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| My Sister’s Keeper |
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, My Sister’s Keeper is the story of the Fitzgerald family. More specifically, it is the story of the ability of the Fitzgerald family to handle the impending death of their oldest daughter, Kelly (Sofia Vassilevia). Kelly was diagnosed with an acute… |
Dana Place |
06/26/09 |
5 |
07/23/09 |
| Before There Was Digital |
Before There Was Digital is going to be an ongoing series where I take current movie news and use it as an excuse to talk about movies you may have missed from the good old days of (mostly) practical effects and magnetic tape. You’ll find that those excuses will from… |
Dana Place |
06/23/09 |
2 |
06/24/09 |
| The Hangover |
What could go wrong when four men get together for one last night of single guy debauchery before their friend gets married? Nothing really, as long as stolen police cars, Mike Tyson’s tiger, and unclaimed children are common occurrences around your house. Throw in sin city along with the inability… |
Dana Place |
06/05/09 |
2 |
06/24/09 |
| Monsters vs Aliens |
Monsters vs. Aliens had such promise. Take famous B movie monsters, throw in an alien invasion, make it family friendly, keep the parents entertained with the occasional popculture reference, and you have yourself a movie everyone could be happy with. Somewhere in the middle of the film, the wheels came… |
Dana Place |
03/26/09 |
0 |
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| The Unborn |
Odette Yustman Gary Oldman Megan Good Cam Gigandnet Carla Gugino Written and directed: David S. Goyer The Unborn is a film that at first glance can go either way. It is a January horror film with more than a few pretty tweeners getting scared and running around like crazy. The… |
Dana Place |
01/09/09 |
0 |
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| Transporter 3 |
I wouldn’t call myself a fan of the Transporter series of films. The second film had just enough over the top action to make it enjoyable and I barely remember the first film. Writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen managed to make a film that will stick in my… |
Dana Place |
11/26/08 |
1 |
03/25/09 |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno |
First off, it would be pretty easy to say with Zach and Miri Make a Porno, that Kevin Smith has finally grown up. This is his first film that isn’t stuffed with friends from high school or cameos from people that happen to be industry buddies. Using real comedy actors,… |
Dana Place |
10/31/08 |
1 |
11/12/09 |
| Eleventh Hour 1.02: Cardiac |
In the second episode of Eleventh Hour, entitled “Cardiac”, a small southern town is plagued by otherwise healthy 11 year old boys dropping dead of heart attacks. Dr. Hood and agent Sheldon learn that the kids in the town have taken to licking toads. While not the source of the… |
Dana Place |
10/23/08 |
1 |
03/21/09 |
| Eleventh Hour (1-01): Resurrection |
Everything you need to know about Eleventh Hour, the screenwriters were nice enough to put together in the first ten minutes of the first episode. The premise of the show follows Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell), one of the smartest scientists on the planet and his trusty sidekick, and all round… |
Dana Place |
10/14/08 |
0 |
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| AFI Dallas: Patrick Creadon write an I.O.U.S.A. |
The Dallas AFI film festival this year is screening a documentary by Patrick Creadon, entitled I.O.U.S.A. Fresh off of his work on the critically and financially successful documentary Wordplay, he has created a film documenting America’s obsession with debt, both publicly and privately, and its affect on the security of… |
Dana Place |
08/21/08 |
0 |
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| Get Smart |
It’s always nice when a remake is able to stand on it’s own two feet and entertain you while still paying homage to it’s roots. In this case the comedic geniuses Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. The original was a spy comedy following the socially awkward and physically inept agent… |
Dana Place |
06/18/08 |
0 |
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| Twenty One |
Over the last five years or so, cable television and eventually network television dedicated entire programs to watching other people play poker. Big budget films have been dedicated to or have used playing poker as a plot device to move a film along. Poker, and card games for that matter,… |
Dana Place |
03/28/08 |
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| Doomsday |
Almost a year ago to the day, New Line Cinema hired Gerard Butler straight off his success as King Leonidas in the film 300 to play the role of Snake Plisskin in a planned remake of the John Carpenter film, Escape from New York. For years, George Miller has been… |
Dana Place |
03/14/08 |
1 |
10/24/08 |