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The Wild Thornberrys Movie review

March 8th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

Essence documentary filmmakers Nigel and Marianne Thornberry (voices of Tim Currie and Jodie Carlisle) are in the Serengeti Plain in Africa with daughters Elizabeth (Lacey Chabert) and Debbie (Danielle Harris) and adopted wild kid Donnie (Flea). Elizabeth, who has the power to communicate with animals, discovers that ivory poachers Sloan and Bree Blackburn (Rupert Everett and Marisa Tomei) plan to trap thousands of elephants during a solar eclipse. After being sent to a London boarding mould, Elizabeth escapes and with mischievous chimpanzee Darwin (Tom Kane) by her side, she returns to Africa to save the elephants and bring the Sloans to justice. 

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“A Beautiful Mind,” remarkabl…

March 7th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

“A Beautiful Mind,” remarkably, takes neither road. Adapted from a
biography by Sylvia Nasar, this is the story of John Forbes Nash Jr., the
mathematics genius who formulated game theory, which became a foundation for
contemporary economics.

During the Cold War, Nash developed schizophrenia and became delusional and
paranoid, but recovered and won a 1994 Nobel Prize.

Starring Russell Crowe, who executes an Olympian leap from his previous
role in “Gladiator,” and directed by Ron Howard, this is an unusually
thoughtful look at mental illness and its disabling power. The movie won four
Oscars, including best picture, at this year’s Academy Awards.

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Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman tell the story from Nash’s point of
view, so that often we can’t separate the real from the delusional.

From the beginning, Nash was a man apart, awkward and internal. The movie
opens in 1948 when he arrives at Princeton University, a West Virginia native
with no family money or prep school background.

A total bust at social interaction, Nash flubs a conversation with a
flirtatious woman in a bar (”essentially we’re talking about fluid exchange,”
he says).

At first we don’t notice that Nash is slipping into madness — only that
he’s become obsessive in the competitive academic environment.’

At some point Nash realizes that a split has occurred, that what seems real
to him is not. The mind that served him so well and so brilliantly is now
betraying him. “A Beautiful Mind” does a wonderful job of dramatizing that
split, making schizophrenia visible and suggesting that those who suffer from
it are not unlike the rest of us.



Advisory: This movie contains adult themes and sexual references.

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March 5th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

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Da che parte cominciare per recensire questo videotape? dal regista (Michel Blanc, ma non so che altro dire di lui)? dagli attori ( conosco solo Charlotte Rampling e Carole Bouchet e non erano i migliori)? dalla trama ( una ricca donna altoboghese in vacanza con una sorte di corte dei miracoli che, al ritorno, darà una festa nel giardino della sua bella casa, in un crescendo di equivoci)? dal messaggio che il regista voleva esprimere? anche su questo sono perplessa, forse sono stati rappresentati alcuni degli archetipi di uomini: il marito mascalzone (secondo me poco credibile), il marito geloso (il migliore, il più divertente), il perdente (non riesce nemmeno a suicidarsi! ah, scrive la lettera d'addio, piena di errori con una macchina da scrivere uguale a quella di snoopy e trovata nella spazzatura), l'assistente, amante, del marito della ricca borghese, con problemi di identità sessuale (non a caso uso il termine assistente, perché mi esonera dalla scelta tra il termine maschile e quello femminile), il dipendente extracomunitario del ricco borghese innamorato della figlia, l'adolescente figlio del perdente, alle prese con le sue prime esperienze sessuali e unico dei maschi a uscirne, se non vincente, almeno non perdente. Le donne (ogni uomo si confrontava con una moglie o compagna di letto), che mi sembravano le vere protagoniste, in realtà mi hanno convinto meno.

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You Can Count on Me (2000)

March 3rd, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

-By Daniel Eagan

Scribe-numero uno Kenneth Lonergan makes an impressive feature debut with You Can Count on Me, a modest but winning look at the strained bonds between a brother and sister in an upstate New York village. Uniformly unflagging performances bring elsewhere the nuances in Lonergan's script, and his uninterrupted direction finds a good balance between sentiment and humor. The film's opinion in probity values and lack of cynicism may not appeal to jaded viewers, but attentive marketing could employees draw the audience it deserves.
Shot in New York's Catskill Mountains, the dusting presents lifeblood in the unpretentious town of Scottsville as both easygoing and claustrophobic. Sammy (Laura Linney), who dissolute her parents in a automobile accident while still a laddie, has lived there all her autobiography. A loan apparatchik at the local bank, she is raising her eight-year-old son Rudy (Rory Culkin) by herself, leaving little time for her random incident with indemnity salesman Bob (Jon Tenney). Brian (Matthew Broderick), a new bank executive determined to revive employee expertise, threatens to cut into Sammy's days with Rudy.
Sammy's long-estranged associate Terry (Mark Ruffalo) leaves his girlfriend in Massachusetts and takes a bus to Scottsville, clearly to look in on but really to borrow money. Sammy barely persuades him to stay with her for the purpose a few days. A immortal luxuriant son, Terry layers a self-deprecating polish on top of a seething anger. He can virtually believe himself when he insists, 'I'm not the kind of guy the whole world says I am.' But it doesn't take yearn to achieve why he is always in trouble.

