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Public Enemies is one of those rare films that boasts numerous outstanding attributes (great cast, great story, great direction, great cinematography) but somehow fails to amount to the sum of its parts.
A film like My Sister's Keeper is so difficult to review from a critical standpoint: it's not a film that loses itself in melodrama but rather a film that shamelessly aspires to be just that.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes place 2 years after Transformers. The Autobots are secretly working with the Government to destroy the last remaining Decepticons. But the Decepticons regroup, bring Megatron back to life and deal a HUGE blow to the Autobots.
Interview: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen special effects guru Scott Farrar of ILM
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 22, 2009 @ 6:39pm
Special effects are an important part of the movie business. From May to September each year, movie studios big and small try to blow audiences with their biggest budget releases of the year, and the majority of these are centered on the special effects.
What happens when the director of Forty Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow), the creator of Ghost Busters (Harold Ramis) and some of the world's most talented comedic actors (Jack Black, Michael Cera) get together and make a movie? Well, let's just say not exactly what you'd expect.
The problem with recent romantic comedies is that they all seem spliced from the same Petri dish. A few variables change slightly: stars (Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson), settings (wedding in Rhode Island or wedding in New York) and plot details; but the general lackluster style remains unvaried.
Heist movies are great. I love putting the plan that's unfolding onscreen under a microscope and picking it apart. Who doesn't like to think they are smarter than a criminal mastermind? Without even seeing Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, I had a pretty good idea why the heist was bound to fail and what I'd do differently.
There are few phenomena in this universe as evocative and imbued with as much symbolic power as a lightening bolt. When one gazes at these pillars of light descending from the heavens, charged with devastating potential, one understands why pre-technological societies believed them the instruments of gods.
In the realm of world cinema, Norwegian film remains largely unknown -- perhaps eclipsed by their Scandinavian neighbors, Sweden and Denmark. While Norway has a long cinematic tradition, dating back to the first decade of the twentieth century, only seven to eight features are produced annually and most productions remain unavailable to English-speaking audiences.
Up is the latest installment of Disney's long list of classic movies. The film is about an elderly man named Carl Fredricksen who, when he is forced to move out of his longtime home, decides to go on the adventure he and his late wife never got to go on.
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