An entertaining and refreshingly adult thriller that mostly overcomes the weaknesses of its source material with plenty of style and intelligence and a raft of excellent performances.
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Want to see another Shutter Island trailer? I haven’t watched the other ones and I’m not watching this one, but don’t let that stop you. I’m told the second trailer was the same as the first. Had I watched either one, I might’ve known this.
Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island [...]
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I managed to avoid the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and I’m not about to break down and watch this one. I have no idea how it’s different than the first one, but enjoy.
In case you’ve forgotten, the film based on Dennis Lehane’s novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, [...]
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In this week’s Watercooler we finally catch up to Woody Allen’s latest plus we see if Bruno lives up to the hype and if Transformers is really as bad as they say.
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Below the radar DVD releases for the last two weeks including Two Lovers, Tokyo!, Waltz with Bashir and Phoebe in Wonderland
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Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”
Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]
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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life
It’s a solid week for Movies You May Have Missed. Here are a few more below-radar films that are coming to DVD on Tuesday.
Reprise (2006) ****
Here’s a great movie that I never got around to reviewing, but this is what I [...]
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Penélope Cruz in Elegy
Based on Philip Roth’s novel The Dying Animal, Isabel Coixet’s romantic drama Elegy stars Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh, a college literature professor who spent the sexual revolution of the ’60s married. Eventually abandoning his wife and son, he spent the ensuing years making up for lost time, jumping from one woman [...]
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This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]
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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life
Married Life is difficult to categorize. It takes place in a post-war America at a kind of crossroads; an era before the sexual revolution blurred the lines between gender roles, but a time when some of the forces that led to the [...]
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