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Reviews of movies. (Moderated)
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Review: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009)
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Film Review - The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 2009 By Tim Voon 3.5 out of 5 stars If anyone is familiar with director Terri Gilliam's work, you will be expecting a visual feast and a very difficult to follow story line. The cult classic 'Brazil 1985' will jump to mind - visually stunning, emotionally stirring but ummm, but as to the storyline, what... more »
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Review: Mao's Last Danger (2009)
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Film Review - Mao's Last Dancer 2009 By Tim Voon 4 out of 5 stars If anyone is guessing as to the peculiarity of this title, it refers to a period in China's turbulent history, during the time of the Cultural Revolution when anything and everything remotely associated with the West was burned, ridiculed and its protagonists imprisoned or... more »
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Review: The Blind Side (2009)
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THE BLIND SIDE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2009 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** THE BLIND SIDE is a wonderfully old-fashioned and decidedly inspirational sports film that will call to mind many other movies, especially ones like RUDY, in which an unlikely player makes it. But THE BLIND SIDE does have at... more »
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Review: A Christmas Carol (2009)
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A Christmas Carol - Generous on Effects but Stingy on Feeling by Homer Yen (c) 2009 Tis the season, and here's the gift that keeps on giving. Bill Murray "Scrooged" us on the big screen back in the late 80s. Patrick Stewart did his one-man show on Broadway in the 90s. And countless TV shows integrated the Charles Dickens classic into their plots during... more »
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Review: Pirate Radio (2009)
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PIRATE RADIO A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2009 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** "If God was a DJ, he'd be on this boat," declares one of the DJs aboard a boat called Radio Rock. Permanently stationed off the coast of Britain in 1966, the very dilapidated, old fishing boat provides the homeland their... more »
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Review: We Live In Public (2009)
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WE LIVE IN PUBLIC Directed by: Ondi Timoner Review by: Tristán Harvey E. White Rating: (0 to *****): ***** (five stars) I was privileged to attend last week a special screening in London of this incredible documentary, followed by a thorough Q&A session with the "star" of the film, Josh Harris, "the greatest Internet pioneer... more »
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Retrospective: Twilight (2008)
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Film Review - Twilight 2008 By Tim Voon 3 out of 5 stars With the upcoming release of NEW MOON 2008, I thought I had better do my overdue review of TWILIGHT, Part one of the TWILIGHT SAGA. I first can across this movie in December 2008, during my travels abroad. I had finished a rather eventful day at Universal Studios,... more »
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Review: 2012 (2009)
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Film Review - 2012 made 2009 By Tim Voon 3 out of 5 stars Think of every disaster movie you have ever seen put it all together in a cauldron and add the whiz bang magical ingredient of the latest special effects and you have the big bang of a movie 2012. Remember the eruptive forces of VOLCANO 2007 and DANTE's PEAK 2007,... more »
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Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
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Film Review - The Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009 By Tim Voon 3 out of 5 stars NEW MOON is the second book in the Stephanie Meyer best selling series THE TWILIGHT SAGA. It is also the lull point of this saga as much as THE TWO TOWERS was a lull point for THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY. This is not to say that it is of any less consequence than the other... more »
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Retrospective: 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
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20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Three stars and a half I've been a fan of Ray Harryhausen since I was a kid, especially the sights of stop-motion animation in everything from "Jason and the Argonauts" and its dueling skeletons, to the rampaging dinosaur in "Valley of the Gwangi" to all those mythological creatures come to... more »
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