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Shaun of the Dead 2004
Great fun!
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A Serious Man 2009
So I watch "A Serious Man", Joel & Ethan Coen's ode to mid-Western, 1967, Jewish life. For me, Coen brother movies are either some of my favorite movies (Blood Simple, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Fargo) or some of my least favorite movies (Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There). Unfortunately for me, I think "A Serious Man" falls into the latter category. Basically, like "Barton Fink", I didn't understand it and like "The Man Who Wasn't…
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Red 2010
Just finished watching the last 2/3rds of "Red", the kinetic, over-the-top, over-the-hill gang action movie, featuring Bruce Willis, John Malkovic, Helen Mirren and Mary-Louise Parker. It was pretty fun although quite ridiculous. It sure seems like they were having a blast making the movie. A couple cool movie tricks (like when Malkovic shot the RPG coming at him, causing a back blast that took out the shooter) raised this up a little. Enjoyable waste of time, I guess.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
A professional hit man who goes by the name of "Ghost Dog", gets crossed up by the mob and is forced to fight back. That's the one line synopsis of director Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, starring Forest Whitaker as the hitman who lives by the code of the samurai. As you may recall from my glowing review of Dead Man, I'm a huge Jarmusch fan. But this move just left me shaking my…
