movies: Iron Man $$$ - 05/01/08 08:43 PM
Robert Downey, jr is Tony Stark, a world-renowned weapons maker who's playboy prowess reeled in all twelve of one year's Playmates. His fancy world of fast cars and expensive booze is blown to bits when a convoy toting him through Afghanistan is hijacked by a group of rogue paramilitary types. As … (3 comments)
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movies: Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 04/28/08 12:04 PM
I could sense a heavy anticipation throughout the theater. The person next to me grabbed his coat and leaned towards the exit. I could hear the chatterboxes behind me gathering their belongings. There would be a race to get out of the theater and be the first to use some kind … (1 comments)
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movies: Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay - 04/28/08 11:59 AM
Kal Penn and John Cho are back. I love these guys. When I worked at KOSI 101 here in Denver I'd get all kinds of interview opportunities, but many of them weren't suitable to air between Michael Bolton and Amy Grant, so while Cher crooned her love pains, I recorded interviews … (2 comments)
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movies: Flawless $$$ - 04/09/08 11:33 AM
Demi Moore looks good. Her backless dress reveals a body made of rebar and tempered steel. Her graceful aging might only be trumped by her Flawless costar, Michael Caine. He just turned 75 and has appeared in every movie ever made.
I have a feeling this won't be a big hit. … (2 comments)
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movies: Shine a Light $$$$ - 04/09/08 11:30 AM
After finally winning an Academy Award, Martin Scorsese can direct something other than sprawling period movies and gangster films. Here he takes some cameras to a rock concert and, without Leo DiCaprio, could very well be up for more awards.
Shine a Light is for true Stones fans. It's little more … (3 comments)
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movies: Rated R, for Really Not a Good Idea to Watch with Mother-in-Law - 03/28/08 01:34 PM
I’m not to the point where I’m going to join a council on morality, but something’s got to happen about all the nudity these days. My concern starts with my visiting mother-in-law. She’s taking a break from her duties as the treasurer of her church and star singer of a Baltimore … (6 comments)
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movies: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - 03/07/08 11:53 AM
This is the kind of movie that my wife and mother would love to watch together. They'd hunker down with some tea and cookies and, even if it were summer, wrap themselves in blankets. After a few beers my snide comments about fluffy girl movies would get me expelled from the … (3 comments)
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movies: Be Kind Rewind - 02/29/08 10:47 PM
This is another film from director of whimsy Michel Gondry. He also did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well as the more recent Science of Sleep. The latter is online in it's entirety. Have fun accessing that wacky movie here.
For the more user-friendly Be Kind Rewind, Gondry … (4 comments)
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movies: Semi-Pro - 02/29/08 04:44 PM
I like Will Ferrell. He makes me laugh at things that I normally wouldn't. But I think even Will Ferrell is getting tired of his schtick. This really is his Anchorman character Ron Burgundy in too-tight b-ball shorts. I did laugh a little. The concept is great. Ferrell is a one-hit … (2 comments)
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movies: Jumper $$ - 02/15/08 12:02 PM
If I had the power to teleport places I'd be really fat. Because the only thing stopping me from getting that hamburger, the one advertised on TV in a beauty not seen in real life, is the fact that I'm too lazy to get in the car and drive to McDonalds. … (9 comments)
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movies: In Bruges $$$$$ - 01/30/08 09:13 AM
This movie had me with Colin Farrell's line, "If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't." From there Farrell gets more entertaining and this film just gets better. Although, Bruges, Belgium did impress me, so it could be that … (3 comments)
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movies: John Rambo $$$$ - 01/24/08 02:31 PM
Sylvester Stallone co-writes, directs, stars and inspires sextagenerians everywhere in a movie so violent and bloody, that it starts off disturbing, but ends up ridiculous. By ridiculous I mean that I'm having a hard time admitting that I got off on the anatomical yard sale left behind by Stallone and his … (7 comments)
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movies: No Country For Old Men $$$ - 01/16/08 06:28 PM
(look for a whole bunch of reviews...catching up with AR)
The Coen Brothers have perfected something I thought not possible. They can have you gripping your armrest for two hours, yet leave you with very little impression that anything ever happened. You may not even remember you've been to a movie. What … (4 comments)
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movies: There Will Be Blood - 01/07/08 09:58 AM
Turns out there was a time when profiting from the dark bile pumped from the hellish depths of the earth didn't seem so Christian. Loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, the movie still carries the very Sinclairian tone that Christians aren't so Christian, and whatever little soul is left … (5 comments)
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movies: I Am Legend $$$$ - 12/18/07 07:50 AM
It's weird recommending a stressful situation. Like this movie, it's stressful. I'd never say, "Hey, if you want a good time then load the kids in the van and go for a rush hour fast food run!" But I would recommend this movie.
But I gotta say that New York City … (1 comments)
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movies: Alvin and the Chipmunks $$ - 12/18/07 07:03 AM
The good news: Jason Lee and David Cross are superbly cast as the much-maligned Dave "Aaaaalvin!" Seville and the Greedy Jett Record Executive, Uncle Ian, respectively. The bad: We are obsessed with butts. I cover that in the video below.
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movies: Juno $$$$ - 12/18/07 06:56 AM
Little Miss Sunshine got herself all growed up...and knocked up. That's not to say the young actress Abigail Breslin of Sunshine is in this movie, or pregnant. I'm just saying that Juno is this year's little movie that could. And it does. From Rainn Wilson's opening cameo as a wisecracking convenience … (0 comments)
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movies: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) $$$$$ - 12/18/07 06:51 AM
Be the butterfly. Be it now!
I felt like an ass. Shortly before seeing this movie--quite possibly the best film of the year--I complained to Sarah that I did not have enough time to write a book. I'm too busy, I said, and then followed that excuse with, "And I think … (1 comments)
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movies: Atonement - 12/08/07 06:09 PM
Here's a quick way to make most everything that's come out so far this year look like complete rubbish. Atonement is brilliant. I could write and write about this film but then it's a pain to edit it down to the tiny space the newspaper allows me. It's so hard because … (0 comments)
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movies: The Golden Compass - 12/08/07 06:08 PM
The Golden Compass is the beginning of another movie trilogy. Trilogies are hot right now. Simply write three consecutive books, maybe instructional pamphlets on how to operate your oven, and Hollywood will buy the rights. Of course Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" literary trio aren't just any three books. They are … (0 comments)
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movies: What's Your Favorite Holiday Movie? - 11/28/07 09:20 AM
The Denver Daily News asked if I could write a quick column on the best holiday movies. What's missing? Any good unheralded gems?
The Five Best Holiday Movies EverIt's a Wonderful LifeSure it's a holiday cliché, but if you don't watch this, your wife will hound you until you do. If … (5 comments)
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movies: Beowulf $$$, but because you must see it in 3-D, $$$$ - 11/16/07 04:39 PM
I review movies for a living. My radio and newspaper report is sponsored by the new multimedia portal for real estate professionals, MyREALTY.com. I post the recorded bi-weekly Showbiz Scene here, and I'll post some of the latest movie reviews for you on this blog.
$$$$$ = Put down everything and … (0 comments)
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