Name: A.J. Hakari
Weblog: passportcinema.com
Articles: 44
First Published: Saturday, October 11, 2008
Last Published: Saturday, January 3, 2009
Currently listing articles 44-1:
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Wayside Cinema: Coogan's Bluff— This early Clint Eastwood picture features the man at his grizzled best.
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Passport Cinema: Casque d'Or— A gun moll and a reformed crook fall for each other in this romantic French gem.
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Movie Review: An American Carol— Even Michael Moore's detractors will find this insipid comedy insulting.
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Wayside Cinema: Room Service— The Marx Brothers stick it out in a hotel room in this terrific farce.
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Movie Review: The Spirit— Frank Miller's stab at superheroes is far from successful.
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Passport Cinema: Heroic Duo— A wronged cop and a hypnotist team up for this mediocre action-thriller.
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Movie Review: The Cheetah Girls - One World— Disney unleashes the least painful chapter of the "Cheetah Girls" trilogy.
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Movie Review: Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage— 'Twas the crud before Christmas...
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Wayside Cinema: Harper— Paul Newman headlines as a private eye in this uneven but offbeat mystery.
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Passport Cinema: A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds— The Criterion Collection provides two lovely versions of the same touching tale.
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Movie Review: Delgo— The cinema serves up another mediocre animated adventure.
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Wayside Cinema: O. Henry's Full House— Five of O. Henry's stories are brought to life in this wonderful anthology film.
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Movie Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)— This bland sci-fi opus hardly does justice to its brilliant predecessor.
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Passport Cinema: Mandabi— Greed definitely isn't good in this cautionary fable from Senegal.
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Movie Review: My Name Is Bruce— B-movie icon Bruce Campbell takes aim at himself in a goofy and hilarious satire.
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Wayside Cinema: Moontide— Jean Gabin may or may not have murdered in this decent pseudo-noir.
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Movie Review: Punisher - War Zone— Marvel's gun-toting vigilante returns in an over-the-top sequel.
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Passport Cinema: Gamer— France takes an ill-conceived stab at depicting gamer culture in this piddling dramedy.
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Movie Review: Fly Me to the Moon— This uninspired flick fails to get off the ground.
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Movie Review: Australia— The beautiful wilderness is the best part of this dull, overdone epic.
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Movie Review: Transporter 3— Jason Statham is back behind the wheel for this relatively fun third chapter in the "Transporter" series.
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Passport Cinema: 6 Films to Keep You Awake— A set of six Spanish horror flicks guaranteed to give you goosebumps.
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Movie Review: Twilight (2008)— Stephenie Meyer's supernatural romance comes to the screen in a rather bland and tepid adaptation.
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Passport Cinema: Battles Without Honor & Humanity— The gangster genre gets some true grit with this fast and fierce Yakuza story.
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Movie Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley— Scant scares ensue in this lame teen horror flick.
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Movie Review: RocknRolla— Guy Ritchie's latest is an exhausting and impenetrable caper.
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Movie Review: Quantum of Solace— Bond is back in a plenty entertaining sequel to Casino Royale.
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Passport Cinema: Jigoku— Nobuo Nakagawa takes viewers on a thin but visually splendid tour of the underworld.
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Movie Review: Role Models— Half sarcastic fun, half cornball mess.
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Passport Cinema: 8 Women— It's murder most fun with this frothy but very entertaining French musical.
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Movie Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno— Kevin Smith is back with a comedy whose mouth is as foul as its heart is big.
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Movie Review: Death Defying Acts— Harry Houdini bonds with a woman out to con him in this piddling period romance.
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Passport Cinema: Godzilla Raids Again— Godzilla demolishes Osaka in his second screen rampage.
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Movie Review: Mother of Tears— Grisly theatrics can't overcome a dunderheaded plot in Dario Argento's latest horror opus.
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Movie Review: High School Musical 3 - Senior Year— Teeny-boppers on parade in Disney's latest nauseating musical.
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Movie Review: Saw V— Does Jigsaw's fifth outing pack as much bite as its brothers?
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Passport Cinema: Le Doulos— To snitch or not to snitch? That is the question in this rather listless French noir.
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Movie Review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed— As sloppy an excuse for a film as there has ever existed.
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Movie Review: Max Payne— A.K.A. "Mark Wahlberg Needs to Poop: The Movie"
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Movie Review: W.— Oliver Stone delivers an absorbing and well-balanced look at the life and times of George W. Bush.
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Movie Review: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist— The search for an elusive band brings two teens together in this studio-bred indie wannabe.
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Movie Review: Pulse 2 - Afterlife— The sequel nobody wanted to the horror movie nobody liked!
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Movie Review: Le Deuxième Souffle— A gangster on the lam gets roped into one last job in this inconsistent French noir.
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Movie Review: Body of Lies— Ridley Scott takes on the spy genre in a taut, engaging, and well-acted thriller.
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