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"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the
dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
- Socrates explaining the advent of DVDs
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300
Yeah, keep telling yourself that this is a story for manly men who like beer and baseball and fightin'. Me? I'm comfortable
enough with my sexuality to see it for what it is... a group of men who like to oil one another up, wrestle with each other
and compare their six-packs. If you are a 14-year-old boy into theater and show tunes, this is nirvana. Everyone else, it's
pretty, but little else.
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Leonidas, you are so butch! |
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Renaissance
A French animated
'Blade Runner in Sin City.' Thoroughly confusing, but pretty as hell, this noir animation is worth checking out for some of
its sumptuous graphics, Daniel Craig plays a cop who may or may not by a robot and must chase down some evildoers in a rainy,
violent futuristic suburbia.
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a dazzling dose of 'what the hell...?' |
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The Darwin Awards
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must have seemed like a good idea at the time. How else could they have enlisted such a talented, diverse cast (Jospeh Finnes,
Winona Ryder, Lucas Haas, Juliette Lewis, John Doe, Julianna Margolies, Chris Penn, Metallica) to star in this comedy based
on the actual website devoted to people who off themselves doing so pretty stupid things. But aside from re-enactments of
actual blunders, there is little here to recommend, It's cheaply made and fairly lifeless, considering the slapstick subject
matter.
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Vacancy
While the comparisons to a certain Hitchockian film is inevitable, there
are just enough spooks and moments of tension that give reason to check in. Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson play a bickering
couple whose stay at a seedy roadside motel turns into an evening of terror as they try to escape a group of sickos who like
to taunt and kill occupants.
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check in, and check it out
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A Crude Awakening
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may want to rethink that Hummer purchase after watching this harrowing doc. Sure, there is a lot of what we already know,
but the consequences are dire in our lifetime. I am a hypocrite (I own an SUV), but you cab bet my next purchase will be a
rickshaw. Or maybe a mule.
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fill 'er up
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