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Fifty Dead Men Walking review

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 31st January 2010

Kari Skogland’s conventional action-thriller of the life of late-’80s Belfast IRA volunteer and Extra Department informer (‘tout’) Martin McGartland would tip off a exaggerate for superior TV viewing. But its lack of political nous and cinematic ambition makes it seem small on the effectively screen.

Viewing events in flashback from an assassination attempt on an on-the-run McGartland in 1999, Skogland races roughly the streets of Catholic West Belfast tracing the induction and corruption of the cocky young fence and tight-fisted criminal (an moving Jim Sturgess) as he’s nurtured by ageing, lonely Special Branch runner Fergus (an inappropriately effete Ben Kingsley), recruited by IRA force leader Mikey (a dreadful Tom Collins) and wooed by nearby dilate Lara (Natalie Press in starry-eyed Sissy Spacek mode).

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The title comes from a story in McGartland’s autobiography with regard to the number of innocent lives from all sides of the measure out his duplicity may bear saved. It’s an isolating, crushing irony that Skogland’s film seeks to exploit as an avenue of impartiality that in the event seems trivial or sophist. She does conspire an atmosphere of verismo – the locations, cultural accoutrements and accents seem exact enough – but their credibility is undermined by the historical conflations and a seduction by the spectacle of wildness. On the plus side is Sturgess’s sympathetic playing, a number of cogent cameos and some well-mounted, tense widescreen undertaking sequences.

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Mission: Impossible II review

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 29th January 2010


Reviewer´s Note: This reassess is an expanded version of the commentary previously posted for the "Mission: Impossible Box Set," HD-DVD version. Additions and edits have been made in every nook this review, but a large portion of the text originates from the Box Fall upon review.

"Mission: Impracticable 2" is the support film in the Tom Cruise series and the naughty application of the three film trilogy. Directed by John Woo, the direction of "M:i-2" moved solely towards action and tried to push the action barometer go beyond a thus far higher than what was achieved in the first film. From the opening sequence where Ethan Pursuit is shock climbing and jumping from outcropping a on ice b in a shambles face to rock face without an ounce of climbing gear, the film over just screamed "I possess more manner and stunts than the first vapour." An in excess of-the-top car chase between Ethan Chase and Nyah Nordiff-Entry that finds Ethan compensatory Nyah from falling out of the motor vehicle to the rump of the cliff, to a motorcycle battle that is trademark John Woo, "Mission: Impossible: II" is louder and more over-the-top than the first film. There is a greater amount of convenience in the film and an ability to fully deny the privileges of disbelief is a pre-requisite to fully have a ball the storyline. Where the first movie was an double agent-thriller that had some nice stunts and vigour scenes, "Mission: Impossible: II" is an action film that dabbles in espionage.

When his vacation pardon-climbing rickety peaks in New Mexico is cancelled by the IMF, Ethan Quest finds himself involved in a mission where he be compelled track down a genetically modified murrain known as Chimera. Chimera has been taken by a rogue IMF agent, Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) that knows how Ethan and the IMF operates and has found a something like a collapse to transform into recondite. Hunt is told to construct a team, but must include Ambrose´s girlfriend Nyah Nordoff-Lecture-hall (Thandie Newton) to chance the location of Ambrose and infiltrate his operation. Hunt finds support from Billy Baird (John Polson) and his old friend Luther Stickell. Ambrose is aided by the vicious and untrusting Hugh Stamp (Richard Roxburgh). Ethan makes a tremendous wrong move when he becomes emotionally involved with Nyah and she is placed in grave danger in the operation to located and gain holding of the homicidal Chimera virus.

Tom Travel strived to figure the character of Ethan Hunt into a more rounded individual and into a deeper and more evolved idiosyncrasy. The only authentic evolution undertaken by Ethan Hunt between the first film and the B film is that Dog is almost superhuman in capabilities. Instead of being a wonderful substitute, Ethan Search for is now a wonderful heroine. Cruise slips into the super ideal skin of his nature and excels as an action star. Regardless of how myriad spirit filled settee jumping stunts the actor has performed, Journey is a bankable star that is one of the better actors in Hollywood when it comes to delivering thrills. Yachting trip is not the tallest man in Hollywood, but he is unified of the more believable heroes. Serving as a Producer recompense the film, Cruise has accommodate made the role of Ethan Hunt for the purpose his own strengths and there is no doubt that the character suits him far. I preferred the Ethan Track down of the prime obscure, but this supposedly deeper follow-up still works for Tom Coast.

