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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a hard nut to crack.  From the outset, it’s difficult to tell if what you’re watching is meant to be dead...

Jennifer
American Gangster (2007)

American Gangster (2007)

It’s beefy, both in running time and content, and filled from open to close with bad guys, good buys, flying bullets, violence, drugs, murder, chase sequences and some stellar...

Vickie
Extract

Extract

After the cult success of Office Space, and the beloved long-running animated series King of the Hill, it is nice to see Mike Judge back directing another feature film...

Linda
To Catch a Thief (1955)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

To Catch a Thief is not remembered as being one of Hitchcock’s best… in fact the “mystery” is so obvious right from the start that the revelation at the...

Linda
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

Washington is everyman Walter Garber, an NYC transit-control operator, who happens to be overseeing the system when hulking villain “Ryder” (John Travolta) and his henchmen commandeer a subway train...

Vickie
Changeling (2008)

Changeling (2008)

Changeling came and went in the theaters, despite the star-wattage attached to it (directed by Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood and starring Oscar-winning Angeline Jolie). Were cinema audience experiencing Angelina...

Linda
A History of Violence (2005)

A History of Violence (2005)

In the opening scene of A History of Violence, the Stall family is awakened by the screams of young Sarah. Tom (Viggo Mortensen) reaches her first, and as he...

Jennifer
Top Secret! (1984)

Top Secret! (1984)

As a rule, I can count the things I hated about the 80s on one hand. In fact, it usually doesn’t even take a whole hand to do so....

Linda
The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

As I write this review, The Dark Knight is the #1 Movie of All Time on the IMDB Top 250 readers’ poll. At 115,000 votes and counting, will there...

Linda
21 (2008)

21 (2008)

Con men,  expert thieves, scientific geniuses, whatever. If they’re able to somehow outsmart a system, I’m in. So the prospect of watching a movie about a bunch of college...

Vickie
Awake (2007)

Awake (2007)

Hayden Christensen plays Clay, a super-rich young man with a domineering and over-protective mother (Lena Olin). Clay has inherited his father’s riches, his business, and one might guess, his...

Linda
No Country for Old Men (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literally—this film is the most novel-like movie I’ve seen in ages, and,...

Linda