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[ 2009 ]
"Jerichow" *


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[2010]
"A Film Unfinished"


[2009]
"Leonard Cohen at The Isle of Wight 1970"
"In Search of Beethoven"
"The Perfect Cappuccino"
"Stock Shock"
"Earth: Nature's Most Amazing Events"
"60 Minutes Presents: Obama: All Access- Barack Obama's Road to the White House"
"Ballerina"



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ANIMAL KINGDOM: It may never be known how many filmgoers skipped this film because of the Disneyish title. The only animals we're concerned with here are of the human variety--ones who carry guns. Australian writer-director David Michod presents one of the coldest versions of a bandit culture in which only the lives of your own family are of any value ... [More]
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2010 Reviews:
"The American" (George Clooney, Irina Bjorklund)
"A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" (Sun Honglei, Xiao Shenyang) ]
"Animal Kingdom" (Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn)
"Temple Grandin" (Claire Danes, Julia Ormond)
"The Disappearance of Alice Creed" (Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan)
"Salt" (Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber)
"Get Low" (Robert Duvall, Cissy Spacek)
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel)
"Inception" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Marian Cotillard)
"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson)
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Noomi Rapace, Michael Nykvist) *
"Knight and Day" (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz)
"Shrek Forever After" (Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz) ]
"Macgruber" (Will Forte, Kristen Wiig) ]
"Robin Hood" (Russel Crowe, Cate Blanchett) ]
"Sherlock Holmes" (Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law)
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time")
"The City of Your Final Destination" (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally)
"Harry Brown" (Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer)
"Repo Men" (Jude Law, Forest Whitaker)
"Green Zone" (Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear)
"Alice In Wonderland" (Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska) [3/5]
"The Book of Eli" (Denzell Washington, Gary Oldman)

2009 Reviews:
"Avatar" (Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana) ]
"It's Complicated" (Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin) A comedy
"Invictus" (Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman)
"Up In the Air" (George Clooney, Vera Farmiga) A comedy
"Crazy Heart" (Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal) ]
"Brothers" (Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal)
"The Lovely Bones" (Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg)
"Whatever Works" (Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood)
"Precious: : Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique)
"2012" (John Cusack, Amanda Peet)
"The Road" (Viggo Mortensen, Kodi McPhee)
"Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans" (Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes)
"An Education" (Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard)
"The Messenger" (Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster)
"Pirate Radio" (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge) A comedy
"Jennifer's Body" (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried)
"The Fourth Kind" (Milla Jovovich, Will Patton)
"Michael Jackson's This Is It" (Michael Jackson)
"Turning Green" (James Gallery, Timothy Hutton)
"The Damned United" (Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall)
"Where the Wild Things Are" (James Gandolfini, Max Records)
"Buddenbrooks" (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jessica Schwarz)
"Surrogates" (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell)
"A Serious Man" (Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick)
"Bright Star" (Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw)
"The Informant!" (Matt Damon, Scott Bakula)
"WhiteOut" (Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt)
"Inglorious Basterds" (Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent)
"District 9" (Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood)
"The Time Traveler's Wife" (Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams)
"Shrink" (Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows)
"(500) Days of Summer" (Zooey Dschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson)
"Off Jackson Avenue" (John-Luke Montias, Jessica Pimentel)
"Public Enemies" (Johnny Depp, Marion Clotilard)
"The Hurt Locker" (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie)
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox)
"Moon" (Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey)
"The Taking of Pelham 123" (Denzel Washington, John Travolta)
Land of the Lost (Will Ferrell, Anna Friel)

Downloading Nancy (Maria Bello, Jason Patric)

Up (Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai)

Drag Me To Hell (Alison Lohman, Justin Long)
Terminator Salvation (Christian Bale, Sam Worthington)
Angels & Demons (Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer)
"Star Trek" (Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine)
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber)
State of Play (Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck)
"Bruno" (Sasha Baron Cohen) A comedy
"Fighting" (Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard)
"Fast & Furious" (Vin Diesel, Paul Walker)
"Skills Like This" (Spencer Berger, Kerry Knuppe)
"Knowing" (Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne)
"Duplicity" (Julia Roberts, Clive Owen)
"Watchmen" (Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman)
"An American Affair" (Gretchen Mol, Cameron Bright)
"The Boys Are Back" (Clive Owen, George McAnulty)
"He's Just Not That Into You" (Ginnifer Goodwin, Ben Affleck)
"Donkey Punch" (Sian Brecklin, Robert Boulter)
"Inkheart" (Brendan Fraser, Eliza Hope Bennett)
"Taken" (Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace)
"Adam Resurrected" (Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe)

"Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia"


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Best to date
(2010)
"The Girl Who Played With Fire"
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
"Animal Kingdom"
(It's not what it sounds like)
"Inception"
"The Secret in Their Eyes"

Imagination award
(2009)
"Avatar"

Oscar Nominations
(2009)
for the Academy Awards, 3/7/10

Best of the Year
(2009)
"The Hurt Locker"
Up
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Jerichow

Indies of Special Note
(2009)
"Sin Nombre"
"Off Jackson Avenue"
"Precious"

Surprise Hits
(2009)
"District 9"
"The Hurt Locker"
"The Proposal"
"The Other Side"

Best Screenplays
(2009)
"Sin Nombre"

Best in Animation
(2009)
Up
Coraline

Award Buzz
(2009)
"The Hurt Locker"
(Best Actor, Jeremy Renner)

Best Musical
(2009)
This Is It

Most Overrated
(2009)
"Up In the Air"
"Nine"
"Creation"
"A Single Man"

Top Grossers, Summer 2009
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (Paramount) / $399.6
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) / $295.1
"Up" (Disney) / $289.9
"The Hangover"(Warner Bros.) / $270.7
"Star Trek" (Paramount) / $256.8
(Box Office Mojo, 9/4/2009)
Worst
(2009)
Land of the Lost
Lost in a haze of satiric unfunniness. Bruno
Ahem, Mr. Cohen, you're pushing it. Jennifer's Body
Oh, so badly written A Single Man
Singularly overrated. Creation
Not only another terrible biopic but one of the worst of the epoch)

Best CGI Effects
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

DVDs You've Got To Have
(2009)
No Country For Old Men
Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains" [DOC]
Johnny Got His Gun



"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has outgrossed "The Incredibles" and "The Passion of the Christ" in worldwide earnings (6/19/08) and "Iron Man" has outswung "King Kong." Crashing over both of them is "Death Race." Want to see the current line up of all-time boxoffice hits and see which is the most successful Harry Potter and what movie tops them all?
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Worthy of note:
Read My Lips
(French crime film noir with unexpected twists)
Talk To Her
Nominated, Best Original Screenplay
Edge of Madness
Superb story and storytelling, avail on DVD


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