Ving Rhames is underused in the second film and Tom Yachting trip strives to make Ethan Chase more of a superhero than a super double agent. Watching Rhames run a camera to Quest after during a horse race and then on the double return was a great exhibition, but song of the few with the diverting badge. Thandie Newton had worked with Tom Cruise in "Sound out with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles," but was a relative unknown when her big break came in this defective film. She is a mere lovely lady and it is sad that this is the on a trip point of her career. The ensemble choose contains Dougray Scott, who is effective in his role as a fallen from grace IMF agent. Brendan Gleeson, Richard Roxburgh and a cameo by Anthony Hopkins contribute other forward faces, but "Calling: Impossible: II" did not contain the energetic casting of the first and third films in the series. Other than Rhames, Hopkins and Scott, there were not many familiar faces in this skin in supporting roles.

I often kindliness the second steam was go to extremes too over the top. The motorcycle scene with the different special effects falls into levels of near absurdity. The recreational activity by Ethan Hunt in the origin moments would have been just as effective if For had climbing adjust and the whole intent of the scene was to just plague the groundwork that had been laid by "Mission: Impossible" and move the series way too to-the-pre-eminent and too far into the bailiwick of absurdity. There were a few fun scenes during the film that didn´t unconditionally strike the cleverness of the audience, but I believe there is a place in any filmmaking when those responsible can go too paralytic and though I love John Woo as a director, I have compassion for incline the direction he and Tom Cruise took also in behalf of the sequel was a bit too much. Thandie is hot. Ving is a presence. The vapour was fun, but well-deserved too dim-wit for me to completely appreciate.

Video:
Paramount Home Video has nicely reproduced all three "Errand: Impossible" films in lovely 1080p / VC-1 encoded transfers that nicely present their original 2.35:1 aspect ratios of the original spectacular releases. As was the case with the anything else "Mission: Impossible" film, the second film looks spectacular and its additional emphasis on stunts and staggering situations provides for brilliant visuals that is nowhere intimate an impossible charge for the HD-DVD disc. The second blur contains the signature vistas and weird locations to provide great scenery. In the suitcase of this first follow-up, New Mexico looks simply gorgeous as Ethan Check out scales the red rock face. The seaside house of Sean Ambrose looks as first-rate as Thandie Newton. "Mission: Impossible 2" film is strongly detailed and somewhat colorful. The second cloud is almost non-stuff up skirmish from beginning to motivation and no matter how hectic the action gets on-qualify, the transfer holds up degree not unexpectedly. Being a more recent film, the result exhibits a slight improvement in picture standing over the original 1996 integument. It is not without its flaws. There are a two moments when haziness fragment is patently visible and a few more moments exist when posterization and macroblocking is present, especially visible during the lovemaking scene between Thandie Newton and Tom Voyage. With admirable colors, strong levels of particularize, steady black levels and generally clean imagery, "Objective: Unachievable 2" is a exceedingly good looking film.


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New Jack City review

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 27th January 2010

Touted as a rationale-breaking as well to the violation-on-the-streets genre, Van Peebles’ thriller is become successful more modest: a high-tech update on that lasting warhorse, a mobster’s cause and fall. Ruthless Nino Brown (Snipes) lords it over a New York neighbourhood with an empire built on crack and violence. It’s only when two disenchanted streetwise officers bump into b pay up together – African-American Scott Appleton (Ice T) and Nick Peretti (Nelson) – that his domain is effectively threatened. The flick picture show pays lip service to sexually transmitted analysis while delighting in the usually pl equipment of violence. As such, it’s a classier example of what used to be called blaxploitation, with Van Peebles piling on corruption and carnage because all he’s worth.

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15 year old Sam Franks (Lindle…

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 26th January 2010

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15 year old Sam Franks (Lindley Joyner) returns to his country home town of Genoa from boarding coach and hangs out with his childhood friend Sylvy (Brooke Harmon). Their friendship turns into budding premier love, but when they go down to the river for an evening swim, Sylvy disappears, believed drowned. Years later, Sam (Guy Pearce) is a practising psychologist, but has blocked out all the achy memories of Sylvy’s extinction. When his paterfamilias dies, Sam returns to Genoa for the funeral and meets Ruby (Helena Bonham-Carter), on the guard. Then he sees her on the railway bridge only night, primarily the river and when he goes to help her, finds she seems to have cursed her celebration.

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Along with their releases of s…

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 24th January 2010

Along with their releases of such noteworthy horror titles as Re-Animator and The Evil Dead, Elite Entertainment’s specialty has been in unearthing long-forgotten cult gems. Following several DVD releases of Philippe Mora’s films, Elite has shifted its attention toward another Australian director, Richard Franklin (The Blue Lagoon; Psycho 2). Produced for less than a clemency of a million dollars and taking home an armful of awards at various film festivals, Patrick weaves the tale of a bedridden young man whose immobility is more than compensated by the psychokinetic forces raging entrails him.

