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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
4 stars
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From the beginning, the screech of the score & the unnerving tang of the metal against rock set the tone. Not unlike Saving Private Ryan, the first 15 or so minutes of this movie are painful to watch. There’s no dialogue, no flashy MTV-style editing. Just Daniel Day-Lewis in a shaft. A filthy, life-threatening shaft.

Directed by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
3.5 stars
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This film is exactly why I don’t like knowing too much about a film prior to seeing it. Going into the theatre, I expected to view a film in which I wouldn’t be able to tell which black & white drawing was the main character & also in which I would see & hear a lot of political rhetoric about Iran.

Following up on an earlier post, we have found the solution to our RSS and mailing list issue.

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Long, long before I started HollywoodChicago.com, I regularly blogged at LiveJournal. It focused more on my personal side of things. I retired the blog quite some time ago and removed all the posts.

Y’know … just in case.

The ratings and reviews posted on this site reflect the opinions of their authors and do not reflect the opinion of HollywoodChicago.com.

Directed by: Andy Fickman
2 stars
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“Shakespeare. I did this movie because of Shakespeare.”
- one of the actresses in the movie who made her debut in a “reality” film

Directed by: George Clooney
4 stars
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I think it’s well-established by now that I don’t like talking about movies within 24 hours of viewing them.

That being said, not five minutes after exiting the theatre, I told my friend, “I can say with 99.5% certainty that I will not veer from this opinion right now. I liked this movie.”

Directed by: Joss Whedon
3 stars
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Considering I’m a HUGE fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it goes without saying that I’m a Joss Whedon fan.

However, I’m not particularly a fan of SciFi nor did I ever watch even one episode of the television series, “Firefly,” upon which this movie was based. Yet.