Cloverfield, 2008

Matt Reeves’s much marketed 2008 action/horror/thriller Cloverfield lives up to its hype.  It takes the point-of-view camera technique utilized in The Blair Witch Project and brings it to new extremes as it ekes out a truly creepy and unsettling looking at an attack on Manhattan by what can only be described as a monster. Continue [...]
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Movies Opening February 8, 2008

1.  Fool’s Gold The most well-known and predictable of this week’s releases is a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, and Donald Sutherland.  Directed by Andy Tennant whose previous credits include Sweet Home Alabama, Fools Rush In and Hitch, this movie tells the story of a married couple who discover rumors of a missing treasure [...]
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Movies Opening January 18, 2008

 IMDb reports that five new movies will be released to cinemas this Friday: 1.  Cloverfield The director Matt Reeves seems to have taken a hiatus from feature-length movies…his last one was The Pallbearer in 1996 and since then he has spent most of his time working with television.  That said, there is an incredible amount of buzz [...]
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