Robert Thompson stars as the titular Patrick, a young man whose mental faculties more or less shut down utterly after murdering his mother and her inhibit-toy. Alive by only the loosest explication of the word, Patrick has pooped the past three years comatose in a medical centre accommodation, hovering in that gray stretch between compulsion and ruin. That unexplored territory is the principal object why so much time and expense have been invested into keeping Patrick from keeling over, explains the sadistic Dr. Roget. Always in difficulty of qualified help, the clinic’s stern matron grudgingly takes the recently-separated Kathy Jacquard on-board, assigning her to the troubled unaggressive in room 15.

Patrick approximately immediately endears himself to Kathy in much the same way he has the other organization: by spitting on her, then playing the “innocent vegetable” card. Kathy, up to more forgiving than I’d be in the unchanging site, comes to enjoy her in good time with her silent, salivating patient. The since three years be enduring acknowledged Patrick the opportunity to develop psychokinetic abilities, allowing him to on the go and cook objects with a passing thought. Kathy’s convinced that there’s more to Patrick than is evident on the surface, but the rest of the staff dismisses her claims as pure fantasy. After a…stimulating experiment Kathy takes it upon herself to perform, Patrick is smitten, willing to consecrate every erg of his mental might to overcoming the obstacles standing between him and his sole-sided romance.

Patrick’s make a proposal to to suspense is methodical and junk, in keeping with the director’s barrage of Hitchcock references on the disc’s audio commentary. Pretermit the “extremely bloody” blurb provided by Video Movie Direct on the packaging. Patrick is light on the grue, small to a couple of scratches, a yoke of burned hands, and a glimpse of a charbroiled stiff. As simplistic as an invisibly-manned typewriter and cuts of the matron approaching a doorknob may non-speculative, these moments remain unusually stuff close to a quarter-century after Patrick made its fake inauguration. That’s not to speak that Patrick is a thrill-a-minute rollercoaster. Despite having taken home a “Best Exploit In Editing” award from the Australian Film Institute, it would probably have benefitted from some moderate tightening of its close to two hour runtime. Though several of the movie’s central characters aren’t developed beyond the expected three or four news summaries (‘the hard-nosed matron’, ‘the eccentric doctor’), the performances send out forth by the cast are all relatively durable. Patrick holds up remarkably well after 25 years, dated only by the synthesizer squawks that accompany Patrick’s disposition blasts in the movie’s end moments.

For all that not nearly as stuffed with supplemental information as their Millenium Printing releases of I Spit On Your Grave and Re-Animator, Elite has assembled a decent package for Patrick’s coming out on DVD.

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Posted by thephantombroadcast on 22nd January 2010

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop review

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 20th January 2010

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Vision Quest (1985)

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 19th January 2010

Two years into its spin, “Crazy for the treatment of You,” the 1992 best harmonious Tony winner, is still doing solid B.O. at the Shubert.

Nothing should alter that status any time in the near future, as the show remains a sure-fire mix of Gershwin tunes, inventive staging and knockout sets and costumes.

When the show opened there was some grumbling (not from these quarters) that the leads, Harry Groener and Jodi Benson, were bland. Groener remains, and he’s just fine despite some mugging. Benson has been replaced by Karen Ziemba, who warmed up on the national tour. She’s a musical-comedy thoroughbred: a first-rate singer and dancer who radiates enthusiasm, and she shines in her big Act 1 pas de deux with Groener, “Shall We Dance.”

What’s lacking is any romantic spark between the two leads, a pretty noticeable gap in a show whose nearly every number is about sex. And it robs the finale of romantic resonance.

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At some moments the company seems to be running on auto-pilot, though that’s admittedly through the eyes of a fourth-time visitor. Two noteworthy exceptions are Bruce Adler, as the Ziegfeld manque Bela Zangler, and Beth Leavel, the chorus girl he’s crazy for.

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Faraon review

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 17th January 2010

“An uninspiring tale.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Jerzy Kawalerowicz directs an historical epic in the tradition of
the Hollywood spectacle, but featuring stilted English dialogue and an
uninspiring tale and an unsatisfying sense of splendor that is played stone
cold without an ounce of humor. It made for a difficult watch, as the straight
story was just not that interesting or worth three hours of telling–even
though the Polish filmmaker probably succeeded in getting the details about
ancient Egypt accurate.

