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Review of Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) (2005)

March 11th, 2010 No comments
Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition)

After years of not having a Batman film and mostly due to the franchise hitting bottom thanks to Joel Schumacher’s disastrous “Batman forever” and “Batman and Robin”, ChristopherNolan present us his version of the character with an impressive all star cast anda story brilliantly written by David S. Goyer.
The film
There werehigh expectations for this film [...]

Review of Lucky Number Slevin [Blu-ray] (2006)

March 8th, 2010 No comments
Lucky Number Slevin [Blu-ray]

I wasn’t exactly sure about the whole idea and concept behind this movie as I walked into it tonight, since all it took was a fifteen second glimpse of a TV trailer and the ambiguous claim about a case of mistaken identity that uncoiled my interest into full blown curiosity.
I was floored and blown away [...]

Review of The Bucket List (2007)

March 7th, 2010 No comments
The Bucket List

By what they’ve accomplished?According to soft-spoken cancer patient, Carter (Freeman), you measure a man’s life by who measures their lives by yours.
Edward Cole probably was a lot of people’s yardstick.He was wealthy, powerful, and he ran hospitals.
“We run hospitals–not resorts!” E. Cole (Nicholson)
If Cole hadn’t been so mercenary, he’d never have been stuck with [...]

Review of The People Speak (Extended Edition)

March 4th, 2010 No comments
The People Speak (Extended Edition)

If Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” is your type of history, this is a must have for your collection.The primary sources are good and the performances are powerful.Teachers might like this as a companion to teaching the use of primary source documents.Zinn gives the right amount of context to the pieces [...]

Review of Long Way Home [VHS] (1997)

March 2nd, 2010 No comments
Long Way Home [VHS]

A film by Mark Jonathan HarrisWinner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary, “The Long Way Home” is the story of the Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and what happened after the concentration camps were liberated.This is a very important, though little told story.Much of what I have been taught glosses over this [...]

Review of Wanted [Blu-ray] (2008)

February 8th, 2010 No comments
Wanted  [Blu-ray]

“Wanted” is a mile-a-second action picture that never lets up.Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) suddenly finds that his life as an ordinary office worker is over.A beautiful woman, Fox (Angelina Jolie), crashes into his life and introduces him to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins led by the mysterious Sloan (Morgan Freeman).Wesley is informed that [...]