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Fubar

“Turn up the good, turn down the suck!” yells Dean (Paul Spence) early into this riotously fun movie, and writer-director Michael Dowse does just that from start to end. “FUBAR” (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) blends reality and fiction, taking off from the stand up comedy of Dave Lawrence (who also stars as Terry) and shooting it as a low budget documentary. Like “This is…

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GONE IN 60 SECONDS

Movie Infos Title: Gone in 60 Seconds Year: 2000 Director: Dominic Sena Nicolas Cage has taken a lot of criticism from reviewers and fellow actors alike who resent his following his 1995 Oscar win (over Sean Penn, who happens to be one of his most vocal critics) with a string of big, loud action flicks. I personnally think that it was sound move, as it…

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Casino Royale

“The bitch is dead now.” Can you picture Pierce Brosnan uttering that line? Never mind, Daniel Craig is James Bond now and he ain’t afraid to talk tough, kick ass and get his hands dirty doing it. Right from the striking B&W prologue, which is more film noir than the type of over the top stunts that usually open these movies, you know this ain’t…

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GRIZZLY MAN

In maybe the most instantly gripping opening minute of any movie this year, the late Timothy Treadwell sets the whole thing up himself: “I’m out on the prime cut of the big green, behind me is Ed and Rowdy, members of an up and coming sub-adult gang. They’re challenging everything, including me – goes with the territory. If I show weakness, if I retreat, I may…

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THE CIDER HOUSE RULES

Movie Infos Title: The Cider House Rules Year: 1996 Director: Lasse Hallström “Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England”, softly utters Dr. Wilbur Larsh (Michael Caine) every evening before the children go to sleep, for he is the caretaker and father figure of an orphanage in the Maine countryside. Women experiencing unwanted pregnancies come to him for help, and so he…

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WALK THE LINE

Johnny Cash was the man, “steady like a train and sharp as a razor”, with his guitar he waved around like a rifle, his deep voice and that steel-eyed stare. He’s a country music legend and he acquired further cred in his later years as kind of a damned poet, singing of death and desolation with chilling conviction. What’s maybe not as well known is…

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KISS KISS BANG BANG

Shane Black is best known for writing Lethal Weapon and a few other pretty good action flicks (Last Action Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight), or maybe for playing the one curiously non-buffed commando in Predator – Joel Silver owed him a favour, apparently. He must still be grateful for all the cash the “Lethal Weapon” franchise raked in, because Silver has now produced Black’s directorial debut. “kiss kIss bAng…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The End. Sooner or later we had to come to this. The final film, the final battle, the final goodbyes. It almost instantly became a year-end tradition: a week before Christmas, you got an early gift from Peter Jackson and friends. You went to the multiplex, often for a special midnight screening, and you lost yourself into huge, old-fashioned, brilliant moviemaking. Then for a whole…

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Aurore

I’ve never been a fan of the trend of going back to the popular tales of generations past set in Quebec’s country- side, but this is a new low. At least, Un Homme et son péché vaguely worked as corny romance and Le Survenant had the pretence to be about tradition clashing with a changing world. I guess you could say Aurore is about how…

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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

Hunter S. Thompson aka Raoul Duke is driving his convertible across America, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Thompson’s a writer who lived through the Great Acid Years of San Francisco and is still buzzing through life, 5 years later. On board with him is Dr Gonzo, his lawyer, a man who’s as much addicted as him. They’re heading to the City of Sin to…

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