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Van Helsing

Van Helsing is the first major entry into the summer action movie race and a worthy adversary for the Trojans and superheroes to come. The film is an old time atmospheric monster movie and resembles one of the monster mash movies of the 1940s like Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman. Imagine giving those B-film directors a [Read More …]

Mean Girls

Mean girls fits into the genre of adolescent angst films like a glove. But don’t be mistaken, the film is much more cleverly written than your standard teenage fare. Credit Tina Fey the head writer for Saturday Night Live for the writing, a blend of traditional stereotype jokes and subtle cutting humor. The teen film [Read More …]

Lost In Translation

Lost in Translation is like a great dessert. It is a surprising confection that melts in your mouth and lingers there, leaving you, over time, to remember it fondly. It is a small story, no big story arc, no big scenes or explosions, it is the story of two people, Murray’s Bob Harris, and Johanson’s [Read More …]

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Once again Quentin Tarantino delivers a killer cool over the top film that impresses. In Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Tarantino’s fourth film he shows us why he has had such an impact on film with s o few movies. Here he is distilling the spirit, and many of the major plot elements of many of [Read More …]

Matchstick Men

Nicholas Cage has made his career playing quirky characters with nervous habits and other issues. Here he combines all of them together to create Roy Waller a neurotic conman who suffers from agoraphobia, obsessive compulsive, and a number of other disorders. He is also a con man. A scam artist who justifies his work because [Read More …]

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