The relationship between Sammy, a devoted churchgoer who nonetheless falls into an affair with the married Brian, and Terry, a strong-minded atheist who still fights for saw truths, is an fascinating one that refuses to follow conventional formulas. Neither's approach to life is 'better' than the other's, just as neither can non-standard like to find happiness, either together or besides. In a quietly intense scene, Sammy's Methodist padre (played by chairman Lonergan) confronts Terry about his philosophy of biography. Echoing the film's strategies, the minister uses logic and low-class wisdom to bicker that everyone's life is prominent-a message that still can't resolve Terry's problems.

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Originally a one-act play, You Can Compute on Me is built enclosing two confrontations between Sammy and Terry, prolonged arguments that are powerful and utterly convincing. Lonergan's criticism is attuned to all the slights and mistakes that help define sibling bonds, just as Linney and Ruffalo capture the wariness between their characters. Ruffalo is excellent in a fastidious role, but Linney is outstanding, decision her character's doubts and contradictions as happily as her strengths. The film's emotional fireworks wouldn't be as effective without its refined droll bits, or the strong supporting cast. Modest, lesser-scale, but in the kill to a great extent moving, You Can Count on Me is a surprising flick that will compensation accommodating viewers.

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Road Trip (2000)

February 28th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

He has also turned up as a cabdriver on HBO’s cinema verite series
“Taxicab Confessions.” His deadpan demeanor suggests a knack for comedy,
and he gives himself a small role in “Road Trip” as a foot fetishist.

Make no mistake, “Road Trip” is little more than a sleazy, lightweight
comedy, produced by Ivan Reitman as a kind of aughts answer to “Animal
House.” Yet there are enough clever touches in Phillips’ direction to
suggest that this narrative feature debut might mark the beginning of an
interesting career.

The cast of relative unknowns is headed by Breckin Meyer, who plays Josh,
a young fellow trying to
stay loyal to his girlfriend, even though he goes to school in Ithaca, N.Y.,
and she attends college in Austin, Texas. One day, he goes to a party and
comes home with an aggressive young woman (Amy Smart) who turns on a video
camera and tapes their lovemaking — a daring move for a girl who is also
presented as sensitive and levelheaded.

The fun starts when the sex tape is accidentally put in the mail to
Josh’s girlfriend. It’s Friday. Josh has three days to intercept the tape in
Austin, but he has no car and no money for airfare. The situation calls for
. . . a road trip, so Josh and three of his buddies pile into a Ford Taurus
and take off.

Phillips, who graduated from New York University in 1994, clearly
remembers what it was like to go to college. One thing he remembers is that
there is little that is innocent about those years, that this is often an
uninhibited period of life. Though some viewers might be put
off by the frankness of the sex talk and by the abruptness with which people
tumble into bed, “Road Trip” at least has the ring of truth.

Phillips also has a farceur’s knack for topping his punch lines. Some
filmmakers play cute with the audience, trying to create interest by
delaying the inevitable. In “Road Trip” things happen quickly, and those
things lead to other, bigger things. “Road Trip” may not be an ambitious
film, but it doesn’t lack for imagination, and the nasty edge of its comedy
makes
it refreshing.

The cast is adequate. Meyer is not the most inspired leading man, but he
gets the job done. Smart is better as the intelligent and randy Beth. The
film’s real find is D.J. Qualls, who is very funny as a jug-eared nerd who
blossoms into a wild man after three days on the road.

– Advisory: This film contains nudity and harsh language.
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E-mail Mick LaSalle at lasalle@sfgate.com.

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Bandolero! (1968)

February 27th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

“An unpretentious and spirited,
but uneven Western.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

An unpretentious and spirited, but uneven Western. It’s directed
in a workmanlike manner by Andrew V. McLagen and scripted with comedy in
mind by James Lee Barrett from a story by Stanley Hough.

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It’s set in Val Verde, Texas, in 1867. The Bishop gang arrives in
the sleepy border town to rob a bank. Gang leader


Dee Bishop (Dean Martin) snaps at the teller: “Never mind the hard
stuff. We’ll just take the paper.” Soon things go wrong as a bank patron
named Mr. Stoner, the richest man in town, gets killed by one of the robbers
and a bank teller gets wounded. Sheriff July Johnson (George Kennedy) and
his deputy (Andrew Prine) arrest the five-man gang.

