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Dukes

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Peter Bogdanovich, Miriam
Margolye…
Review:
Here’s the little movie that could, a potent directing debut for
actor Robert Davi, an immortal Bond villain in License to
Kill. Davi plays Danny DePasquale, a star in his 20s when he
and his chubby-chaser pal George Zucco (Chazz Palminteri, in top
form) lead a doo-wop group called the Dukes. Cut ahead a few
decades, and the guys are struggling in California, working in an
Italian restaurant run by their Aunt Vee (Miriam Margolyes) and
hassling their manager (a terrific Peter Bogdanovich) to repackage
them as an oldies group. Danny and George dream of turning Aunt
Vee’s trattoria into a doo-wop club. But who has the bucks? So they
cook up a heist that defines the term “fool’s gold.” For all the
kickass fun, Davi offers a moving portrait of a man caught in the
process of trying to…

Rating: 3 Stars

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The Dukes

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Robert Davi, Chazz Palminteri
Review:
Here’s the little movie that could, a potent directing debut for
actor Robert Davi, an immortal Bond villain in License to
Kill. Davi plays Danny DePasquale, a star in his 20s when he
and his chubby-chaser pal George Zucco (Chazz Palminteri, in top
form) lead a doo-wop group called the Dukes. Cut ahead a few
decades, and the guys are struggling in California, working in an
Italian restaurant run by their Aunt Vee (Miriam Margolyes) and
hassling their manager (a terrific Peter Bogdanovich) to repackage
them as an oldies group. Danny and George dream of turning Aunt
Vee’s trattoria into a doo-wop club. But who has the bucks? So they
cook up a heist that defines the term “fool’s gold.” For all the
kickass fun, Davi offers a moving portrait of a man caught in the
process of trying to…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Christmas Tale

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments


A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel) Photo
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Review:
Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is
usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses
the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout,
tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head
around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should
say that Mom (Catherine Deneuve, still an actress and beauty to die
for) is slipping away from liver cancer.
So what makes this one magic? Start with director Arnaud
Desplechin, who co-wrote the deft script with Emmanuel Bourdieu.
Desplechin (Kings and Queen, How I Got Into an
Argument) is a world-class filmmaker, not some studio hack. He
can maintain a light touch even in the face of tragedy. He can
layer a film so that it’s always springing surprises. He can
reference…

Rating: 3 Stars

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A Christmas Tale

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments


A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel) Photo
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Review:
Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is
usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses
the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout,
tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head
around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should
say that Mom (Catherine Deneuve, still an actress and beauty to die
for) is slipping away from liver cancer.
So what makes this one magic? Start with director Arnaud
Desplechin, who co-wrote the deft script with Emmanuel Bourdieu.
Desplechin (Kings and Queen, How I Got Into an
Argument) is a world-class filmmaker, not some studio hack. He
can maintain a light touch even in the face of tragedy. He can
layer a film so that it’s always springing surprises. He can
reference…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Quantum of Solace

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Daniel Craig
Review:
So shoot me. I left the action rush of this follow-up to the
terrific 2006 Casino Royale feeling bummed out by James
Bond. Well, not by the Bond of Daniel Craig — he’s still one
nasty-ass dude, with the kind of rough-edged style that the 007
franchise hasn’t seen since the glory days of Sean Connery. But the
character fun seems to have gone out the window in Quantum of
Solace, a fancy-shmancy title (the only thing borrowed from
Ian Fleming’s short story) for a movie that pours crude oil all
over the subtle pleasures and sexy beats that came before.
The new movie picks up a few minutes after the last one. Big car
chase (all together now: eww!) as Bond, barely recovered
from the death of his lady love Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), burns
rubber all over Italy with the wiggling body of…

Rating: 2 Stars

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Soul Men

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments


Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson in 'Soul Men' Photo
Starring:
Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes
Review:
There’s a shining moment in this uneven spin on Grumpy Old
Men when Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, playing feuding
backup singers on an R&B comeback tour, stop in the desert to
change a flat tire. Instead, they break into an impromptu version
of the soul classic “I’m Your Puppet,” riffing off each other with
waves of affection that flow right off the screen. Mac died shortly
after wrapping the movie, as did Isaac Hayes, who does a cameo as
himself. Soul Men is a chance to salute these masters of
mirth and music. Take it.

Rating: 2 Stars

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Role Models

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments


Sean William Scott in 'Role Models' Photo
Starring:
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Elizabeth Banks
Review:
Sometimes a shamelessly stoopid, proudly profane R-rated comedy
is all you want out of life. Role Models more than fills
the bill. It’s killer funny. Cheers to Paul Rudd — he should
be a star by now — who takes just the right wry comic tone as
Danny, an L.A. misanthrope flushing his life down the shitter.
Danny and his sex-crazed partner, Wheeler (Seann William Scott, the
immortal Stifler), earn cash by selling Minotaur energy drinks.
Wheeler wears the hairy costume. Danny drives the monster truck,
until self-loathing prods him to use the vehicle as a WMD. The
result is a jail sentence that Danny’s lawyer love (the underused
Elizabeth Banks) gets reduced to 150 hours of community service,
but not before dumping him.
And so sit meets com, as our boys are enlisted by Sturdy…

Rating: 3 Stars

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments



Starring:
David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Asa Butterfield
Review:
You may not buy into actors playing Nazis with high-toned Brit
accents, but the power of this Holocaust tale sneaks up and floors
you. Writer-director Mark Herman has adapted John Boyne’s novel
with admirable restraint.
Eight-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) isn’t pleased when he and
older sister Gretel (Amber Beattie) are forced to leave their
friends in Berlin and settle in a remote area where Bruno’s
commandant father (David Thewlis) has been stationed. The kids and
their mother (Vera Farmiga) believe the fence they see outside
their window encloses a farm, not a concentration camp. Bruno even
ventures out of bounds and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), the boy in
striped pajamas behind the fence. They develop a dangerous, covert
friendship with devastating results.
Delicate…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Repo! The Genetic Opera

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Starring:
Paris Hilton
Review:
The idea of the director of Saw II, III and IV
going at Paris Hilton seems like just revenge for her punishable
assaults on acting. In this atonal, faux-arty rock opera about a
futuristic bull market in internal organs, Hilton is suitably
clueless as Amber Sweet, the daughter of an aria-singing mob boss
(Paul Sorvino). Amber trades in her organs like fashion
accessories. But a new pancreas costs money. Don’t pay, and the
Repo Man will tear out your guts. It gets worse, much worse.
Talented actors are involved, and I will spare them by not citing
their names. “Happiness is a warm scalpel,” sings Hilton. Misery is
enduring this Rocky Horror Paris Show.

Rating: 0 Stars

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments


Zack and Miri Make a Porno Photo
Starring:
Seth Rogan, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes
Review:
If there is such a thing as a stroke flick for your funnybone,
then Zack and Miri is it. Writer-director Kevin Smith is
back on comedy terra firma, after Jersey Girl drowned in
goo and Clerks II defined backsliding. For those who
wonder what happened to the Smith of the first Clerks and
Chasing Amy, here’s your answer.
Seth Rogen, on loan from the Judd Apatow hit factory, is Zack,
the scruffy chubmeister slacking his life away as a barista at
Bean-N-Gone in a corner of Pittsburgh. Zack shares a funky dump of
an apartment with his best friend, Miri (Elizabeth Banks trying
futilely not to look like a blond goddess). These platonic BFFs
don’t have sex, except for money.
Let me explain: Zack and Miri can’t pay the rent. At their high
school reunion, Miri runs into her football-hero crush,…

Rating: 3 Stars

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