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Into The Wild
2007-11-28 08:00:00
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt Director: Sean Penn Release Date: September 21, 2007 Running time: 140 min MPAA Rating: R Distributors: Paramount Vantage - - - Review by David DiMichele - - - Twenty-two year-old Christopher McCandless has just graduated from Emory University and despite plans to go to Harvard law school, the kid is just not happy. Some of his ideas would make you call him wise but other of those ideas would make you call him a psychopath. The world he wished existed exists only in his brain and in the wilderness. It seems that it's his ideas that drive him away from his family. Everyone deserves to get away from the everyday world now and then, but not to this kind of extreme. I believed everything about Into the Wild except the reason behind the handsome young man leaving his home. So, when the ending came, it was hard for me to feel any sort of sympathy for our journeyman.

IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA: Romantic Visions
2007-11-20 03:58:00
We've been impressed by the reviews and reports of two film reviewers we've come to admire regarding one film - In the City of Sylvia (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809425). Written and directed by José Luis Guerin, this film is simply extraordinary. - - - - - - Says Daniel Kasman (http://d-kaz.com): A loose theme of the best films seen thus far from this year’s New York Film Festival are films that do so much with so little. Resting on slim stories and minimal dialog, films like Flight of the Red Balloon, The Man From London, and Paranoid Park put aesthetics above script and in turn emphasize ambiance and abstractions over concrete meanings and narrative progression. José Luis Guerin’s stunningly lovely In the City of Sylvia more than belongs in the company of these tremendous auteurs, all the more so because his film seems to work with the slightest of all scenarios: a man (Xavier Lafitte) arrives in a foreign city and proceeds to look for a woman na...
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Dan in Real Life
2007-11-20 03:07:00
Starring: Steve Carrell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Dianne West Director: Peter Hedges Release Date: October 26, 2007 Running time: 95 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 Distributors: Touchstone Pictures - - - Review by: Jeremy Welsch - - - “Honey if you call and I'm not home I'll be at the gym or the gun club.” - Jack Butler, Mr. Mom The Skinny: Steve Carrell is a single father of three girls who tries to pick up a woman who ends up being his brother’s girlfriend he was planning to introduce during a family function. Now they all have to spend the weekend together. The Review: It’s funny how differently things hit you on different days. Depending on the day or week you are having, a movie can either sit well with you or sit like a ton of bricks. I wasn’t really expecting too much from this film, but I guess a funny thing happened on the way to the forum…
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Sicko
2007-11-20 03:05:00
The Skinny: Michael Moore takes on the United States health care system. The Review: I've always found watching documentaries from a critical stand point to be something of a conundrum. On one hand, you are watching a movie so you are analyzing the entertainment value of the film. On the other, you are watching a documentary so the subject matter itself becomes part of the overall critique. Sure, in feature films the subject matter is always important, but you typically don't have your beliefs challenged or called into question as much as you do in a documentary. I mean, I can watch American Psycho and know it's a great movie without being in agreement with the psychopathic murderer's point of view. That being said, you can't watch a movie like Sicko and ignore the content. That sort of defeats the purpose of watching it in the first place. My personal belief is that the information we get from the media in this country is carefully orchestrated and spoon-fed to us with a s...

MORE CHARLIE HUNNAM: A few high-res scans for you!
2007-10-19 06:22:00
He's been a tMF favorite since forever and we're just about ready to launch a profile! In the meantime, take a look at some rather 'old' scans featuring this cool actor. - - - - - - [ Charlie 1 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/charlie_hunnam_tmf1.jpg) ] [ Charlie 2 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/charlie_hunnam_tmf2.jpg) ] [ Charlie 3 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/charlie_hunnam_tmf3.jpg) ]
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JOE LEVITT by Hedi Slimane: A few high-res scans!
2007-10-19 06:12:00
- - - Hedi Slimane, the designer of the über-cool Dior Homme, once photographed tMF favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Of course, he's wearing Dior! Says the designer: Joseph isn't that different from the models I usually worked with. The shoot was very casual. It was just the two of us. There was no agenda. As you can see from the photos, Slimane did show Joe in a different light! See the high-res scans by clicking any of the links below: [ Joe Levitt 1 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/joe_levitt_tmf1.jpg) ] [ Joe Levitt 2 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/joe_levitt_tmf2.jpg) ] [ Joe Levitt 3 (http://www.themovie-fanatic.com/scans_tm f/joe_levitt_tmf2.jpg) ]
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