Film Preview: Klara and the Sun (2026)
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The DVD Report #53
Short films have been a staple of the movies since the beginning. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, short films – both live action and animated, were part of the movie going experience for everyone. Though there were no specific rules about their exhibition, the shorter films, roughly those running ten minutes or less,…
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Film Preview: Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: While the poster isn’t terribly creative nor terribly evocative, it is nonetheless pleasing to the eyes. Blending tans, greens and whites effectively, the poster has a simple elegance that features images of the…
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Film Preview: Finding Amanda (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C- Review: All I could think of while watching this…
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The DVD Report #52
One of last year’s best films, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, was nominated for four Oscars and won numerous other awards. Julian Schnabel won the Best Director award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for the film based on the autobiography of Jean Dominique…
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Review: Superhero Movie (2008)
Superhero Movie Rating Director Craig Mazin Screenplay Craig Mazin Length 85 min. Starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Marion Ross, Ryan Hansen, Keith David, Brent Spiner, Robert Joy, Jeffrey Tambor, Robert Hays, Nicole Sullivan, Sam Cohen, Tracy Morgan, Regina Hall MPAA Rating PG-13 (for crude and sexual content, comic violence,…
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Film Preview: Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Resembling the ad art for most television series, the film’s poster is hardly interesting. Instead, it’s a Picket Fences-style simplistic design. Trailer Rating: B- Review: Luke Wilson may finally have a modest hit…
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Film Preview: The Dhamma Brothers (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: B- Review: The subject seems intriguing, violent criminals finding peace…
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Film Preview: College (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Perfectly descriptive of the film’s subject, the poster’s simple yet evocative image captures most aspects of the movie. Trailer Rating: B Review: While I’m doubtful the movie will be more than a modern…
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Film Preview: I Served the King of England (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C Review: The trailer made this film seem like another…
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The DVD Report #51
It’s Philip Seymour Hoffman week at the DVD store. The actor, who won an Oscar for Capote two years ago, starred in three of 2008’s major films, all newly released on DVD. Once you get over the sight of Hoffman in the altogether that opens Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, you discover that the…
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Film Preview: The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: If it weren’t being released in May, I’d…
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Film Preview: Loaded (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C Review: When television stars make big screen movies, they…
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Film Preview: Mother of Tears (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Far, far too much red. It’s the common theme for horror posters in the past two years. You would think they would attempt to differentiate themselves from one another, but this unexceptional product…
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Film Preview: Glass, a Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: While I’ll give them applause for using the piano’s open cover to display their title, the poster itself rather messy and uninspired. Unless you know or care who Philip Glass is, this poster…
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The DVD Report #50
I’m not clairvoyant. I don’t have a crystal ball. I have no way of knowing which films from any given year will stand the test of time. Yet every now and then the films that I love from a particular year turn out to be more popular over time than those that were more widely…
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