Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 16th, 2003
“Say hello to my little friend!”
This is just one of the many cultural references that have come out of Brian DePalma’s 1983 epic film, Scarface. Al Pacino plays Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee that arrives in the United States with nothing, and leaves with everything. It’s a story about the American Dream, about excess, and about ambition. A fantastic supporting cast (including Michelle Pfeiffer, F. Murray Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and a script by Oliver Stone makes Scarface one of the...greatest gangster films of all time.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 14th, 2003
All The Real Girls is an attempt to delve deeper into the emotional landscape involved with being young and in love. Most movies that try to tackle this very complicated issue often only so a very superficial job. The main thrust of this movie is to examine what it’s actually like to be smitten i.e. not being able to think straight, how desperate our emotions can make us feel and doing things we hadn’t planned and facing the consequences.
Paul (Paul Schneider) is the 22 year old town heart-throb who is wo...king his way through all of the girls in town. His motto is “ love’em and leave’em.” This is contrasted with his soon to be love interest Noel (Zooey Deschanel). Noel is the 18-year-old sister of Paul’s best friend who just returned from 6 years of boarding school. Yikes! I guess Paul never heard of the unwritten rule: never date your best friend’s sister. Of course this leads to difficulties between Paul and Tip (Noel’s brother), and Tip and Noel. The dialogue feels and sounds very natural and very commonplace. It’s as close to the real thing that one is going to find in a movie.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 25th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 23rd, 2003
If you like to nitpick the “that couldn’t happen” stuff in a sci-fi film, this is not the movie for you. The only thing you’ll get out of The Core is a ride. The plot is completely absurd and unlike the very similar Armageddon, this film doesn’t deliver near the action. Special effects range from quite cool to the obvious animations and matte paintings. What impresses me most is that the cast got through this with a straight face. The Core deservedly didn’t perform well at the box office but it is still worth a watch.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 14th, 2003
In the tradition of DVD releases of other classic Disney films, Sleeping Beauty as been given an all-star DVD treatment. Everyone has grown up watching Disney animated classic films, and everyone knows the story. No matter how many time you see these films, they never go out of style… and so is the case with Sleeping Beauty.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 10th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 3rd, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 28th, 2003
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 27th, 2003
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