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Review: Brokeback Mountain

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 9, 2005 @ 11:59am

Okay, gather around, I want to tell you the story of the time I spent on Brokeback Mountain.

Now, imagine someone saying that while you are sitting around a campfire and there is nothing but you, the crackling flame, and the storyteller. There is nothing in the world but those three things.

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Review: Syriana

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 9, 2005 @ 11:59am

Emerging director Stephen Gaghan is best known for writing the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film Traffic but he also wrote and directed the dreadful film Abandon with Katie Holmes, and also wrote the disaster The Alamo.

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Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 9, 2005 @ 11:59am

It is probably one of those stories you remember from your childhood. With wide-eyed innocence, you open your closet door and walk to the back hoping that you will enter the magical world of talking animals, governed by a noble lion, and a land where children can be heroes. I don't know about you, but I did it.

The classic novel series by British author C.S.

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Review: The World's Fastest Indian

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 7, 2005 @ 11:59am

When I heard the name of this film, the first thing that came to mind was that Disney film from the 1970s called The World's Fastest Athlete. I was not familiar with the life and legacy of Burt Munro and that there was a classic motorcycle called an Indian.

New Zealand-born Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) has an obsession.

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Review: Transamerica

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 2, 2005 @ 11:59am

Has there ever been a road movie quite like this? Not that I am aware of. And you know, that's why it's so fun.

Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as Bree, a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual who is about to realize her life-long dream of becoming a fully realized woman.

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Review: Bee Season

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 2, 2005 @ 11:59am

Do films like Pay it Forward and The Life of David Gale make you squeamish or violently ill? Do you like it when a 7-foot hairy man beats you over the head with a mallet marked "film concept"?

As the new film, Bee Season, concluded, I was reminded that once more Hollywood was screaming from one of their mystical pulpits and trying to reach out to the masses.

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Review: Aeon Flux

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  December 2, 2005 @ 11:59am

In the new sci-fi film, Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, an ultra-slick infiltrative revolutionary in the distant future. Her body has been enhanced with all sorts of gadgets and gizmos, and honed to perfection.

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Review: Just Friends

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  November 23, 2005 @ 11:59am

The year is 1995. All-4-One are atop the pop charts and Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) is finally graduating from high school. After five long years of being tortured by the school jocks for being the fattest kid in school, he is finally ready to get out into the real world.

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Review: Yours, Mine, & Ours

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  November 23, 2005 @ 11:59am

During this time of year we are always force-fed some family holiday film that tries to teach us a valuable lesson. I am not talking about The Santa Clause or The Grinch. I am talking about sappy detrimental films like 2003's Cheaper by the Dozen and others.

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Review: The Ice Harvest

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  November 23, 2005 @ 11:59am

Pushing Tin co-stars John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton re-team for the dark comedy, The Ice Harvest.

Cusack plays Charlie Arglist, who is an attorney in Wichita, Kansas and has just embezzled $2 million dollars. Together with his partner, Vic (Billy Bob Thornton), Charlie plans on leaving Wichita forever on Christmas Eve.

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