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Entries from July 2008

Movies to see this week (Nov 30, 2007)

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

//Opening in theatres:

Awake (2007) R - In United States, more then 60,000 people every year experience what’s called “anesthetical awareness”, a condition when anesthesia fails during surgery, so the patient can feel the pain, but because he/she is paralyzed, cannot do anything about it. This is a story of one of the “victims”. Drama/Thriller.
Badland (2007) R [...]

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Review of “Arthur and the Invisibles” (2006) PG 103min

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

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This film comes from a great French director Luc Besson, who is the king of French action movies. Here in the U.S. of A. we know him for creating “The Fifth Element“, which he conceived when he was a teenager, for [briefly] being married to Milla Jovovich, and producing such action flicks as Leon with [...]

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Tags: Adventure · Animation · DVD · Fantasy · Movies

Review of “No Country for Old Men” (2007) R 122min

November 25th, 2007 · 7 Comments

//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 the desert somewhere in Texas and discovers suitcase with two million dollars. He tries to disappear with the [...]

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Tags: Crime/Gangster · Drama · Movies · Thrillers/Suspense