No Strings Attached – Trailer

January 15, 2011
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I’ve watched this trailer twice (that is, I’ve watched both the green and red band versions), just to make sure I didn’t miss anything that might actually be funny, and I can report with a fair degree of certainty that, no, I didn’t miss anything.  By all appearances, this might be the least funny A-list [...]

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The Tree of Life – Trailer

January 11, 2011
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Apparently Terrence Malick’s latest epic has been in post-production for two years, and in pre-production for about 30.  According to some, the basic idea for the film was conceived on the heels of Malick’s maiden effort, Days of Heaven, which was released in the late seventies.  At that time, the nascent concept was known as [...]

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From MIT to ‘Badlands’ – Trailer

October 3, 2010
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I watched Terence Mailck’s “Badlands” last night, and was hugely impressed.  I ignored it during its initial theatrical release, in 1973.  The story sounded too familiar, and the reviews made it sound precious, if such a thing is possible for a story about two serial killers on the run.  It’s a plot that’s been done [...]

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The Dilemma – Trailer

September 19, 2010
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Personally, I think  Vince Vaughn is effortlessly funny just by being Vince Vaughn.  Granted, the Vaughn brand doesn’t appeal to everyone.  Perhaps it appeals to me because Vaughn was raised in Illinois, as I was.  His various persona quirks make sense to me in an urban Midwestern context.  He seems like a familiar character from [...]

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The Tourist – Trailer

September 15, 2010
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Does anyone besides me think that with each passing year Angelina Jolie looks increasingly like one of those marionette actors from the Brit TV series “Thunderbirds” that aired during the mid-sixties?  For those too young to remember, when I say marionette, I’m not simply making a disparaging comment on British acting technique.  The stars of [...]

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Hereafter – Trailer

September 13, 2010
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Clint Eastwood has called his new film, “Hereafter,” his chick flick, and while the film is something of a departure for him, focusing as it does on spiritual matters, one could also make the case that over the past 15 or 20 years Eastwood has been continually testing the water with different types of material, [...]

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The Town – Trailer

September 8, 2010
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Ben Affleck’s career has been on a slippery slope over the past few years.  He appeared in three films last year, each time in a mere supporting role. In 2008 he appeared in no films at all.  An argument could be made that the fallow period begain in 2003, when Affleck began an over-publicized romance [...]

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Change of Plans – Trailer

September 7, 2010
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This looks like the sort of film that Woody Allen would have made if he made films in France.  Well, actually, he does make films in France.  And in England and Spain, as well.  Allen claims he can no longer afford to make films in the United States, where films are churned out merely to [...]

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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)? – Trailer

September 6, 2010
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Harry Nilsson was the sort of performer your mother would’ve wanted you to be, assuming she didn’t know anything about Nilsson’s personal life, which she probably didn’t. Nilsson wrote pop songs that other singers were born to cover, although Nilsson himself had a voice that other performers would’ve died for, and of course many of [...]

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Freakonomics – Trailer

September 5, 2010
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Who says a best-selling pop-econ book can’t be turned into an entertaining film?  It seems to have a bit of everything: sex, violence, romance and junk food.  And it’s educational.  Can’t wait! From the press kit: FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and [...]

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