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The Last Sign 6 reviews Andie MacDowell, Samuel Le Bihan
First Look International, 2005
Not what you'd expect.
A woman is widowed and trying to move on with her life but sees her husband and feels his pressence everywhere. She begins to get messages from him beyond the grave. It sounds scary, but it's more suspensful than actually scary. This movie was worth seeing, despite the sometimes poor acting, and ...
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Battle of The Brave 18 reviews Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye
Sony Pictures, 2006
Wrong title, wrong expectations
The original version of this movie was titled "Nouvelle France". I do wonder sometimes who can came up with such a misleading title. The story, a battle of the spirit really, lacks cohesion and creates artificial drama. It seems the makers were not clear what to focus on - the love story or the ...
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Return to Waterloo/Come Dancing 9 reviews Sally Anne, Dominique Barnes
Image Entertainment, 1999
Well done Kinks tunes
+ Davies & company 80s music videos + Give this a good remastering, already! + Fun two-fer for fans
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Four Rooms 134 reviews Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals
Miramax, 1999
Classic Comedy
+ Four Rooms - Five Stars + No masterpiece, but very entertaining. + Great find
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The Beautiful Country 17 reviews Damien Nguyen, Ling Bai
Sony Pictures, 2005
Gorgeously Filmed and Strangely Unpredictable
+ What is in the heart + A journey of hardship from Vietnam to search for his American father + Thoughtful and reflective film + an original approach
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Captives 24 reviews Julia Ormond, Tim Roth
Miramax, 2002
Tim Roth is Gifted
+ Still loving this movie... + Tim, el actor más magnético. + Forbidden Love. + Unusually different and exciting
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Little Odessa 13 reviews Tim Roth, Edward Furlong
Lions Gate, 2002
Low key, but packed with emotion
+ A Specific, Solid Gangster Picture + A Gangster Movie for An Intelligent Audience + Otro papel ideal para mi actor favorito + Almost too realistic, cruel and depressing. Serious stuff.
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The Perfect Husband 1 review Tim Roth, Ana Belén
Bfs Entertainment, 2000
A satisfying period tale of intrigue
Having just viewed this film, I must say it makes for a pleasent evening's viewing. Revolving around two freinds Milian (Tim Roth), a gifted pianist and notorious womanizer, and Franz (Peter Firth), the manager of a luxery spa, who meet again after seven years. Set in 1900, the story opens with ...
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Bodies, Rest & Motion 10 reviews Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda
Image Entertainment, 2003
Under-rated and under-recognized
+ A little too real, perhaps.
Despite the little attention this movie has gotten, and the varied, sporadic comments and reviews, "Bodies, Rest and Motion" is the most wonderful thing I have seen in years. The four actors (Fonda, Stoltz, Cates, and Roth) could not do better to bring to us a very subtle, touching, and elegant ...
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No Way Home [Region 2] 5 reviews
Tim Roth,, James Russo, Deborah Unger = PERFECTION
+ Simply put, it is a story of triumph over adversity + Excellent. I loved it. Direct and to the point. + unbelievable + VERY WELL DONE AND REALISTIC
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Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) 746 reviews Rosanna Arquette, Steve Buscemi
Miramax Entertainment, 2002
A modern classic!
+ American Classic + A Tarentino classic
Four modern crime noir tales which one tells of two professional hitmen Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vince (John Travolta) work for gangster Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) and retreive a stolen suitcase. Since Wallace is out of town for a few days, Vince takes out Marcellus's wife Mia (Uma ...
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Virgin Territory 41 reviews Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton
Starz / Anchor Bay, 2008
A silly tale with a good soundtrack.
+ A Decent Adaptation of the Decameron
Decidedly euro film.
One compared it to American Pie, which could be said to be true.
Only without all the product placement and 'Americanism' of the American Pie series.
American Pie succeeded based on certain criteria, I'm sure this film will do well as a rental item as well.
Enjoy.
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Youth Without Youth 15 reviews Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara
Sony Pictures, 2008
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, OPUS 23
+ A good film at last !!!
****1/2 2007. Based on Mircea Eliade's Youth Without Youth, this film was written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Struck by a lightning, a 70 years old Romanian teacher survives and is rewarded by the ability to live a second life that will allow him to assimilate the whole human ...
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Don't Come Knocking 22 reviews Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange
Sony Pictures, 2006
Where is Howard?
+ Caught between Earth and Sky + Don't Come Knocking Captures Butte
Wim Wenders returns with his used style; the search of the affective and emotional roots. As he showed us in Paris Texas, the first shot invites us to think in huge but desolate landscapes.
Howard Spence (Sam Sheppard) is an actor who has lost his well known admiration, he is now at his fifties ...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 110 reviews Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon
Starz / Anchor Bay, 2001
A true masterpiece, but...
+ intriguing.. but brace yourself.. or laugh a little. + Brilliant + Strange, Artistic and Disturbing
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The Legend of 1900 135 reviews Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Image Entertainment, 2002
Legend of 1900
+ The Legend of 1900
Caught part of this on TV and couldn't stop watching. Had to have it. Mostly dramatic with a little humor. Tim Roth is awesome as always. Good quality dvd.
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Everyone Says I Love You 79 reviews Alan Alda, Ami Almendral
Miramax, 1999
Satirical Musical
+ No good deed goes unpunished + Woody Allen loses his mind--to the audience's advantage
I taped this movie a couple of months ago and didn't watch it right away because I read that it was a musical. I wasn't coming up with any good images of Woody Allen doing song and dance. Boredom prompted me to take a look and I liked what I saw.
The plot of the movie is standard Woody ...
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Vatel 35 reviews Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman
Miramax, 2001
Gerard Depardieu is Brilliant
+ VATEL:Your life is not your own when owned by the King + Like "Babette's Feast" - this is a culinary gem.
Vatel, perhaps a weak title to a spectacular film; it recreates the excesses of the French court in its pre-off-with-their-heads-phase. In order to escape bankruptcy, the gout afflicted Viscount must entertain the King so sumptuously and so entreatingly, that the King may commission a war with ...
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Dark Water (Unrated Widescreen Edition) 190 reviews Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone, 2005
Anathema to say so in some quarters, but I preferred this to the original.
+ Hydro-Phobia...
I loved the original of "Dark Water" and expected to be disappointed by this, as in the terrible remake of "Ring", but I was very pleasantly surprised to find this was a most excellent movie and better than the original, in that this one didn't leave in what seemed like unnecessary parts, which in ...
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Gridlock'd 42 reviews Richmond Arquette, Charles Fleischer
Universal Studios, 2002
Gridlock'd (DVD)
+ gridlock' + Realistic Depiction of Drug Addiction + Must watch + A Very Overlooked Dark Comedy!
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