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Eclectic Reviews | July 20th 2008
A woman who had a date, gets home, says bye to the babysitter and goes to sleep. She wakes up buried alive. That is just the start, as she is tested by the sick bastard who is looking for the perfect wife I guess. There are some good shots, it gets a read more
Mandela
The Movie Mom | July 14th 2008 by Nell Minow
Celebrate the 90th birthday this week of one of history's greatest leaders, Nelson Mandela, with one of the fine films about his extraordinary perseverance, vision, courage, and leadership. The story of the massive social change he achieved without v read more
1776
The Movie Mom | June 30th 2008 by Nell Minow
This rousing musical about the Declaration of Independence makes the Founding Fathers vivid, human, and interesting characters, and is so involving that you almost forget that you already know how it all turned out. William Daniels is the "obnoxious read more
The Counterfeiters Comes to DVD on August 5, 2008
Literary Illusions Entertainment & News Blog | June 26th 2008 by Ashtyn
2007 Academy Award®-Winner Best Foreign Language Film Based on a True Story THE COUNTERFEITERS Debuts on DVD and Blu-ray™ High-Def on August 5, 2008 Culver City, CA (June 23, 2008) –The 2007 Academy Award®-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, read more
Le Scaphandre et le papillon, 2007
FauxNixon | June 18th 2008 by Nathan Thoms
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is the phenomenal adaptation of French journalist and media mogul Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoirs after a stroke at the age of 42 leaves him completely paralyzed except for his lef read more
The Valkyries - Paulo Coelho
Espresso Break | June 16th 2008 by tina
Category: Books Genre: Spirituality Author: Paolo Coelho Overview and Review of The Valkyries authored by Paolo Coelho.This is an autobiographical book, but told using the third person.Why do we destroy the things we love? It was the question Paol read more
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Movie Mom | June 9th 2008 by Nell Minow
Take away the sumptuous settings and Hollywood glamour and what you have here is like Henry VIII for Dummies enacted by the cast of the OC. Natalie Portman plays Anne Boleyn, who became the second of Henry VIII's six wives... read more
The Strangers: Don't Believe the Hype
The Vault of Horror | May 24th 2008 by Brian Solomon
As horror movie fans, we've all grown very accustomed over the years to the whole, "based on a true story" gimmick. You've usually either got the films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that are loosely inspired by real life, or movies like The Amityv read more
Hamburger Hill, 1987
FauxNixon | May 3rd 2008 by Nathan Thoms
Hamburger Hill is the 1987 movie directed by John Irvin and written by James Carabatsos about the famous and brutal 10-day battle during the Vietnam War for a hill between the 101st Airborne Company of the US Army and the army of North Vietnam in whi read more
Conspiracy, 2001
FauxNixon | April 14th 2008 by Nathan Thoms
Conspiracy is so accurate and realistic, forcing the viewer to see by proxy a real meeting held by Nazi Germany’s administrators to plan The Holocaust that it actually leaves the viewer quite literally on the verge of nausea.?? It is a horribly read more
Casino, 1995
FauxNixon | April 10th 2008 by Nathan Thoms
Martin Scorsese’s fantastic follow-up to 1990’s Goodfellas, again teaming up with Nicholas Pileggi, who is also again both the author of the book and the writer of the screenplay. Many of the faces of Goodfellas return here to Casino read more
Top 10 Crime Movies Based on True Stories
FauxNixon | April 6th 2008 by Nathan Thoms
The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories.?? They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, read more
The Last Emperor (1987)
Celluloid Heroes | March 9th 2008 by Paul McElligott
All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you’re the worst of all! Perhaps the saddest line in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-sweeping epic, comes early when the 9-year-old Emperor Pu Yi (Tijger Tsou) naively t read more
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | March 5th 2008 by Paul McElligott
Folks sometimes take me for a nincompoop on account of the shabby first impression I make. If one had no other reference with regards to the American West, they might gather from this movie that Jesse James’ notoriety came from his ability to talk read more
Disclosure - Michael Crichton
Espresso Break | February 28th 2008 by tina
Category: BooksGenre: CorporateAuthor: Michael CrichtonOverview and Review of Disclosure by Michael Crichton.*Already a MovieA book that involves Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964.Title VII is a shattering case that would ruin a person's career and read more
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | February 19th 2008 by Paul McElligott
What would you have me do? Hang half the people in England, or just imprison them? Some movies are made to entertain us, others to inform, titillate or provoke. This one seems to have been made expressly for the purpose of winning the Oscars for Bes read more
Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Espresso Break | February 9th 2008 by tina
Category: BookGenre: Non-Fiction Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra Overview and Review of Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra a true story.*It has a movie already.The true West Side Story.Sleeper Out of town hit man who spends the night after a local contract read more
Predator - Jack Olsen
Espresso Break | January 30th 2008 by tina
Category: Books Genre: Non-Fiction, Based on a True Story BAuthor: Jack OlsenOverview and Review of Predator a book written by Jack Olsen.This is a true story about a man named "Steve Titus" (a pseudonym to protect the identity) who was falsely acc read more
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Celluloid Heroes | December 1st 2007 by Paul McElligott
I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant fill him with a terrible resolve. Think of this movie like a long, slightly boring lecture in history class, only with explosions. This attempt to do for the attack on Pearl Harbor what The Longest read more
Sorry guys, I’m with the studio on this one
GNN - Gossip n News | November 27th 2007 by Moni Dobbs
From IMDb: Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe’s hit new movie American Gangster is at the center of a new legal fight, after upsetting a retired Drug Enforcement agent in New York. The narcotics detectives are far from happy with the way they read more
American Gangster (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | November 18th 2007 by Paul McElligott
Judges, lawyers, cops, politicians. They stop bringing dope into this country, about a hundred thousand people are gonna be out of a job. With the creative pedigree behind this film, if it had merely been good, that would have been a tremendous disa read more
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | November 13th 2007 by Paul McElligott
I am not terrorized. You can’t be terrorized. Despite its Hallmark Hall of Fame title, A Mighty Heart is a spare, unblinking look at the last days of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl through eyes of his wife, Mariane, and those who desper read more
Gracie (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | November 11th 2007 by Paul McElligott
You can do anything. There I was, watching a heartfelt drama about a family suffering the tragic loss of one son, and the TV suddenly switched over to a lame afterschool special. Oh, wait, it was actually same movie. Based in part on the real life s read more
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Celluloid Heroes | October 23rd 2007 by Paul McElligott
You will soon be standing where we are now. Only the young and idealistic would believe that they could reverse the course of a murderous regime with a few thousand mimeographed leaflets, but that is what the members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi read more
review: in the realm of the senses (1976)
another movie blog | August 13th 2007 by laurie
Ai no corrida (aka in the realm of the senses 1976), in its simplest terms, is Japanese pornography with a pretty name and an interesting story. In 1936 a man started an affair with one of his servants that eventually lead to his death. Basically t read more
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