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Review of 2010 (1984)

By Mel V (186) on 11 Feb 2008

I guess this will be my Roy Scheider Tribute. People will remember him for JAWS. I will remember him most for 2010…

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Review of When Worlds Collide (1951)

By Mel V (186) on 09 Feb 2008

Almost fifty years before [i]Armageddon[/i] or [i]Deep Impact[/i] depicted the world nearly destroyed by a rogue asteroid, [i]When Worlds Collide[/i]…

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Review of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

By Mel V (186) on 02 Feb 2008

Monster Movies Really Began Here…

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Review of Things to Come (1936)

By Mel V (186) on 16 Dec 2007

Coherent with the beliefs of the pre WW2 era: technology and science will save us all…

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Review of Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

By Mel V (186) on 10 Dec 2007

For his first feature-length film, director Andrew Wagner ([i]The Talent Given Us[/i]) had a $500,000 budget, an 18-day shooting schedule,…

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Review of The Joy Luck Club (1993)

By Mel V (186) on 11 Nov 2007

It was a very moving story....one of the most memorable movies I've ever seen…

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Review of Winchester '73 (1950)

By Mel V (186) on 14 Oct 2007

Great western centering around a rifle that continually changes hands…

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Review of The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)

By Mel V (186) on 11 Aug 2007

This is a reponse to Kat. it's ok if you don't want to see the movie.. but your comment is simply ignorant…

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Review of Stephanie Daley (2007)

By Mel V (186) on 13 Jun 2007

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, [i]Stephanie Daley[/i], writer/director Hilary Brougher…

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Review of Everything's Cool (2007)

By Mel V (186) on 07 May 2007

SCREENED AT THE 2007 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary, [i]An Inconvenient Truth[/i],…

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Review of Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2013)

By Mel V (186) on 06 May 2007

SCREENED AT THE 2007 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams and dramaturge/director Peter Sellars…

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Review of Jindabyne (2006)

By Mel V (186) on 05 May 2007

SCREENED AT THE 2007 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: In twenty-two years, Australian filmmaker Ray Lawrence has directed just three…

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Review of Protagonist (2007)

By Mel V (186) on 29 Apr 2007

Kind of weird, but the four men interviewed in this film have some very interesting stories to tell…

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Review of Reprise (2006)

By Mel V (186) on 14 Apr 2007

The movie won a golden tulip from Istanbul Film Festival…

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Review of Into Great Silence (2005)

By Mel V (186) on 11 Mar 2007

Twenty years ago, German filmmaker Philip Groening ([i]L'Amour, l'argent, l'amour[/i]) approached the strict, reclusive Carthusian Order about…

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Review of Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

By Mel V (186) on 24 Dec 2006

Ridiculously, ludicrously, abysmally bad, [i]Journey to the Seventh Planet[/i], is science fiction at its cheapest and cheesiest, bereft of…

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Review of Invisible Invaders (1959)

By Mel V (186) on 23 Dec 2006

With a title like [i]Invisible Invaders[/i], a tagline that promised, ?An unearthly enemy defying modern science in a war to the death,…

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Review of Opal Dream (2006)

By Mel V (186) on 02 Dec 2006

Directed Peter Cattaneo ([i]The Full Monty[/i]) and adapted from Ben Rice's debut novel, [i]Pobby and Dingan[/i], [i]Opal Dream[/i] is the…

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Review of Mutual Appreciation (2005)

By Mel V (186) on 05 Sep 2006

This movie was trying to be two different movies at once, so it came off as a poor effort…

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Review of Quinceañera (2006)

By Mel V (186) on 02 Aug 2006

Teen pregnancy, homosexuality, class, racism, gentrification, assimilation, acculturation, tradition, religion, and tolerance: alone, they…

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