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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
Written by
Darren Gross
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Young, childlike doll, Shitface, is haunted by recurring nightmares where he brutally murders people. A sad, gentle soul, Shitface (voiced by Billy Boyd), is a living doll being exploited by phony punk ventriloquist, Psychs (Keith-Lee Castle), who keeps him caged when he’s not using him in his stage act. After appearing at the Glastonbury Ventriloquist Festival, Shitface sees a TV show, featuring a backstage glimpse of an upcoming horror movie starring talking dolls Chucky and Tiffany (voiced by Brad Dourif and Meg Tilly), and notices that Chucky has the same birthmark as him—a “Made in Japan” stamp, branded onto his wrist. After escaping from Psychs, Shitface ships himself off to the Hollywood set, via international mail, determined to find the two horror stars, whom he’s certain are his parents.
Unfortunately for Shitface, when he arrives in Hollywood, he finds that the ...
Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
Written by
El Bicho
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Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Shaara, “For Love of the Game” tells the story of Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner), a baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. He has had a 19-season career that should get him into the Hall of Fame, but those glory days are long behind him. The Tigers are in the bottom of the standings and Chapel’s 40-year-old arm is bothering him.
As the film opens, the team is in New York to play the Yankees, who are battling the Red Sox for the pennant at the close of the season. Beating the Tigers is just a formality. The night before the game, Chapel has dinner plans set with Jane (Kelly Preston); this appears to be a regular occurrence; however, he is stood up. When morning comes, he is very upset that she didn’t ...
Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
Written by
El Bicho
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"Battlestar Galactica: Season One" presents Ronald D. Moore’s reimagined miniseries and the 13 episodes of the first season. While using the 1970’s version as a template, there are a lot of great changes to the update making it superior to the original. It’s been given a much more serious and dramatic tone and deals with modern-day events in the War on Terror. Aside from the changes of gender and nationality to some of the characters, the show’s most important distinction from the past is that Man created the Cylons.
The miniseries opens with titles informing us of the Cylon War between human beings and the Cylons, evidently robots. After the armistice was signed, yearly summits were scheduled between the two groups but the Cylons didn’t appear until the 40th year. It is revealed to the viewer that Cylons can take human ...
Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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A few years ago, David Cronenberg made “A History of Violence,” starring Viggo Mortensen. It seemed to be a deviation from the well-regarded Canadian director, formerly a specialist in distinctive horror movies. But “Eastern Promises,” also with Mortensen, is similar to “History,” as it’s also a layered, deeply felt story of crime and criminals. In its storytelling, it’s more mainstream than Cronenberg’s usual films (although “The Fly” was straightforward as well), but few mainstream movies have characters this rich while still being occasionally as gruesomely violent as Cronenberg’s less, um, sophisticated fans want. It’s an outstanding movie, one of the best of 2007, and Mortensen fully deserved his best actor Oscar nomination.
Set in London, “Eastern Promises” opens with scenes of a barber, Azim (Mina E. Mina), slashing the throat of a customer, then a young woman hemorrhaging in a chemist ...
Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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Please see our archived review of the theatrical release of “Zodiac” on ModernHomeTheater.com. That commentary and opinion still stand regarding this HD DVD release.
This is a two-disc set, the first disc containing the feature itself, here a few minutes longer than in theaters—but you’d have to be more of an expert on the film than I am to identify the new material. (You can find it on the IMDb page for “Zodiac.”) In the commentary track that features actors Robert Downey, Jr., Jake Gyllenaal, screenwriter/producer James Vanderbilt, producer Brad Fischer and novelist James Ellroy (who has nothing to do with the movie), occasionally someone points out a scene that was cut from the theatrical release, but this isn’t done with any regularity.
Both of the commentary tracks are very worthwhile. Director Fincher is soft-spoken but thorough, clearly very well-informed on filmmaking ...
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