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The Internet Movie Database reports that the following pictures will be released in the US markets on Friday, February 1, 2008. 1.  The Eye Unfortunately this is a remake of a mediocre Hong Kong horror film of the same name.  The Eye is directed by David Moreau who is for all intents and purposes, a newcomer in [...]

Lucky Number Slevin can be seen almost as an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest from a more modern perspective with the clever, witty rapid speech of very early films.  The director Paul McGuigan seems to have made this adaptation work, and work very well at that. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lucky Number Slevin, 2006", [...]

It seems kind of funny to me to think that having written quite a few reviews many of my favorite movies aren’t yet among them. Such is the case with Alex Proyas’ 1998 neo-noir Dark City starring Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, and William Hurt in a world of perpetual darkness in an [...]

The Internet Movie Database reports the following movies will open January 25, 2008 in the US markets. 1. Untraceable Untraceable really might just as well bill itself as unwatchable. Directed by Gregory Hobit’s previous movies include Hart’s War (2002), Frequency (2000), and Fallen (1998), meaning that seriously since 1998 he hasn’t been capable of [...]

Roman Polanski’s 1974 masterpiece is not really something terribly easy to review more than thirty years later, but I’ll make an attempt because I recently saw it and might as well share my impressions. The plot is easily summarizable and is quintessentially film-noir almost because this movie itself changed film-noir into what it [...]

Waitress is the 2007 movie starring Keri Russell as Jenna, a bored waitress at a local restaurant specializing in custom pies created by Russell’s character.  Pie is used as a metaphor and an internal dialog as the pies are created within Jenna’s head and named after whatever is happening at the moment, for example, “I [...]

“Tsotsi” is urban slang for thug in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is where this movie is based.  It tells us a gripping story about life in the true poverty that may be found in the shantytowns of South Africa.  The Tsotsi/Thug to which the title refers is an anonymous black young adult who lives in [...]

Much has been said of Lindsay Lohan and her problems since Mean Girls originally came out and whether any of it is true or not, director Mark Waters has captured what made Lohan originally famous: her ability to play characters well. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mean Girls, 2004", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/mean-girls-2004/" });