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The Password is Swordfish
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Movie reviews, film analysis, and a cinema geek's various thoughts on the artform.
- Added on: Jul 13th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: franklongo
- Listed in: Film
- Tags: Cinema geek movie reviews film analysis popular film contemporary film
Recent Posts
Michael Jackson’s This Is It: The King of Pop’s Touching Curtain Call
When Michael Jackson passed away earlier this year, the media left us with a vivid impression of his final days as a hollowed-out husk of a man, a drug-addled paranoid freak drowning in bankruptcy and depression. As someone who grew up loving his mu...
Zombieland: Rules to Live By in a Zombie Apocalypse
Zombieland, which will almost certainly fill the last slot of my alphabetically organized DVD shelf, delivers laughs with more pinpoint accuracy than nearly any comedy this year. It’s not particularly deep, and it’s not particularly outlandish, ...
New Moon: Who Needs Plot When You Have Abs?
New Moon, the meandering new entry in the Twilight series directed by Chris Weitz, continues the same theme of melodramatic teen passion/symbolism for abstinence. This time, however, we get more than two hours of it, and the basic “plot”...
Twilight as Pro-Chastity Propaganda
As a man in my 20s, there are plenty of folks in my age range who approach me regarding Twilight and ask, “…who in the world likes this crap?” It’s a definitively generational craze, and it’s astonishing to think that s...
2012: The Most Epic Disaster Movie of My Lifetime
You’ve never seen destruction like this. Roland Emmerich apparently decided in reading about the Mayan calendar doomsday conspiracies that his previous armageddon films, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, were far too subtle. This is...
Law Abiding Citizen: Five Movie Laws This Film Fails to Abide By
Law Abiding Citizen, the new film by F. Gary Gray, is a far-fetched fantasy disguised as a gritty serial killer thriller. There are also hints of social commentary that get interesting for half a second before diving into the realm of the ludicrous....
