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Month: April 2007

counting down the best films of 2006: No. 5, ‘The Departed’

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: A cast and crew at the absolute top of their games — including some you never thought could play in this league — create a tough, gritty, funny, thrilling, pure-popcorn adrenaline rush. Movies that are Important and Meaningful and have Something To Say are … more…

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counting down the best films of 2006: No. 6, ‘The Queen’

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Helen Mirren turns in one of the greatest performances in cinematic history as the reigning queen of England, Elizabeth II, taking a woman who not only doesn’t come across as warm and sympathetic, she doesn’t even seem human … and Mirren humanizes her, makes … more…

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Firehouse Dog (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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A perfectly excruciating mix of stupidity and sentimentality…

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First Snow (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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Pearce’s usual intense dedication to being in the moment aside, there’s not a lot of there there.

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Are We Done Yet? (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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If you thought 2005’s *Are We There Yet?* was unendurable, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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The Loop: Season One (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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The contrived shenanigans of Sam Sullivan (Bret Harrison) — 20something corporate VP by day, slacker by night — are as hollow as they are unfunny.

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Masterpiece Theater) (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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While this isn’t a strict transferal of Stoker to the screen, it feels like it is, feels particularly and peculiarly Victorian…

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Princesas (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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This slice-of-life drama brooks no sentiment and spares us none of the tedium and terror of life on the street…

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Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner: Extended and Uncut (review)

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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Shatner is taunted by people you’ve heard of but couldn’t care less about — Andy Dick, Jeffrey Ross — and some seemingly pulled off the street…

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my stuff on Film.com, and what’s happening here at FlickFilosopher.com

Sun, Apr 01, 2007
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Recent Film.com stuff: • my usual Friday weekend preview • my previews of The Reaping and Are We There Yet? • my previews of Meet the Robinsons and Blades of Glory • my two-part interview with Jamie Bamber of Battlestar Galactica: Part I and Part II (and there’s a snippet of video over at Geek … more…

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