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One of the most emotionally wrenching movies I’ve seen. I felt drained when it got over. It doesn’t put a step wrong anywhere during its running time. The story is about a woman who wants to become a boxer, and the crusty old man who becomes her trainer, her mentor, her friend, everything. There’s a
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My favourite movie of all time. A man and a woman meet on a train. He is an American, on his way to Vienna to catch a plane back home the next day. She is a student, on her way to school in Paris. They start talking, and find each other quite easy to converse
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*ing Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench Like most other Bond fans, I’ve watched every Bond movie made so far, with the sole exception of the earlier Casino Royale. And like every Bond fan, I’ve worshipped at the altar of Sean Connery. I rate Goldfinger among the best movies I’ve seen. It was
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There’s a scene in Insomnia where Al Pacino tries to get some sleep in his hotel room, but since it’s daylight 24×7 in Nightmute, he can’t get any sleep. So he papers all the windows so the light can’t come in, but it still keeps streaming in through the gaps. Background: Pacino plays a cop
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I watched Casino Royale a few days ago. awesome movie, with a mesmerizing performance by Daniel Craig in his first Bond outing. There were a lot of dissenting voices when he was first chosen, but after this movie, I can’t imagine anybody still objecting. I have this long-overdue rant about Sean Connery as James Bond.
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*ing: Billy bob Thornton, Halle Berry Stated simply, Monster’s Ball is among the best romances I’ve ever seen. However, it is not a love story. It is about two wounded people reaching out, and discovering, in the process, that they are still capable of love. Hank is an executioner at the local penitentiary. His father
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*ing: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr.Directed by: Curtis Hanson Grady Tripp, the narrator and central character in Wonder Boys smokes a lot. Not normal cigarettes – he smokes joints laced with weed. This is an important observation, I think, because watching this movie gives you the feeling that the
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