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Movies Forgotten In Time: I Come In Peace
25 December 2009 2:36 AM, PST
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Five years after his now legendary performance as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren was enjoying considerable success having starred in a trio of films that include Red Scorpion, (the original) The Punisher and as popular toy figure He-Man in Masters of the Universe. The films ranged from okay to just plain awful, but Lundgren had an onscreen presence that was more than just his six foot five frame. The guy had personality and for a native of Stockholm, Sweden, he could easily adopt an American accent. The nineties saw Lundgren in a string of action films that included Showdown in Little Tokyo with the late Brandon Lee, Universal Soldier with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the Keanu Reeves vehicle Johnny Mnemonic which to this day remains Ludgren's last film that had an American theatrical release. By the close of the decade Lundgren's films were only released straight to video sin the U.
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Ben Runs to Violet's School Before Jetting Off With Jen
7 December 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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Ben Affleck was the one in charge of Violet's school run on Friday afternoon. Jennifer Garner, meanwhile, was busy with re-shoots for Valentine's Day in a familiar outfit after her costars in the film, Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift, did similar work just a few days earlier. It was a special week for Violet with her big fourth birthday, and both her parents were in town for the celebrations. Ben and Jennifer were alone on Saturday night, though, when they were spotted together at Lax heading to catch a late flight. The duo popped up yesterday in San Francisco, where they were spotted eating at the Elite Cafe in Pacific Heights.
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Orphan (DVD Review)
30 November 2009 11:37 AM, PST
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Orphan would seem like another entry into horror’s ‘scary kid’ sub-genre but in reality it draws upon another tried and true plotline, that of the psychotic stranger entering the lives of normal people. We saw the psychotic neighbor in Pacific Heights; the psychotic nanny in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle; the psychotic new dad in The Stepfather; and countless others. For whatever reason, this is a formula that generally tends to produce a decent film. Perhaps it’s the turn from normalcy into deranged killer that fascinates us so much.
John (Peter Sarsgaard) and Kate (Vera Farmiga) (and boy, were those names an accident or a shot at the annoying reality TV stars) have just lost what would have been their third child due to a miscarriage. Distraught Kate is a recovering alcoholic and it seems that her emotional stability can be gained when they decide to adopt a child.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tim Janson)
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Michael Keaton: 'There's a price to pay for making your own choices'
19 November 2009 1:40 PM, PST
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He used to be Beetlejuice and Batman. Now Michael Keaton is a first-time director and a contented man
Michael Keaton is standing in the middle of his London hotel room, transfixed by the widescreen television before him. He holds out the remote control as if he's offering a gift to the gods. The volume goes up, the volume goes down. The image freezes, then fast-forwards. The urge to wrest the handset from him and take charge is overwhelming, and lasts at least until you remember the fabled Keaton temper. ("I'm a good thrower," he once said. "And kicker.") But his doddery behaviour in the face of technology is endearing. Eventually, he hits on the scene he was hunting for. "Wait, you gotta see this," he says breathlessly. "Listen, you hear that song? Oh, man. That's the one we wanted to use but it was too expensive."
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Movie Review - 'Law Abiding Citizen'
16 October 2009 1:34 AM, PDT
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Law Abiding Citizen
Starring Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, and Leslie Bibb
Directed by F. Gary Gray
Rated R
About a dozen years ago, the British evolutionist Richard Dawkins wrote a book called Climbing Mount
Improbable. It has nothing to do with movies, but if Mount Improbable were real, I have no doubt that
the new film Law Abiding Citizen would have its flag planted firmly at the summit.
I don't remember the last film I saw that took itself so seriously and presented itself so gravely and at
the same time is so monumentally unlikely. Somehow, though, you could make the case that Law Abiding
Citizen works, perhaps in spite of itself.
Movies like Pacific Heights and Arlington Road are a lot like this one, films dependent on a
ridiculous chain of circumstances for absolutely anything to move forward. Roger Ebert's dissection of
Arlington Road is a favorite of
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan In For The Resident
30 January 2009 12:38 AM, PST
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan did say he wanted to play dirty after his stint as aaah-so-cuddly Denny Duquette in Grey's Anatomy, and boy, has his agent delivered, with Morgan signed on to play another sociopath in Hammer Films' psych-thriller The Resident, to follow his turn as The Comedian in You-Know-What.Morgan will play the seemingly charming Brooklyn landlord of Hilary Swank's doctor. But before you can say 'Pacific Heights', his character turns out to be a bit crackers, subjecting the young doctor to a terrifying game of cat and mouse.The Resident reunites Swank and Morgan after grievous 2007 rom-com turkey P.S. I Love You, and the results should be more auspicious this time out, with Morgan bringing some of that Comedian misanthropy and Swank back on more familiar territory. Filming is due to start in May, with ex-music video director Antti J. Jokinen making his feature debut behind the camera.
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Blu-Ray Review: Mixed Bag of Clichés, Quality Performances in ‘Lakeview Terrace’
28 January 2009 7:44 AM, PST
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Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
Chicago – Neil Labute’s “Lakeview Terrace” delivers as close to the “marginal thumbs up or down” line as any movie released in 2008. There are some intriguing ideas about race and excellent performances, but the film feels like a missed opportunity to be something greater, even if a strong Blu-Ray release helps the final product.
The issues of racial and social tension used to belong to the “urban drama,” films set in major downtown cities like New York or L.A.. “Lakeview Terrace” tries to take some of those themes and move them to the suburbs. Neil Labute, the famous playwright and writer/director of at least two above-average films - “In the Company of Men” and “The Shape of Things” - has always been fascinated by how good people co-exist with evil, making him a better fit for this “suburban drama” than you might first expect.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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