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Cover of Slumdog Millionaire [Blu-ray]Movie quotes:"Did I say the weather is great? Well, it is. Though flash floods potential is still present. There's four-prong major canyons upstream from me that all converge in this 3 foot wide gap where I am. The rock I pulled down on top of me, it was put there by flood. Still, I'd get a drink."- Aron RalstonAt a glance:ataglanceOur review (with spoilers): Aron Ralston (James Franco) is an outdoor adventurer (you know, mountain biker, climber, canyoner, and general risk taker) who lives life for the rush of experience and sees little need to maintain relationships. It’s not that he’s a bad person...
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Image by Getty Images via @daylifeMovie quotes:"They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They'd keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank god for the catfish because we would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin."-...
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Image via WikipediaMovie quotes:"You’ll always be beautiful to me."- Oliver (to Laura)At a glance:This simple parable about inner beauty and love is told with elegance and graceOur review (with spoilers): Boy, did they know how to make movies back then! No complicated plots, no pyrotechnics, no messing with the timeline – just a very simple and elegant parable about how it’s what’s on the inside of a person that counts, and not one’s outward appearance.Laura (Dorothy McGuire) is a sweet, ‘homely’ girl without a family who is taken in by Mrs. Minnett (Mildred Natwick), a widower who owns and occasionally rents an old cottage in the small...
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At a glance:Frozen takes a great, simple concept (three people stranded on a chair lift) and squanders it with bickering and plot contrivancesOur review (with spoilers):There’s nothing like a pure concept movie. And here’s the concept: two bratty skiers and one nice girl bribe their way onto the chairlift rather than pay full price for lift tickets. With time and light running out, they negotiate one last lift ride. The ride operator is called away and forgets all about them, the power is shut off, and the ski resort is closed down on Sunday night, to re-open five days later – and the three people are stranded on the chairlift. That’s...
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Movie quotes:Wallace Wells: If you want something bad, you have to fight for it. Step up your game, Scott. Break out the L-word.Scott Pilgrim: Lesbian?Wallace Wells: The other L-word.Scott Pilgrim: ...Lesbians?"You made me swallow my gum! That's going to be in my digestive tract for seven years!"- Gideon Gordon GravesStacey Pilgrim: I mean, did you really see a future with this girl?Scott Pilgrim: Like... with jetpacks.Envy Adams: You are incorrigible.Todd Ingram: I don't know the meaning of the word.[Text on screen]: He really doesn't.At a glance:Michael Cera is wonderful as a neurotic nerd who fights like a video game character against the...
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At a glance:This Japanese horror/drama has enough style and quirky acting to overcome its convoluted plotOur review (with spoilers):My favorable opinion of Black Kiss is far from subjective. It is skewed by my appreciation for unusual, thoughtful films. It is enhanced by my fond memories of my brief visit to Japan in 1999, and for my desire to see more of Tokyo and Shinjuku again. Blessed with strange, occasionally stylistically fast editing, and cursed with an almost fanatical tortoise-like speed in revealing its story, Black Kiss is a study in contrasts. Amid the photogenic doll-like beauty of young Japanese women/models, there is a...
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At a glance:Writer/director Nicole Holofcener expertly creates characters that portray the difference between caring, pity, and indifference in this gentle New-York-based comedy/dramaOur review (with spoilers):Wonderful slice of life dramedy about Kate and Alex (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt), a middle aged couple who live quite nicely by buying furniture from the children of recently deceased New Yorkers. Kate’s got a conscience, however, that is being exposed by her incessant profit-taking. It isn’t helped when she and Alex buy the next door apartment and have to deal with the ‘direct’ elderly woman (Ann Morgan Guilbert) who lives in it,...
