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Ten Cents a Dance!

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2008-08-20 01:27:00 by Erich Kuersten in Bright Lights After Dark
...jerky; all the actors (excluding the "born smart" Babs) seem microphone conscious, and slow to enunciate, trapped in dorky types - the bachelor good guy shoved into the model of a straw hat college boy slummer; the weasel starting out one of those frazzled Odets-ianly earnest "forgotten men." But as the film creaks along, the oil slowly...
 
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Rapturious (2007)

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2007-11-09 13:52:00 by Greg B. in The Playground Movie Reviews
...Jerky Boys , Kamal Ahmed ? Nevermind it being very low budget. I've loved many low budget horror flicks that worked. This was just inept in every way possible But don't take my word for it, let's ask The Playground 's patented "Checklist-O-Matic Rapturious Corny Checklist Plot - Check Dialogue - Check Acting - Check Effects - Check Rapping...
 
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Short Film Week, Day 5: Four short films

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2007-12-06 23:58:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...jerky slow motion, and the scene where the mother slaps Davey's sister is a shockingly hilarious moment, the slap and the sister's reaction both happening in awkwardly paced slo-mo. It's a brief film, just 16 minutes long, and available as a very appropriate companion piece to Haynes' Dottie Gets Spanked on the Zeitgeist DVD. This is well...
 
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Standing In The Way Of Control

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2007-10-09 12:04:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...jerky, arm flinging dance. He grips the microphone with a frightening intensity. Away from imitation, Riley plays a difficult, almost silent role with aplomb. Beside him, Morton plays the young Deborah as a committed wife whose love for Curtis is palpable, but who has had to put herself second to his career. Control is a far more serious, and...
 
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A Conversation with Writer-Director Don Mancini Pt 2: FILM CRITICISM, THE STATE OF HORROR, THE MOVIES OF 2007 (so far) AND WHAT'S COMING NEXT...

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2007-11-06 00:19:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...jerky and mangled, so theres this unnerving jump-cut quality to it DM : I think everyone really wants Eli Roth to make that movie DC : Id pay to see it DM : Me too. Oh, and Bug ! That was my horror movie of the year. The audience, such as it was There were probably five other people for a weekend matineehated it, hissed at the end. It so...
 
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Brown Rice and Vegetables

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2006-01-11 08:45:08 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...jerky grinding as spit-take laughable as the Hercules -meets- Xanadu -meets- The Wild Angels setpieces of the Vegas floorshow her opportunistic diva aspires to conquer. She has the child-like naivete but none of the nuance that Mark Wahlberg brought to his similarly-themed role that was the backbone of Boogie Nights . Disavowing Berkley's...
 
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12/18: Lola

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2007-12-18 23:59:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...jerky movement and crack in her voice. Mario Adorf is equally notable in his only role for Fassbinder, burning up the screen as the sleazy but undeniably vibrant contractor Schukert, his energy swallowing up everything around him. It goes without saying that Mueller-Stahl is exceptional as Von Bohm, exuding exactly the quiet strength that the...
 
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Beowulf - review

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2007-11-18 20:44:00 by Matt A in DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt
...jerky characterisations of Danish king Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins), his slimy advisor Unferth (John Malkovich) and lovely queen Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn). Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark however and it goes by the name Grendel (Crispin Glover) a monstrous troll with a taste for chomping on the local populace The King...
 
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Whatever It Is, Kill It.

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2007-12-26 07:07:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...jerky little gait that resembles nothing to be found in the realm of human motion. She looks a bit like a bobblehead doll walking on eggshells, which seems at once mechanized (like an automaton on a theme-park ride) and strangely Muppet-like. After a while, I concluded that what it reminded of me most was Sesame Streets Grover, mainly owing...
 
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Mission Insane Post

2007-12-27 00:37:49 by Editor in Mission:Insane Fic Challenge
 
...jerky and uncontrollable and it was at this point that he released Peter from his grasp. In an instant they were both shooting their loads; Pe