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Horrible Bosses

July 11th, 2011
Horrible Bosses 

 

Horrible Bosses

Rating: ★★★★★

Movie: Horrible Bosses (2011)

Studio : New Line Cinema

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Runtime : 100 min

Website : horriblebossesmovie.com

Rating : R

Trailer :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiocxn

Review:

In a plot reminiscent of 9 to 5, Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) all work for different bosses (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Ferrell) which they can’t stand. Actually, that’s an understatement. They want to see them killed rather than work with them another day. There is only one problem. How to do it and not get caught? What started as a joke winds up turning into a full fledged plan to get rid of their employers who are standing in their way. Read more…

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Moon – Mystery SciFi Thriller

July 24th, 2009
Moon - Sam Rockwell, kevin Spacey

Moon - Sam Rockwell

Rating: ★★★★½

Movie: Moon (2009)

Studio : Liberty Films UK

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Runtime : 97min

Website : sonypictures.com/classics/moon/

Trailer : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jn9l

 

Review:

It’s been a while since I thought of Gerry Anderson’s Space1999, but Moon, directed by Duncan ‘I’m-David-Bowies’-kid-Jones made me feel all nostalgic for that long-ago TV series…and a whole lot more. This is a throw-back to the science-fiction films I grew up on, heavy on character, idea and story (remember ‘story’ kids?) and less on any real effects. I had thought this kind of science fiction filmmaking was over and I was tickled to see the use of miniatures (I assume), imaginatively treated sets, clothes and neato vehicles making a comeback. Used to be I could suspend belief quite easily because effects didn’t take me out of the element of the film but because of the recent spate of ridiculous CGI it’s been a long time for me to really get into and believe a film of a fantastic nature.

 Moon had me believing I really was ‘up there’ with Rockwell and his dilemma. 
Sam Rockwell playing Sam Bell, treats us to an unnerving 97 minutes, centered round the perfect dusty tightness of cinematographer Gary Shaw’s movements and sets. As we should all come to expect from Rockwell, his performance is top rate, in what can only be described, in the strictest sense of the word, a ‘dual role’. I knew the guy could act ever since I saw him as Chuck Barris in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind but watch the guy in this movie and you’re convinced he is one of the best of his generation.

Helped along by his GERTY robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey) a mystery is slowly revealed to explain just what and who Sam really is. And while laconic movies of this type usually implode after the secret is out, it is a testament to the power of Nathan Parker’s screenplay (Jones wrote the story but then handed screen writing over to Parker) and Rockwell’s amazing acting chops that keeps one engrossed with Moon, on the Moon, about Moon ‘til the very end.
 
-Ralph Greco, Jr.

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