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Midnight Meat Train - Long Trailer
Movie Trailer 2008 : The Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008 + O… | July 22nd 2008 by ttiger
Midnight Meat Train Release Date: August 1, 2008 Next stop…death. When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work – a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants - earns the struggling photogra read more
The Mist Movie Review
Eclectic Reviews | June 9th 2008
I had seen this when it came out in theaters, but John hadn't. I liked the movie. I like the darkness, the emotions, and the lack of music which made it seem darker somehow. I also enjoyed it because in the theater there seemed to be a part cut out, read more
Hotel for Dogs 2009 Trailer HD
Movie Trailer 2008 : The Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008 + O… | June 5th 2008 by ttiger
Hotel for Dogs Release Date: January 16, 2009 Based on Lois Duncan’s novel, the story revolves around two orphaned teenagers who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. read more
Review of “The Namesake” (2006) PG-13 122min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | May 8th 2008 by Maxim
Another wonderful movie based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri directed and produced by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding (2001), Vanity Fair (2004)) starring Irfan Khan and Kal Penn. The plot: In the late 60s-early 70s Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan) was travelin read more
Review of “Smart People” (2008) 95min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | April 13th 2008 by Maxim
“Smart People” is a comedy and drama based on novel by Mark Poirier and directed by Noam Murro, an award winning director [of commercials]. Correct me if I’m wrong, but “Smart People” appears to be the first feature film read more
Review of “The Bicycle Thief” (1948) UR 89min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | March 31st 2008 by Maxim
The plot: Post-World War II Italy is going through devastating period of depression. A job is hard to come by. Antonio Ricci manages to get a job after two years of unemployment: to drive around Rome and put up posters of Rita Heyworth, and it requir read more
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) PG-13 109min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 24th 2008 by Maxim
The plot: Andrea Sachs’s (Anne Hathaway) dream was to become a journalist. A naive young woman, she comes to New York and scores a temporary job for the Runway [fashion] magazine working as an assistant secretary to ruthless, if not sadistic, read more
Martian Child (2007) PG 108min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 13th 2008 by Maxim
This is a feel-good drama starring Hollywood sweethearts John Cusack and Amanda Pete based on a novel “Martian Child” by David Gerrold. The plot: a widowed science fiction writer, who writes about Mars, decides to adopt a child. He picks read more
There Will Be Blood (2007) R 158min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 11th 2008 by Maxim
“There Will Be Blood” based on the novel “Oil!” by Upton Sinclair and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Cigarettes & Coffee, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia, and of course several episodes of Saturday Night Live) who also wro read more
Vanity Fair (2004) PG-13 141min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 8th 2008 by Maxim
I didn’t read William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic novel yet, but looking forward to it (should have read it when I was a kid - everyone I know did). The movie is directed by Mira Nair and script written by Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet. read more
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) PG-13 145min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | January 16th 2008 by Maxim
It’s interesting that Steven Spielberg was the executive producer of this movie. I didn’t read the book, but I interviewed some people who did and they said that the movie is mostly faithful to the 1997 best-selling novel, with just a few read more
Atonement (2007) R 122min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | January 6th 2008 by Maxim
Christopher Hampton based his screenplay on the novel by Ian McEwan, and Joe Wright directed. Joe Wright is a very talented director. In 2007 Joe became youngest director presenting at Venice Film Festival. At 34 years old he was already famous as read more
The Prestige (2006) PG-13 130min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | January 4th 2008 by Maxim
The director of “Batman Begins” Christopher Nolan directed this film written by him and Jonathan Nolan based on the novel by Christopher Priest. Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie star. The pl read more
Movie review: I Am Legend (2007) PG-13 101min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 29th 2007 by Maxim
This movie may become the legend of the box office success: it’s been in theaters for two weeks now and it’s still selling out. The plot: Brilliant scientist Robert Neville (Will Smith) may be the only survivor of the human-engineered vi read more
Children Of Men (2006) R 109min HD DVD
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 28th 2007 by Maxim
The plot: in the alternate near future women stopped getting pregnant and giving birth - on the entire planet. Societies are collapsing, and only Britain has maintained some sort of order by introducing strict military control everywhere. Illegal imm read more
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) R 97min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 24th 2007 by Maxim
Pretty good! The plot: Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a congressman from Texas. He’s been known for being a womanizer and alcoholic. In 1979 the policy of US regarding Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was to stay out of the conflict. While the g read more
Shrek The Third (2007) PG 92min - DVD
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 12th 2007 by Maxim
The plot: when the frog-king ‘croaks’, Shrek (Mike Myers) is looked at as the next successor to the throne of the Far, Far Away. Shrek, however, believes he is not the right candidate for wearing the crown, and dreams of returning to his read more
The Golden Compass (2007) PG-13 113min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 10th 2007 by Maxim
A major disappointment. The script by Chris Weitz (”About a Boy“) is based on first story of Philip Pullman’s 1995 bestselling (in UK) trilogy novel, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass. The plot: The story is set in an al read more
A Good Year (2006) PG-13 114min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | December 7th 2007 by Maxim
Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Numb3rs, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Company, Tristan and Isolde, Orpheus, Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men, Hostage, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Gladiator and ma read more
No Country for Old Men (2007) R 122min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | November 25th 2007 by Maxim
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, this is the best chase movie ever! The plot: a hunter named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) walks on the aftermath of a drug deal gone bad in the middle of th desert somewhere in Texas and discovers suitcase read more
Gone Baby Gone (2007) R 114min
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | October 22nd 2007 by Maxim
Pretty good movie, with a lof of similarities to Mystic River - a novel also written by Denis Lehane. I recommend to see it. It could be the "Crash" of 2007. read more
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