Year: 2007

August Rush (review)

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Female film directors are such rare creatures in Hollywood, and so it’s always a delight to find a new one with such talent and such promise as Kristen Sheridan displays in her tender, enchanting ‘August Rush,’ an urban fable of family lost and gifts found… and refound.

my week at the movies: absolutely nuthin’

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It’s a holiday week, which means press screenings are in short supply. Which is fine with me — the pile of DVDs I keep meaning to get to ain’t gonna watch itself. I might go see Hitman over the weekend: that one won’t screen for critics, and I like Tim Olyphant, and I think I … more…

The Mist movie review: we have met the monsters…

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Frank Darabont’s adaptations of Stephen King’s writings are not just some of the best mountings of the writer’s work but some of the best films, period, of recent years. So I don’t think it’s too outrageous — or too surprising — to say that ‘The Mist’ is not only one of the best movies of 2007, it’s one of the best horror movies ever made. Period.

sneaking a peek at ‘Battlestar Galactica: Razor’

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Battlestar Galactica on the big screen? Ooo, baby. When I heard that the Sci Fi Channel was doing some multiplex sneak previews of Razor, the BSG movie that’ll debut next Saturday, November 24 (and coming to DVD in an extended version in December), I was so there. And it looked really cool on the big … more…

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (review)

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Oh, but these are awful people, honestly. They’re so deliciously amoral that it’s coolly insane fun to watch them implode, it’s true, but you’d have to run far and fast were you to find yourself actually encountering them lest their slimy stink rub off on you.