*

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   January 1, 2007   ⋅   Comments [9]

We’re back again with our best and worst lists for the year. Once again, our criteria for Best Film status were the films that we truly felt we would watch again. For the nitpickers out there, some of the pictures listed played in their native countries at the tail end of 2005, but weren’t seen [...]

The Black Dahlia movie review

by Chris   ⋅   September 16, 2006   ⋅   Comments [12]

When it comes to failed films by renowned directors there seem to be two categories: the modest misses, and flaming cinematic train wrecks. DePalma’s Black Dahlia belongs in the latter, a catastrophic failure of proportions not seen since Verhoven’s Showgirls. The film is chock full of embarrassingly inept acting and sloppy set design, which in [...]

Fast Food Nation, Flags of our Fathers, and more… // trailers

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   August 16, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

Fast Food Nation. Richard Linklater adapts the hit book on the evils/health risks of fast food. Funny, the book is even studied in college Lit classes these days…. See the trailer here.
Flags of our Fathers/Red Sun, Black Sand. Two films on World War II, told from the perspectives of the US and the Japanese respectively. [...]

BEST OF THE YEAR (so far)

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   August 9, 2006   ⋅   Comments [4]

A lot of critics seem to be putting out their Best of Year (so far) lists, so we’ve decided to do the same. But, rather than list films guaranteed to garner critical acclaim (and respect of our academic elitist peers), we’re choosing those we would honestly watch more than once.
Best films (Chris):
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
So [...]

Lucky Number Slevin movie review

by Kris   ⋅   April 17, 2006   ⋅   Comments [3]

If you were to analyze it, Lucky Number Slevin proffers many questions, most tear into the plot and needn’t be asked anyway. Questions like, can a Rabbi (played by the wonderfully odd Sir Ben Kingsley) also be an adequate mob kingpin? Can benevolent Morgan Freeman (as The Boss) portray the Rabbi’s ultimate [...]

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