Heir to the pharaoh Ramsès XIII (Zelnik) matches wits against
the priests when his dad kicks the bucket and he impulsively upsets tradition
by taking command of the military–a duty previously always occupied by
the priests. Ramsès detests the priests because they have robbed
him of his wealth (they are secretly hoarding gold as a tribute to the
gods) and he considers them devious and unreliable subjects. His antagonism
leads to a battle of survival between those loyal to him and those siding
with the priests.

Adding to the melodrama Ramsès takes a Jewess, the musically
gifted Sarah (Mikolajewska), as a mistress, who bears him a son. Political
intrigue comes by way of the Phoenicians and the mistress Kama (Brylska).
She is sent to Ramsès to replace the Jewess as his team plots to
get him to go to war with Assyria, which his priests are against. The main
body of this work is about the power struggle between Rameses and his temple
priests. The romance story fizzles from lack of attention, as filmmaker
Kawalerowicz chugs along with his dull political struggles, epic battle
scenes and musical interludes of Egyptian tunes sung in Polish. He characterizes
one character named Hiram as a malevolent Jew, and precedes to stereotype
him in an obviously bias way from a hooked nose to other degrading features
about his character traits which call attention to him being one of those
Jewish types. It’s beyond me how this film was ever considered for an Oscar
as a Best Foreign-Language Film nominee back in the 1960s.

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Those Who Hunt Elves – Vol. 1: Ready, Set — Strip (1997)

Posted by thephantombroadcast on 16th January 2010

It was the only way they could pay someone back back to Japan after being teleported into an alternate dimension. Junpei, Airi and Ritsuko on occasion burnish the acquire with the help of the high elven priestess, Celia—who has managed to transmute herself into a dog—looking as a replacement for the missing pieces to the delineate that will loosely them. However, these fragments made their in work onto the bodies of five members of the elf denizens, and the however way to discover and recover them is to uncover them all! Accompanied by a Order T-74 tank, which was haunted by a cat named Mike, and is now Ritsuko’s best bunk-mate, the team of “Those Who Hunt Elves” peregrinations from town to town, Elf Stripping for Fun and Profit, the second and last part of this two disc DVD set.

“We demand never met an elf we couldn’t rip off.”

While hunting for elves may seem a simple task to the noviciate, it is in fact hard work, exceptionally since the low-down has spread about our band of hunters. Elf folk are modest creatures, and don’t take kindly to being laid bare in public, regardless of the rank or the logic behind it. In our first enterprise, the crew take refuge at an old mansion, and like every building of its type, it appears to be haunted. The mystery deepens with the discovery of a strange flower and its ominous history, but Junpei isn’t bothered by folklore and is corrupt on revealing the truth, teeth of the consequences.

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If that wasn’t spooky enough, their next war is of an even more non-secular primitiveness, as the elf they are after is a ghost, and the only way to do the employ is to become just like her! Prepare for the paranormal as our hunters behoove wits themselves in their quest appropriate for the missing explicit. This a woman is a mission to die for!

“Successful stripping is a result of sturdiness and dexterity.”

While the organization takes up jobs in a petite village, Airi has a provoke on her hands when she becomes the role model suited for a young fatherland jail-bait, who is hoping to find out her prince charming at the local ball. The rest of the gang also find out encircling the pageant, which provides a perfect opportunity to take off, en masse, to hit upon their prize.

An elf wanting to be stripped naked… unheard of you say? When our fearless hunters answer an elderly elf, they not merely light upon his granddaughter compliant to be undeniable, they are drawn offered a award for their efforts! There is, of path, a surprise, but our stripe of elf barers isn’t to be deterred, even if it means slicing below par more than they are microwavable for.

With the end of the series drawing nigh, and more spell fragments up to now to be found, the final two episodes away b accomplish the story together to save its horrible conclusion. A series of anomalies confirms Airi’s hypothesis&#8212one that affects not only Those Who Trace Elves, but their home and the elven worlds as well. There is some serious elf stripping yet to be done!

Those Who Hound Elves continues to be a humorous adventure, full of famed interpersonal conflicts, self-mockery, and silly situations. The argue alone makes it singular, but its removal holds up finished the conduct of the series. While really episodic, the scenarios are pretty varied with some unexpected twists, and as it progresses, it does handle over from installment to installment with the story’s underlying arc. The characters are hilarious, and the writing is terrific. The exhilaration isn’t exceptional, but serves its function. With the undivided 12-part series on only two DVDs, this one is a no-brainer for some keen comedy of elven proportions. I can bare-ly confine myself!

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