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18 July 2006
Beowulf & Grendel
Directed by: Sturla Gunnarson
Starring: Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley
Interesting, but overall unimpressive. Low production value is outweighed by stunning locations, and the performances help keep this watchable. Roughly comparable to Branagh’s Frankenstein.
If you’re not familiar with the story, worth checking out in preparation of next year’s CGI animated Beowulf (co-written by Neil Gaiman and [...]
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13 July 2006
PS3 rumours…
So a couple small items that could have some major implications.
Months ago the rumour mill churned out reports that Sony was working on an anti-piracy solution that would entail digitally encoding a game disc with the info of the system it was first played on, making it unplayable on any other system. If successful, would [...]
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11 July 2006
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Steve Coogan, and Scully(? Yes, Scully)
The notoriously unfilmable movie. Classic novel written centuries before it’s time, and is a stream-of-consciousness jumble of ideas and insights. The movie does the same. What begins as an adaptation of the novel, degrades into a mockumentary style examination of the star and the production.
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11 July 2006
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: a geriatric Sharon Stone
Ugh. I don’t even like the first one when I might be interested in a *young* Sharon Stone.
Bottom Line: You couldn’t PAY me to watch this one
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7 July 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Stellan Skarsgard, and Bill Nighy
It is a middle child, and therefore cannot be judged solely by itself. To doso would take it out of context, and in fact, is more of a middle child than I expected. They were filming both sequels together, and the [...]
