The MichaelVox Movie Review Weblog

2008

July 19, 2008
Campbell CA — Camera 7
USA
English / Cantonese
152 Minutes — July 18, 2008
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Christopher Nolan [Following; Memento; Batman Begins; The Prestige]

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The Dark Knight is the subject of Cinebanter Podcast Number 55. After you’ve seen the movie, listen to the spoiler-filled review by Tassoula and I by clicking the play button right here:

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Show Description:
• 00:00 Intro
• 00:32 THE DARK KNIGHT Discussion
• Break
• 25:22 To Sum It Up
• Break
• 25:48 The Last Five®
• Break
• 51:28 Listener Last Fives (Len in PA and Kate in VA)/Show Notes
• 1:05:46 Credits and Outtake

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Christian Bale [Empire Of The Sun; Henry V; Little Women; American Psycho; Captain Corelli's Mandolin; Laurel Canyon; Batman Begins; The New World; The Prestige; I'm Not There]

Heath Ledger [10 Things I Hate About You; The Patriot; Monster's Ball; Brokeback Mountain; Candy; I'm Not There]

Aaron Eckhart [In The Company Of Men; Your Friends & Neighbors; Any Given Sunday; Erin Brockovich; Nurse Betty; Thank You For Smoking]

Why So Serious?

8.2 Metacritic
9.2 IMDB #1

THE DARK KNIGHT

1949

June 24, 2008
Netflix Criterion DVD
UK
English / German / Russian
104 Minutes
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Carol Reed [Oliver!]
#24 They Shoot Pictures Don’t They Top 1000 Films Of All Time

“Solo Filmschool” movies are those on the big list of the 1000 best films of all time, which the crew over at TSPDT keeps track of and updates from time to time. The version of the list I used is from January 2010. My plan is to work my way down the list, watching all of them on DVD (if available), regardless of how slow-moving, or out of date they might appear at first. If a highly-regarded and serious film class is not available where you live, you could do a lot worse than using this list as a jumping off point.

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THE THIRD MAN is the subject of Cinebanter Podcast Number 54. After you’ve seen the movie, listen to the spoiler-filled review by Tassoula and I by clicking the play button right here:

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Show Description:
• 00:00 Intro
• 00:32 THE THIRD MAN Discussion
• Break
• 16:23 To Sum It Up
• Break
• 16:47 The Last Five®
• Break
• 25:36 Average Matt
• Break
• 32:10 Tassoula’s 5 Favorites from SIFF
• Break
• 49:29 Show Notes
• 51:56 Credits and Outtake

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An American pulp fiction writer goes to Vienna to meet an old friend and finds that he has disappeared in sinister circumstances.

An unintelligent but tenacious writer of Westerns arrives in post-war Vienna to join his old friend Harry Lime, who seems to have met with an accident…or has he?

Oscar Winner: Cinematography Robert Krasker
Oscar Nominee: Director Carol Reed, Editor Oswald Hafenrichter

#18 All Time Halliwell’s
#49 All Time IMDB
**** Halliwell’s
**** Ebert
**** Maltin
8.5 IMDB

THE THIRD MAN

2008

June 7, 2008
Milpitas CA — Century Great Mall
USA
English
113 Minutes
Action / Comedy
D: Dennis Dugan [The Howling; Hill Street Blues; Can't Buy Me Love; Parenthood; NYPD Blue; L.A. Law; Big Daddy]
W: Adam Sandler & Robert Smigel & Judd Apatow

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YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN is the subject of Cinebanter Podcast 53. After you’ve seen the movie, listen to the spoiler-filled review by Tassoula and I by clicking the play button right here:

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Show Notes:
• 00:32 SEX AND THE CITY Discussion
• Break
• 08:47 To Sum It Up (SATC)
• Break
• 09:02 YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN Discussion
• Break
• 19:22 To Sum It Up (ZOHAN)
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• 19:55 The Last Five®
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• 44:00 Listener Last Five (12-year-old Charlie)
• Break
• 50:26 From the Queue
• Break
• 56:46 Show Notes
• 57:41 Credits and Outtake

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Lather. Rinse. Save The World.

5.3 Metacritic
5.7 IMDB

YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN

2004

June 1, 2008
Netflix DVD
USA
English
87 Minutes
Drama
Nicole Kassell

What’s The Worst Thing You Ever Did?

After spending 12 years in prison, a pedophile is paroled and attempts to cope with his own desires and the hostility he meets.

The Woodsman is the “From The Queue” part of Cinebanter podcast #53 which is here .

***^ Ebert
B- Gleiberman
7.2 Metacritic
7.4 IMDB

THE WOODSMAN