Category: Reviews
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‘The Quiet Man’ brings ‘Taming of the Shrew’ to Ireland
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A former Irish boxer who has spent years in America returns to Ireland to escape a dark secret. But love and tradition challenge his wish to renounce violence as he is pressured to fight for…
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‘Win a Date with Tad Hamilton’ is a bit of a loser
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This film attempts to draw on our secret fantasies of dating movie stars but falls short. At worst an effort in voyeurism its attempt to become a cutesy romance is awkward and weak.
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‘The Shape of Things’ goes from stage to screen with entertaining grace
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Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz both deliver spectacular performances in this film about a woman who takes a man and molds him into something more.
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‘Calendar Girls’ has its moments, but not many
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This tale of a collection of British women in their elder years who bare all for a calender in order to raise money for a dying friend. While it featured a few funny moments this…
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’21 Grams’ is disorienting and confusing
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While this film is filled with spectacular performances — Penn received an Oscar for his role — the jarring quality of the storytelling takes more away from the actors than it gives.
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‘Runaway Jury’ will leave you feeling swindled… and you’ll like it
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Some still remember John Cusack as the geeky teen in such 80s classics as Say Anything and Better off Dead. In this film Cusack is anything but gawky in a fast-paced thriller about jury tampering.
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‘Love Actually’ is a warm and fuzzy affair
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This film is so sickly sweet that its possible to overdose on the syrupy quality of it all as it packs a lethal punch of numerous London love stories all rolled into one super (long)…
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Douglas Sirk’s ‘Imitation of Life’ (1959) is a bonafide classic
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Douglas Sirks 1959 version was the second adaptation of Fannie Hursts popular novel of the same name about two women — one white the other black — struggling with career and raising their daughters.
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Superhero genre established by ‘Superman II’
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This comic book camp is far above the similar genre films that followed proving Superman is still the leader of all superheroes. But this DVD treatment deserves more than the poor outing it gets.
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Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton are wonderful together in ‘Something’s Gotta Give’
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Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton are glorious in this romantic comedy about a womanizer and a neurotic playwright who hate each other yet find themselves drawn together.