Date Archives July 2006

Cheaters

Dr. Gerald Plecki (Jeff Daniels) is a teacher at Chicago’s Steinmetz High School, where motivated students are rare and motivated teachers even rarer. This is a situation not that uncommon, but things are really bad…

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SCOOP

Regular readers of this site are aware of my love-hate relationship with Scarlett Johansson. Every time I see that she’s gonna be in a new movie, I get this mixed feeling. On the one hand, I’m…

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Dumb & Dumber

Intelligent movies are great, no doubt about that. Some films are masterpieces that won’t be forgotten. But when you go to the movies, sometimes you just wanna have fun. And well, the big guys in…

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CLERKS II

The opening of Kevin Smith‘s latest directorial effort perfectly recreates the ultra-indie B&W; look of the original, but it soon fires up into color, “Wizard of Oz”-style. The opening also quickly takes care of moving the action…

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DEEP IMPACT

If there’s one thing that I hate, even more than a bad film, it’s a movie that doesn’t assume itself. Like, this film is pretty much a big budget excuse to display special FX of…

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A SCANNER DARKLY

I’m a big fan of Richard Linklater’s movies in general and Waking Life in particular, so I had great expectations for his return to the “interpolated rotoscoping” animation process he put to amazing use in his 2001 dreams-within-dreams flick….

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