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Son of Rambow

by Eric Melin on May 23, 2008

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Inspiration comes in all forms and writer/director Garth Jennings gets that idea across with equal parts cliché and whimsy in this U.K. import.

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George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford resurrect one of America’s greatest heroes and update his story seamlessly into the late 1950s with mostly positive results.

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It boasts some nice VFX, but director Andrew Adamson still hasn’t figured out how to make this classic story stand out among even the most generic fantasy films.

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Speed Racer

by Eric Melin on May 9, 2008

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Pushes the boundaries of modern film language through seemingly impossible camera angles, constantly moving split-screen transitions, split-second close-ups, and zoom outs.

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Iron Man

by Eric Melin on May 1, 2008

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This superb Marvel comic adaptation takes itself seriously only when it absolutely has to in order to work as a character mythology.

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A raunchy, sophomoric stoner comedy with gratuitous nudity and shock humor that tries to shoehorn in two romantic subplots and celebrate America’s diversity by endlessly stereotyping it.

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88 Minutes

by JD Warnock on April 23, 2008

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Al Pacino learns, the hard way, the value of the “call blocker” feature in director Jon Avnet’s “88 Minutes”

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Jason Segel shows off a lot more than his acting/writing chops in this unflinchingly honest comedy that’s as nasty as they wanna be.

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Morgan Spurlock traveled to the Middle East to find Osama bin Laden, but all he got was this lousy T-shirt.

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Leatherheads

by Eric Melin on April 10, 2008

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George Clooney’s third movie as director is his third best as he tries to conjure up the movie magic of the 1930s.

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Shine A Light

by Eric Melin on April 3, 2008

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Martin Scorsese directs a love letter to the Rolling Stones in a small concert theater in the director’s favorite town.

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21

by JD Warnock on April 2, 2008

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Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess use their M.I.T. genius brains to put the hurt on Las Vegas.

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Run, Fatboy, Run

by Eric Melin on March 27, 2008

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David Schwimmer directs a barely above average romantic comedy with a very funny leading man, Simon Pegg, who also tidied up the script.

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Stop-Loss

by Eric Melin on March 27, 2008

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Kimberly Peirce’s Iraq war drama follows in the footsteps of “coming home” war movies, and asks some tough questions about the definition of duty.

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Drillbit Taylor

by Eric Melin on March 20, 2008

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It may be produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Seth Rogen, but this DOA PG-13 “Superbad” was directed by the guy whose last two movies were “Without a Paddle” and “Mr. Deeds.”

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