05/01/08
The hard part about drafting a
film concept around cyber-crime fighters is their job doesn't translate well to the screen. These people peck away in front of a computer day in and day out, hardly the eye candy a filmgoer wants to fixate on for two straight hours. There needs to be a viable excuse for them to get up from their desk and stretch their legs until the credits roll. Otherwise their roles should be restricted to that of the geeky tech nerd dishing out comic....
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04/29/08
David Lean was one of the few filmmakers
who could successfully balance the epic with the intimate. Be it The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, or Dr. Zhivago, Lean's epics gave us breathtaking widescreen visions of far away places while at the same time never losing sight of what really drove his films: character and plot. His winning ways stumbled a bit in 1970 with the Irish epic Ryan's Daughter, a film where....
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04/26/08
It seems like the entire movie-going
world is awaiting the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the latest and likely final chapter in the Indiana Jones series. Ironically, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is leading up to that movie's May 22 release with a Blu-ray iteration of Indy's spiritual successor, the National Treasure movies. Although nobody would ever mistake Nicolas Cage for Harrison Ford, the National....
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04/22/08
As the Blu-ray format continues to introduce
new features such as BD-Live, Picture-in-Picture and D-Box Motion Code support, it's funny to see so many older movies appear in high definition. Films like Commando and Predator make sense on Blu-ray, with their action-packed scenes and cult-like followings, but quirkier titles seem a bit less obvious. Case in point: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a Terry Gilliam film with Eric Idle, a cameo....
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04/15/08
It's ironic that at a time when the
entire world feels at war, when guns and rescue operations make regular appearances on the nightly news, that home-movie audiences are seeing a resurgence of 1980s action films. Never did movie studios spend more on machine guns, blank rounds, near-nuclear explosions and gratuitous violence than in the mid to late 80s, so maybe it's par for the now-desensitized course that these action films are....
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