Mace Bishop (James Stewart) arrives in a town nearby to Val Verde
looking for work and stops off to bed in the local flophouse. While taking
an outdoor bath, Mace overhears loudmouth hangman, Ossie Grimes (Guy Raymond),
bragging about coming to Texas from Oklahoma on the invite of the sheriff
to hang the Bishop gang. Mace trails the hangman out of town and joins
him for coffee-on-the-trail while receiving an in-depth lecture on the
secrets of the trade. Mace departs in the hangman’s top hat, frock coat
and tools of the trade. Arriving in Val Verde, he compliments the sheriff
on the excellent quality of his five-man gallows. It turns out that the
condemned gang is led by Mace’s wayward brother, Dee, who sided with Quantrell’s
raiders during the Civil War while he rode with Sherman’s Union Army. Mace
calmly stages a last-minute escape of the gang and when the sheriff takes
a posse after the gang heading for Mexico, Mace calmly robs the bank of
$10,000 in the deserted town. 

In the chase, the wealthy widow Maria Stoner (Raquel Welch) is kidnapped
by the gang. The sheriff has a longtime crush on the sexy Mexican woman,
and vows to ride until he rescues her and captures the gang. The chase
takes place over mountainous bandolero territory in the Mexican desert.
The Mexican bandits aim to kill all gringos, and start picking off the
posse one by one. In the meantime, Mace joins his brother’s gang hiding
out in a ghost town and tries to talk Dee into quitting the gang and going
partners with him in a Montana ranch.

While Raquel is kidnapped by Dee, the two fall in love. Raquel has
previously told businessman Carter her shocking bio “I was a whore at 13
and my family of 12 never went hungry.” Her rich gringo hubby bought her
from her father for some cattle and pistols. But she later lets on, she
never complained because hubby treated me like a lady.

“Bandolero!” is overlong, routine and dull in spots despite a fine
cast. By the time the final shootout takes place we are asked to believe
that it’s possible for the brothers to go straight, that Raquel Welch can
act and this familiar story is fresh. 

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

February 25th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

The necromantic of Walt Disney lingers magnificently on in Bed knobs and Broomsticks.

The setting is a quaint olde-worlde English seaside village during the earlier days of World War II. Three Cockney kids (Roy Snart, Ian Weighill and Cindy O’Callaghan) are evacuated there and are as appalled by the dullness of it all as they are with the eccentricities and rules of Angela Lansbury with whom they are billetted. Then they discover she is studying witchcraft by correspondence course with the idea of using it against the Germans should they invade. Life takes on a rosier hue. They learn to perform all sorts of magic, fly to London on a bedstead and spend a joyous time in the never-never land [songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman].

It is when the film [based on the book by Mary Norton] dives deeply into the realms of fantasy that it is most enjoyable. The trip with the principals on the bedstead through the underwater kingdom of the fishes and animated football match between jungle animals with a superimposed David Tomlinson refereeing are not only sheer delights but technical masterpieces.

[In 1997 a 139-min. de facto director's cut was released on homevideo.]

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1971: Best Special Visual Effects.

Nominations: Best Costume Design, Art Direction, Original Song Score, Song (’The Age of Not Believing’)

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Desperate Living review

February 24th, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

Revelling in the travesty of carnal dissipation, Anxious for Living transforms the standard elements of fairytale into a mess of dominant sexual mores. The wicked queen is an omnivorous barracuda-mother with a predilection with a view leather boys, who devours her empire’s sub-lumpen populace with an appetite that is tempered only by perverse sadism. Her princess daughter, trapped in the heterosexual pursuit of a Out of Story, is finally saved by a obstinate mutiny of lesbian transsexual heroines who take beside the downfall of the warm dictatorship. Single-mindedly tracing the limits where hedonism becomes revulsion, this is a celebration of the flesh, a revindication of marginalised sexualities, of desire as artifice, which is a lot less misogynist than the harmonious aestheticism of ‘natural’ sexuality in softcore porn.

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Any film which features a dead…

February 23rd, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

Any film which features a dead, bald and very peckish ruffian lurching towards the camera screaming ‘More Brains!‘ gets my vote. Directed by O’Bannon courtesy of George Romero, this is an zingy cross-referencing of genre: not just a horror movie, but a comic apocalyptic zombie apprehension silver screen. O’Bannon has his cube, eats it, and then throws it up in the grasp the nettle of the audience. Warehousemen unwittingly loosing a zombie interred by the CIA (of course) along with a nifty gas which ensures that state graveyards are bursting at the seams with percipience-peckish corpses. Most of the film froths and bubbles merrily: there is a acutely artistic sequence where a punkette dances in a state of nature on a tombstone already being transformed into a zombie, and another moving morsel where para-meds get their heads munched. Finally, in any event, O’Bannon runs all in all on the cranky taste gags. Matters conclude, anti-climactically, with the death of civilised lifetime as we know it.

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Peggle Nights: PSN Trailer

February 21st, 2010 by anyaruosssblog in Uncategorized · No Comments

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This is a new and fun trailer for the game Peggle Nights

The sun has set at the Peggle Institute, but the bouncy delight has just begun! Join the Peggle Masters on a dreamtime adventure of alter egos and peg-tastic action.

Watch how much fun can you playing this great game!

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