Posts Tagged ‘3.5/5 stars’
Mini Review: Sex and the City 2
SEX AND THE CITY 2 (In Theaters) It’s been 2 years since Carrie married Big in Sex and the City movie #1, but things haven’t changed too much: Carrie and Big have moved to a more modest apartment, Charlotte is dealing with her new daughter Rose’s “terrible two’s,” Samantha is menopausal but still manages to [...]
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Mini Review: The Persuaders
THE PERSUADERS (PBS FRONTLINE) (On DVD) The tag describes it perfectly– what’s going on in the world of today’s marketers and advertisers? Made in 2004, this documentary is still 100% relevant in the world of the “persuaders” and discusses such modern campaigns as the revolutionary iPod ads and the way Bush and Kerry used advertising [...]
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LOST IN LA MANCHA (On DVD) A hilarious documentary about Terry Gilliam’s totally disastrous attempt to make a Don Quixote movie. After floods, military bomb testing, serious actor injuries and many other “acts of God,” the movie was abandoned and everything was turned over to the insurance companies. (2002) My film teacher Bill always says [...]
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Mini Reviews: The Hurt Locker
Bottom Line: Good idea, good characters, good cinematography, good editing, good sound design, good directing, good acting– but not for me. But if you’re a war movie junkie, this movie is pretty badass. 3.5/5 stars.
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Mini Reviews: A Single Man
Bottom Line: If you have an eye for art or an ear for music, you’ll find something in this film. Otherwise, it’s a very predictable, drawn out story of a man on the edge. 3.5/5 stars on the whole, 5/5 stars for cinematography and music.
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Mini Reviews: Up in the Air
UP IN THE AIR (in theaters) In the down economy, a suave businessman is hired to travel across the country and fire people for bosses who don’t want to get their hands dirty. A young college grad develops a program to fire people over the internet and he must take her on the road to [...]
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