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Entries from July 2008

Saints and Soldiers (2003)

July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

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Saints and Soldiers (2003)

The movie is based on actual historic events.
The plot: Middle of December, 1994. A unit of American soldiers is captured in Ardennes forest in Belgium. When one of the American soldiers tries to wrestle out a weapon from a German soldier, the Germans open fire on the prisoners. This event has later become known as [...]

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Tags: Action · Adventure · DVD · Drama · Epics/Historical · Movies · War

Battleship Potemkin (1925/2005)

July 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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Battleship Potemkin (1925/2005)

I got the latest (or one of the most recent ones) Pet Shop Boys album, “Battleship Potemkin“. I was interested because I am a big fan of the movie. Sergei Eisenstein directed this silent movie in 1925 - just a few months after Stalin came to power. Since he was a Jew he didn’t [...]

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Tags: Classic Films · DVD · Drama · Epics/Historical · Foreign · Movies · Silent · USSR · War

Bridge To Terabithia (2007)

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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Bridge To Terabithia (2007)

Warning: this is Disney. This is a good sweet movie, but it’s a fairy tale for kids.
The plot: a 10-year old boy Jess from a poor family wants to be the fastest runner in his class, but he is outran by a new girl, Leslie, in Jess’ school, although the race was called a “boys [...]

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Tags: DVD · Drama · Fantasy · Movies