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Elegy

28 Nov

Kingsley charges into his role like a lion, showing David’s brashness in preying on the young girls he so dearly missed out on during his married youth, but he also brings regret, vulnerability, and cluelessness to David that make him worthy of sympathy.

Penelope Cruz couldn’t be better as his above-age Lolita, bringing a soft-spoken sexiness and warmth to a woman trying mightily to disarm a man primarily drawn to women as play things.

Where has Dennis Hopper been? This is one of his best performances in a long time, playing a man whose gone through the wringer a couple times with relationships himself who now offers up his own wisdom, coupled with some comic relief as well.

Driven by Isabel Coixet’s visually assured and deeply observant direction, ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him.

enjoy! ;) magic

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Director
Isabel Coixet

Writers
Nicholas Meyer
Philip Rot

Release Date
8 August 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Romance

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Space Chimps

28 Nov

Every scene was so rushed that the characters and their dynamics with each other lacked any real development, and every attempt at making the audience feel what was going on in the moment (or even caring at all) was murdered by this fact.

Obviously, I don’t need to say much more about the writing quality than I already have; it was just lazy, lazy, lazy.

Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator.

Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader.

have fun! ;) magic

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Director
Kirk De Micco

Writers
Kirk De Micco
Robert Moreland

Release Date
1 August 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Twilight

22 Nov

Surprisingly, Twilight wasn’t that bad of a film.

I expected it to be much worse, it’s hard to make a convincing film – they had to over act looks to try and communicate without many words.

Edward falls in love with Bella but knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk.

Edward warns Bella that she should leave him but she refuses to listen and to understand why he is saying this.

have fun! ;) magic

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Director
Catherine Hardwicke

Writers
Melissa Rosenberg
Stephenie Meyer

Release Date
19 December 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller 

Tagline
When you can live forever what do you live for?

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Mamma Mia!

16 Nov

Sophie, who lives with her mother in a dilapidated hotel on an idyllic Greek island, wants nothing more than for her father to be at her forthcoming wedding.

The trouble is her father could be any one of three men with whom her mother dot dot dotted twenty years ago.

So Sophie invites all three of them to her wedding and, as expected, complications ensue.

The story, such as it is, is quite strong enough to enable the songs to be hooked onto it.

Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.

Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA’s songs from “Dancing Queen” and “S.O.S.” to “Money, Money, Money” and “Take a Chance on Me,” Mamma Mia! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.

(and the remixes are not bad either!) ;) magic

Mamma Mia

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Director
Phyllida Lloyd

Writer
Catherine Johnson

Release Date
10 July 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Musical | Romance 

Tagline
Take a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget

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Zak And Miri Make A Porno

15 Nov

What makes the movie work so well is the amazing platonic and romantic chemistry of the two leads, Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.

I can’t think of two performers who have skyrocketed more in terms of fame over the last three years.

Have faith in the fact that this film, despite being controversial and borderline wrong in some parts, is one of the funniest and romantic comedies of the decade.

What happens when you mix Kevin Smith’s witty and snappy dialog with the outrageous humor of a guy like Seth Rogen? Pure brilliance, that’s what. ;)

Roommates and longtime friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) meet a gay couple (Brandon Routh and Justin Long) at a high school reunion held on the eve of Thanksgiving.

One of these guys (Routh) is so handsome and charming Miri crudely and of course futilely propositions him on the spot.

It turns out the gay men produce and act in their own profitable line of gay porn films.

;) magic

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Director
Kevin Smith

Writer
Kevin Smith

Release Date
14 November 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Romance

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

08 Nov

When summer finally rolls around, the four girlfriends realize that each has their own goals and agendas, and that time spent together has become more difficult and seemingly less important.

Their coven-like rituals of sharing adventures has steadily lost its meaning, and the foursome discovers that their summer is going to be drastically more independent.

Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have-with honesty and humor.

Discovering their individual strengths, fears, talents and capacity for love through the choices they make, they come to value more than ever the bond they share and the immeasurable power of their friendship.

more of a chick flick ;) magic

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Director
Sanaa Hamri

Writers
Elizabeth Chandler
Ann Brashares

Release Date
6 August 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Wall-E

04 Nov

The best way to describe the film is as a science fiction, comedy, dramatic love story.

Wall-E, as a character, has dimension, personality, and heart.

Pretty impressive given that he is essentially a trash compactor.

It is true that there is little dialogue in this feature, but personally I did not feel it detracted from the story at all.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve.

Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans.

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Wall-E

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Director
Andrew Stanton

Writers
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter

Release Date
18 July 2008 (UK)

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi 

Tagline
An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

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Cherry Blossoms

02 Nov

As the story unfolds the movie more and more reminded me of “About Schmidt “and “Lost in Translation”.

However compared to “About Schmidt” this movie goes a lot deeper, has more poetry and more philosophy.

When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth.

Franzi and Karl don’t care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies.

Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan.

;) magic

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Director
Doris Dörrie

Writer
Doris Dörrie

Release Date
6 March 2008 (Germany)

Genre
Romance | Drama

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year

28 Oct

High School Musical 3

The movie starts out well enough with great dance sequences and cute jokes but as the movie goes on it starts to fizzle out.

The dances and sets are amazing but that is to be expected because it is on the big big screen but the acting and plot leaves little to the imagination.

The break out stars have to be Zac and Ashley but I was disappointed that Ashely was not given a bigger role and the movie focused more on Troy and Gabriella.

The plot lacked drama and stayed on one flat line instead of taking the audience on a ride

It’s a good movie but I still think the best on is the original which is the case in most movie franchises.

have fun dancing! ;) magic

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Director
Kenny Ortega

Writers
Peter Barsocchini

Release Date
22 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline
high school graduation

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Youth Without Youth

25 Oct

This is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea and has a pretty good chance of becoming a cult film.

It explores major philosophic subjects from a dialectic angle, which might confuse pedestrians.

In a nutshell: an elderly professor is challenged by his inability to complete his life’s work.

He is struck by lightning and gets the opportunity to observe life from a meta-human POV.

He realizes that intellect, love , morals and reality in general are always ambiguous.

A love story wrapped in a mystery , “Youth Without Youth” stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years prior to World War II.

;) magic

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Director
Francis Ford Coppola

Writers
Francis Ford Coppola
Mircea Eliade

Release Date
14 December 2007 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Romance | Thriller

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