BODY OF LIES
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
The depiction of international terrorism in the movies has come a long way since the likes of “Navy Seals,” but you wouldn’t know it watching “Body of Lies”…
Posted on October 10, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 98 minutes |
The whole thing feels like a continuation of Lucas’ experiments to see how much shit his dwindling supporters will take before finally saying “enough” and moving on to adult pursuits…
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
TROPIC THUNDER
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 107 minutes |
As Kirk Lazarus, the method man who “doesn’t get out of character until they do the DVD commentary” and surgically darkens his skin to play the black lead, Downey is a wonder. I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t think they could pull this off, but he absolutely destroys…
Posted on August 13, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 111 minutes |
The uneven nature of the movie is thanks to the story, which sounds exactly like something you or I would come up with after spending the afternoon getting baked and watching “North by Northwest” and “Die Hard”…
Posted on August 8, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 110 minutes |
Del Toro once again teams up with cinematographer Guillermo Navarro to create a series of fantastical set pieces, crammed with more bizarre creatures and offhand weirdness than you can possibly process in one viewing…
Posted on July 11, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 118 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Perhaps the most depressing aspect of “Gonzo” is the realization that Thompson’s suicide, while presaged by the Good Doctor himself, was at least partly attributable to George W. Bush’s ‘election’ in 2000…
Posted on July 5, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
HANCOCK
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 92 minutes |
It’s unfortunate for Sony that it felt the need to gut the movie, likely removing backstory that might have coaxed us into giving a shit about these characters…
Posted on July 4, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
FAMILIAR STRANGERS
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
Of course, there’s a flipside to making your family “dramedy” more down-to-earth, for while it doesn’t have as far to fall if it bombs, it isn’t going to reach such dizzying heights if it’s really good…
Posted on June 28, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
WANTED
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 110 minutes |
“Wanted’s” greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov’s (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film’s utter goofiness…
Posted on June 28, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
HENRY MAY LONG
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
Both Camargo and Barnhart appear capable of stretching themselves, it’s just too bad the script doesn’t let them…
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
SEX GALAXY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 76 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Admittedly, the plot is a bit thin, and the script is mostly an excuse for an unrelenting series of double entendres, but the narrative is secondary to the deft way in which Davis works with his footage…
Posted on June 26, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
DEADCENTER 2008: THE NAKED AND THE DEADCENTER (PART 2)
“A man drink like that and he don’t eat…he is going to die.”
Posted on June 20, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
DEADCENTER 2008: THE NAKED AND THE DEADCENTER (PART 3)
“A man drink like that and he don’t eat…he is going to die.”
Posted on June 20, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
OKIE NOODLING II
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 68 minutes |
2008 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY! You realize when Webb and others talk about the way noodling represents a way of life, one revolving around spending time with your family an friends, that they’ve got a point…
Posted on June 15, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
BARK OR BITE
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
2008 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM! “Bark or Bite” is a highly amusing take on our relationship with our pets and the generally unamusing concept of starvation…
Posted on June 15, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
