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Duplicity Duplicity :: movie review
Well I finally got around to viewing Duplicity, Starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as a team of spies that after a one night stand decide to pull off a big time scam on a couple of warring corporate giants, and as the story flashes back and forth between different times lines we get to see how this story develops. Well that in a nutshell is the best short synopsis I could come up with without giving too much of this story away. The chemistry between Roberts and Owen is there just a little off, maybe I read it wrong, but there are a few times that I was wondering if they were acting or just picking up a pay-check. With that said there seems to be allot of movies these days that are filmed in Europe and this film is no exception. There are some stunning views of Rome and New York as well of some stuff that was film in the Bahamas which add an air of realism to the fact that the characters in this film are both world traveling secret agents.
The International : movie review : Clive Owens The International : movie review : Clive Owens is an Interpol agent (Louis Salinger) that is a working on case in Europe to uncover the reason a large bank is buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of missile parts. With the help of Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) he finds that all of his leads keep dying and the story progresses into an intense thriller with plot twists and turns.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Vicky and Cristina are on summer holiday in Barcelona Spain; both women are in search of something different. One to see the sites of Spain to complete her master’s degree, the other a fantasy of wild love that she feels she can find in the two months they are going to be in Europe. First let me say that I really don’t like Woody Allen films, the narcotic, self absorbed charter he plays in every film irritates me, but as a director he is coming into his own and improving with every frame of film.
The Soloist :: movie review The Soloist :: movie review
The Soloist is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) , a musician that los Angeles times reporter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) encounters in downtown playing a violin with 2 strings. They start to talk and Nathaniel starts mentioning names of people in an offhand way, Lopez asks who they are, he replies that they were classmates at Juilliard; Lopez realizes that he means The Juilliard School of music in New York City. Interested in the possibly of a story, he calls Juilliard and the school calls back and he finds out that Nathaniel was really there and dropped out.
Powder Blue movie review 2009 Powder Blue movie review 2009
Powder Blue starts with Jack Doheny (Ray Liotta) standing on the beach at dawn, he swims into the gray, dark ocean and you get the sense this going to be an intense film. This dialog driven story was talked about in the press for the fact that Jessica Biel plays a stripper, but that is a sideshow to the deep and moving plot. This ensemble cast plays a set of seemingly random people that have their lives collide on Christmas in Los Angeles. Eddie Redmayne portrays a mortician who falls in love with her with Rose-Johnny (Jessica Biel) after finding her lost dog that he runs over with his hearse.
THE GUITAR : actionmoviereviews As a guitar player myself, I developed an instant liking for the premise for the film. Hell you get an empty large New York loft, an actress with super model looks, and a couple of Marshall Stacks and a statocaster electric guitar, You will defiantly get some beautiful imagery. This is the story of a woman told she is going to die soon and goes on a spending spree, complete with dream lodging and furnishings as she changes everything in her life.

Seven Pounds : movie review Rosario Dawson, Will Smith

Seven Pounds : movie review . Well this movie caught me off guard, I Was not expecting it to be such a good film. Remember this film was released in 2008 the same year as “Hancock” which I didn’t like at all. So I missed this movie at the theaters and watched it on DVD last night. Will Smith was very believable in this role and was forced to show a broad range of emotions and all were done with intense poise. He wasn’t really known (In my opinion) as a character actor, up till a few years ago, well I think of “4th of July” that was a thriller slash sci-fi movie and ‘Men in black” and so on … In Seven Pounds he deliverers an Oscar worthy performance
I know I say that about every movie and actor I review, but I mean it, it was stunning.

 

You got to see this character think this thing through, and start to feel his personal pain and sense of relief as the process goes ahead. The cinematography was well done and there is some tricky editing to move the story along, but for the most part, it has a good pace. It’s a shame that scripts like this don’t fall off trees, because this movie I think was really Will Smith’s breakout performance

. The one thing I did not like was the beginning of this film, it gives away too much, and I wanted to try to figure out the plot all on my own. Rosario Dawson was great too and I cared about the relationship between the two characters and their strange interactions and the whole “what if " thing. I also thought that Woody Harrelson was great in the supporting role playing a blind, piano playing, vegan, meat salesman. I’m going to go against everything that I had as a preconceived notion about this movie, and give this film a high rating…



The DVD was really well done as far as the inserts and overall artwork, but the DVD cover art sucked, oh well, you push play and it disappears into the machine. Its magic…right?

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