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Category: The Twenty-First Century

  • Little Ashes [2009]

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     “And I’ve been insulting myself by letting your shruddy practices, your pathetic, outdated theories and questionable characters shit on my genius”. In 1922, a young Salvador Dali (played by Robert Pattinson) arrives at the university in Madrid and develops a friendship with poet Frederico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and film director Luis Bunel (Mathew McNulty). As…

  • I Love You, Beth Cooper [2009]

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    “Thanks. You hit me with your car. That was pretty cool.” Geeky valedectorian (28 year old Paul Rust) reveals his love for the most popular girl in school (Hayden Panettiere) during his graduation speech, with disastrous consequences. For a minute there I thought this movie had potential. I was wrong; this lame teen comedy actually…

  • Woody Allen Filmography [Part 5]

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    33-Antz (1998): 3/4 34-Celebrity (1999): 2/4 35-Sweet And Lowdown (1999): 2.5/4 36-Small Time Crooks (2000) : 2.5/4 37-Picking Up The Pieces (2000) : 1.5/4 38-The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion (2001): 2.5/4 39-Hollywood Ending (2002): 3/4 40-Anything Else (2003): 2/4

  • Woody Allen Filmography [Part 6]

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    41-Melinda And Melinda (2005): 2/4 42-Match Point (2005): 3/4 43-Scoop (2006): 3/4 44-Cassandra’s Dream (2007): 3/4 45-Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008): 3/4 46-Whatever Works (2009): 3/4

  • The Painted Veil [2006]

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    “When love and duty are one, grace is within you.” Set in 1920 London, this engaging drama tells the story of a bacteriologist who learns that his wife is having an affair. As a punishment, he forces her to accompany him to China, where an outbreak of cholera has occured. This experience eventually brings them…

  • Going The Distance [2010]

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    What makes this romantic movie worth watching is the chemistry between the two leads (Justin Long and Drew Barrymore). Without chemistry, it could have been a disaster. There’s a lot of vulgarity involved, and the “F” word is used over a hundred times, but all is forgiven, thanks to a very likable cast. “Going The Distance” has a…

  • The Last Airbender [2010]

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    “The Last Airbender” is a dreadful movie. And I think it’s the best way to describe it because quite frankly, I can’t see how anyone could enjoy it.  Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, we follow the story of Aang, a young successor to a line a avatars whose purpose is to defeat the fire nation…

  • Despicable Me [2010] ★★★

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    “Does this count as annoying?” Fresh and very funny animated flick about a man named Gru who is planning the biggest heist of all time: he wants to steal the moon! But in order to do so, he must defeat his evil rival Vector (voiced by a very funny Jason Segel). He adopts 3 little girls…

  • The Damned United [2009]

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    Interesting piece of english football history tells the story of Brian Clough, the manager who led Derby County to glory in the 70’s, and how he failed to do the same with Leeds United a few years later. The story focuses on his 44 days of reign as Leeds manager, but cleverly takes us back in time aswell…

  • Orphan [2009]

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    “I think people should always try to take the bad things that happen to them in their lives, and turn them into something good. Don’t you?” Another horror movie in a time when scary movies aren’t that “scary” anymore. “Orphan” is the story of a family that decides to adopt a 9 year old girl who eventually…

  • Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps [2010]

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    I always have my doubts when it comes to sequels, mainly because 90% of the time, they’re never as good as the original work. “Money Never Sleeps” is no exception: it’s a well directed movie, beautifully shot in Manhattan, but as far the story goes, it’s nothing great. Gordon Gekko is now out of jail,…

  • Valkyrie [2008]

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    Interesting slice of German history about an army officer named Colonel Claus Van Stauffenberg (well played by Tom Cruise) who is convinced that Germany must rid itself of Adolphe Hitler after things got out of control during the events of world war 2. He is recruited by German officers and politicians to mastermind an assasination…

  • Che [2008]

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    Never expect too much from a movie, otherwise you might end up disappointed, or in my case, frustrated. From the moment I heard that Benicio Del Toro was playing the role of Ernesto Che Guevara, I knew it was going to be big. Boy was I wrong. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved Del Toro’s performance. But what…

  • Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen [2009]

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    One of the biggest flops of 2009: a big budget movie with nothing to offer at all (even Megan Fox looks ratherbored). This lousy sequel to the 2007 movie made me want to puke. Confession: I enjoyed the first one a lot so  basically I had high expectations for “Revenge Of The Fallen”. But get this: the plot…

  • Extraordinary Measures [2010]

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    I’m well aware that this movie was dismissed by many critics, so basically I had an idea of what to expect from it, yet I found it to be emotionally moving and not bad at all actually. It’s the story of a married couple who tries to find a researcher who might have a cure…

  • The Killer Inside Me [2010]

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    Lou Ford (played by Casey Affleck) is a charming, successful deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. Problem is: he’s also a psychotic killer who enjoys beating women in order to satisfy his sexual needs. When a woman and her man are brutally murdered, he becomes a suspect, but the dude has other plans (more…

  • My Sister’s Keeper [2009]

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    “Most babies are accidents. Not me. I was engineered. Born to save my sister’s life. ” Good, solid drama about a family who decide to conceive a genetically engineered child for the purpose of using her stem cells to save their eldest daugher from cancer. Daring subject, difficult to swallow at times, but also very…

  • Dinner For Shmucks [2010]

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    ” These people  invited us here to make fun of us; this is a contest for the biggest idiot-which I nailed!” If you’re familiar with the french movie “Le Diner De Cons”, then you probably have an idea of what to expect here. But even so, the american version differs greatly from the original one. And that’s not necessarily…

  • The Other Guys [2010]

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      “You have the right to remain silent… but I want to hear you scream! “ And I thought Will Ferell has lost his touch after last year’s mediocre flick “Land Of The Lost”. But he’s still here, doing what he does best. This time around, he teams up with Mark Walhberg (who’s surprisingly funny) as…

  • Charlie St.Cloud [2010]

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    Good to see Zac Efron putting his High School Musical days behind. But there’s still something missing. In Charlie St Cloud, he takes on a much more serious role: the role of a young man who just lost his brother in a terrible car accident. He must now struggle to move on, but it’s no…