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Star Trek’s on DVD Today!
MCN Review by Kim Voynar: Having seen the new Star Trek now, I must admit that I was wrong, because J.J. Abrams, boldly going where others have gone before (and frequently failed), successfully reboots the franchise in this action-packed tweaking of the Trek universe. MCN Review by David Poland: My central problem with the film…
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Review: Amelia
MCN Review: Amelia is an old-fashioned, over-romantic movie, but likably so. It’s true that director Mira Nair and writers Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan don‘t spring many surprises here, while telling us the story of the famed trailblazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart — an iconic American figure of the ‘20s and ‘30s who vanished over the Pacific while on…
Read the full article »Review: Where the Wild Things Are
MCN Review: Some children’s stories work primarily for children. Some please both children and adults. But some are mostly for adults — and I think that may be the case with Spike Jonze’s new movie from Maurice Sendak‘s famous 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze film takes Sendak’s spare little book, which…
Read the full article »Review: Law Abiding Citizen
MCN Review: For sheer lunatic improbability and bad ideas (and even bad punctuation), Law Abiding Citizen will be hard to top. Even its social message (Don’t make bad court deals, but kill Clyde before he kills Philadelphia) is foolish. Writer Wimmer and director F. Gary Gray (Friday and The Negotiator) seem to be intent primarily…
Read the full article »The Power of Film … Anne Frank
July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived…
Read the full article »MCN Review: Whip It!
MCN Review: Whip It! Is it perfection? No. But it is a warm, funny, kind, smart, loving movie that girls, grrrrrls, women, and womyn will really enjoy. It is entertainment with ambition. And how does one say, “no” to that? (it’s a rhetorical question… one doesn’t.) More>>
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Read the full article »Review: A Single Man
Tom Ford, as a first timer, does a nice job creating a living, breathing Vanity Fair magazine. The film is pretty. And Colin Firth is excellent as a closed off, pained man who feels his life is over with the loss of his lover. It’s the kind of performance in the kind of movie that…
Read the full article »Review: 9
MCN Review: Incredible animated visuals adorn this dystopian fantasy-fable, expanded by director-story writer Shane Acker from his Oscar-nominated short, and produced by a combine that includes Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. The short was, more simply, a wordless chase duel between 9 and the monster. The movies adds the other eight robots and gives them…
Read the full article »Review: Ponyo
Ponyo (Three-and-a-Half Stars) by Mike Wilmington Hayao Miyazaki‘s devotion to old-fashioned animation, in an age of computerized cartoon virtuosity of all sorts, gives his movies a charmingly personal, beguilingly hand-crafted feel — never more so than in his latest picture, Ponyo. Another international collaboration between Miyazaki and one of the masters of the new computer…
Read the full article »Review: Julie & Julia
MCN Review Entertaining as the movie is, the comparison of Julia‘s stimulating literary/political milieu (Child and Paul have to cope with the McCarthy era as well as the vagaries of diplomatic and culinary careers) and Julie‘s more superficial ain’t-we-cute domain, are all on the side of Child. Late in the movie, when we hear that…
Read the full article »JFK speaks and later man walks on the moon
“Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of…
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MCN Review: Kim Voynar As Brüno, Cohen makes no attempt to soften the punches as he stares America’s homophobia right in the face and dares it to blink first. While Brno’s completely outrageous and inappropriate in almost every conceivable way, there’s nothing superfluous in the way he’s refracting cultural mindsets and values back at us….
Read the full article »A Basterd’s Work is Never Done
“I think you show great talent. And I pride myself on having an eye for that kind of talent. Your status as a Nazi killer is… still amateur. We all come here to see if you wanna go pro… ” The other 13 posters are here.
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