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"Beowulf" howls at the IMAX

2007-11-20 02:09:55 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...contentious Grendel (Crispin Glover). Beowulf then challenges Grendel's mother Angelina Jolie) alone in her lair While he remains true to the narrative facts, Zemeckis and screen writers Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman provide historical details and unique character motivations Far from being a monstrous hag, Grendel's Mother takes on a siren...
 
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DAY 8: 1941 (1979)

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2007-08-08 17:28:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...contentious relationship between John Candy and Frank McRae). While one could make the argument that the film is actually addressing these racist realities by depicting them in their most extreme and absurd light (in a manner similar to All in the Family or Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles ) it seems pretty clear to me that the film is not really...
 
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DAY 13: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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2007-08-13 16:43:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...contentious relationship is set up as Indy uses her for a hostage to avoid getting shot by one of Lao's two sons. Eventually Lao receives his reward while Indy is paid with a large diamond and unwittingly drinks a glass of poisoned champagne to which Lao flaunts the antidote Soon pandemonium breaks out and in a typically Spielbergian...
 
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DAY 17: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

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2007-08-17 23:25:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...contentious relationship with his father Arnold (the resentment being reflected in his films through the recurring theme of an irrelevant, absentee or even abusive father). Finally, after many years, Steven and Arnold reconciled in what the director has called a tremendous coming together: a meeting of the hearts and of the minds between a...
 
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A Švankmajer timeline

2007-12-02 21:16:41 by michael in Kinoblog
 
...contentious projects, but the addition of unscripted and unauthorised vignettes of everyday Czech life leads to a vitriolic denunciation in Czech Communist newspaper Rudé právo and demands for censorship. Švankmajer begins a lengthy series of works in various media on the subject of natural history, culminating in the Švankmajer...
 
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"Prince, I wish you had seen an execution."

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2007-11-16 17:55:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
 
...contentious now. It was all the tragic end to an unfortunate situation that had been handled the best way possible. Sad, but unavoidable But, days, weeks later counter-details begin to emerge: eyewitnesses telling a slightly different story, toxicology results that reveal Dziekanski was neither drunk nor high at the time of his death And...
 
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Zomdingo

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2007-12-17 18:35:00 by ARBOGAST in Arbogast on Film
...contentious psychology, which however potentially offensive at least was more interesting to talk about than whether zombies should move slowly or quickly and whether they should eat flesh or brains. Gimme that old time voodoo any day
 
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Father and Son[s]: Daniel Plainview, Patriarch

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2008-01-06 14:17:05 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...contentious relationship between Day-Lewiss character and said characters son. And while I did not recognize the child actor playing the son, I did of course recognize actor Paul Dano, and I assumed that he was playing the son as a late teen/young man I was wrong, of course. But I was also right, in a sense The first son, is, of course,...
 
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Father and Son[s]: Daniel Plainview, Patriarch

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2008-01-06 14:17:05 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...contentious relationship between Day-Lewis???s character and said character???s son. And while I did not recognize the child actor playing the son, I did of course recognize actor Paul Dano, and I assumed that he was playing the son as a late teen/young man I was wrong, of course. But I was also right, in a sense The first son, is, of course,...
 
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POLITICAL TV: CNN Democratic Debate 1-21-08

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2008-01-22 03:06:00 by Moviezzz in The Moviezzz Blog
 
...contentious (and I gave up watching THE TERMINATOR for this All in all, I think Obama came out the strongest in the first half (since he seemed to be the focus of everyone's attacks and held them all off) but the second half was a draw, although Edwards had some good points about campaign finance reform. However campaign finance reform is...