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Semi-Pro

    Semi-Pro is a Will Ferrell-lead comedy set in the ‘70’s and milking the decade for all of its fashion mishaps and funky hairstyles. Although very similar to most of Ferrell’s movies, this one…

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EVE’S BAYOU

You probably never even heard of this wonderful little film. I didn’t either until I watched Siskel & Ebert’s Best of 97 show, in which Roger Ebert called “Eve’s Bayou” the best film of the…

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Blue Crush

So I got played one more time, like every time they market a movie around the sexiness of its actresses. You’d think I’d learned by now that “hot babes flicks” always turn out disappointing but…

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EASY RIDER

Movie Infos Title: Easy Rider Rating: Year: 1969 Director: Dennis Hopper If one movie can evoke a whole era, this is it. It looks, feels and smells like the 60s inside out. What makes it…

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2015 log (10)

(1 Oct) Commando (1985, Mark L. Lester)100 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] (2 Oct) The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott)92 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] (5 Oct) Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson)59 [ Reviewed on…

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50 First Dates

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love the movies of Happy Madison, Sandler’s production company. It’s pretty much always the same deal: Sandler’s a quirky (slacker/golf player/waterboy/ aquarium veterinarian) who sometimes…

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INTACTO

Movie Infos Title: Intacto Year: 2003 Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo They say Samuel (Max von Sydow) is a “god of chance”. He survived the concentration camps as a child while millions of his fellow Jews…

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Death Proof

  In Scott Frank’s surprisingly great “The Lookout”, we’re told at some point that accident victims who suffer frontal-lobe trauma sometimes lose their inhibitions. Far be it from me to suggest that Quentin Tarantino got…

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HOSTEL

Some people can’t stand arrogant boldness and confidence. One of the best ways for a filmmaker to attract surefire criticism is to start blabbering about how great he is. How many can’t stand Quentin Tarantino…

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MUNICH

There’s something about violence that I’ve always instinctively understood but that the world at large, evidently, fails to grasp: violence only leads to more violence. If you have a quarrel with somebody and you go…

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