Monthly Archives: December 2010

Erin Brockovich (2000)

December 30, 2010 – 10:59 am

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

December 24, 2010 – 2:15 pm

Directed by Gore Verbinski, After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the the land of the dead, they must face their foes, Davy Jones and Lord Cutler Beckett. Beckett, now with control of Jones’ heart, forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Now, Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, to gathering. The Pirate Lords want to release the goddess Calypso, Davy Jones’s damned lover, from the trap they sent her to out of fear, in which the Pirate Lords must combine the 9 pieces that bound her by ritual to undo it and release her in hopes that she will help them fight.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

December 24, 2010 – 2:09 pm

Directed by Gore Verbinski, Once again we’re plunged into the world of sword fights and “savvy” pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, who captains the flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship, with a crew from hell. Facing the “locker” Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones but to save himself he must get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. If that’s not complicated enough, Will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang, unless will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack’s compass, Will is forced to join another crazy adventure with Jack.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

December 16, 2010 – 2:22 pm

Directed by Gore Verbinski, In the film’s main story, Captain Norrington was being promoted to Commodore in the British Royal Navy, and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) was Port Royal blacksmith’s apprentice and expert swordsman, in love with spunky 20 year-old Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). Swashbuckling, eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) arrived in Port Royal, Jamaica, just as his dinghy sank at the dock in the film’s clever entrance scene. He arrived just in time to save Elizabeth who had fainted and fallen into the ocean after the promotion ceremony. Sparrow was captured and locked up in jail, ready to be hanged by Elizabeth’s pompous fiancee Commodore, Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor’s daughter, from Jack’s former pirate allies, who are now undead.

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Psycho (1960)

December 14, 2010 – 9:18 am

Director by Alfred Hitchcock’s, powerful, complex psychological thriller is the “mother” of all modern horror suspense films – it single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen ‘slashers’ with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings, The nightmarish, disturbing film’s themes of corruptibility, confused identities, voyeurism, human vulnerabilities and victimization, the deadly effects of money, Oedipal murder, and dark past histories are realistically revealed. Like many of Hitchcock’s films, Psycho is so very layered and complex that multiple viewings are necessary to capture all of its subtlety.

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Casablanca (1942)

December 9, 2010 – 10:26 pm

Directed by Michael Curtiz, during World War II, Casablanca, Morocco is a waiting point for throngs of desperate refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Exit visas, which are necessary to leave the country, are at a premium, so when two German couriers carrying letters of transit signed by General DeGaulle are murdered and the letters stolen, German Major Strasser and Louis Renault, the prefecture of police, are eager to find the documents. Strasser is particularly concerned that the letters not be sold to Victor Lazlo, the well-known Czech resistance leader, who is rumored to be on his way to Casablanca. That night, Renault and Strasser search for the killer at Rick’s Café Americain, a popular nightclub run by the mysterious American ex-patriot Richard Blaine.

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Chloe (2009)

December 6, 2010 – 9:30 am

An erotic, psychological thriller from director Atom Egoyan  In this  recent film, the two stars were Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore, portraying an upper-class married couple — gynecologist Catherine and music professor David Stewart. The erotic charge in the film came when the suspicious, emotionally-distant and untrusting wife paranoically believed that her preoccupied, flirtatious husband was cheating on her, and hired a voluptuous blonde escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), after a chance meeting in a hotel washroom, to test his faithfulness (“I think my husband would like you…I want to find out, see what he does if you present yourself to him”), and ultimately to trap him into an affair.  Chloe would verbally report back to Catherine with lurid accounts of tempting seduction, Catherine showered and daydreamed about the tales of sexual encounters, and was soon engaged in provocative lesbian love-making with Chloe.

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Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

December 1, 2010 – 3:16 pm

Director Roman Polanski’s first American feature film and his second, scary horror film (following his first disturbing film in English titled (Repulsion 1965) – was about a young newlywed couple who moved into a large, rambling old apartment building in Central Park West, where the title character Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) experienced a nightmarish dream of making love to a Beast. Becoming paranoid and hysterical, she believed herself impregnated so that her baby could be used by an evil cult in their rituals. The creepy film ended with the devil’s flesh-and-blood baby being cared for by the mother! The film was one of the first with the theme of Satanism and the occult, before the onslaught of films such as The Exorcist (1973). Its most memorable sequences were the surrealistic dream sequence during which Rosemary was impregnated by Satan (husband Guy’s appearance changed into a grotesque beast-like figure resembling the Devil, with yellowish eyes and clawed, scaly hands), and the final scene in which she discovered her Anti-Christ child in a black-draped crib.

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Bound (1996)

December 1, 2010 – 2:59 pm

The Wachowski brothers’ debut film was this clever thriller and stylishly sexy neo-noir film. It starred Gina Gershon as a butch lesbian and ex-con plumber named Corky who experienced a titillating, Sapphic sexual liaison with a breathy Chicago mobster’s bisexual girlfriend named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), while renovating the next-door apartment – they both plotted to abscond $2 million from Violet’s boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) while engaging in steamy girl-on-girl scenes. In a sofa seduction scene with her bulging cleavage showing, black lingerie-wearing Violet asked: “Do I make you nervous, Corky?” and then admitted boldly: “I’m trying to seduce you” as she had Corky touch the tattoo on her breast. She then moistened Corky’s finger with her mouth and placed it tantalizingly between her legs, as she confessed and proved her true feelings. The first mainstream film with two female leads playing lesbians.

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Kinsey (2004)

December 1, 2010 – 2:34 pm

This serious and engrossing biopic was about controversial, Midwestern human sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) who laid the groundwork for the coming sexual revolution, with its tagline: “Let’s talk about sex”. It stirred up continuing protest about the impact of his pioneering work, interviews and liberal publications on morality and behavior. Kinsey startled the world with the publication of his Kinsey Report (aka Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948 and its follow-up Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). It illustrated how Kinsey’s own wife Clara McMillen (Oscar-nominated Laura Linney) had painful sexual problems with her inexperienced husband during their honeymoon, and then later was engaged in an extra-marital affair with her husband’s bi-sexual assistant Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard) – who also had a homosexual encounter with Kinsey and appeared in a full-frontal scene; and that a young Kinsey was punished with a confining genital strap to prevent him from masturbating by his minister father (John Lithgow).

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The Da Vinci Code (2006)

December 1, 2010 – 2:16 pm

Director Ron Howard’s much-anticipated, big-screen religious conspiracy thriller with the tagline “Seek the Truth” was faithfully based upon Dan Brown’s best-selling fictional book. It told about an investigation by symbologist and Harvard professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and French police cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) after the discovery of the murder of the Louvre Museum’s elderly curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle). The man’s naked body was found with symbols and an enigmatic encrypted code written in blood, a scrambled numerical sequence, and a revealing pose. [He was murdered by self-flagellating albino monk Silas (Paul Bettany) in the employ of devious Bishop Aringarosa (Alfred Molina).] This information led the wrongly-accused murder suspect Langdon and Sophie through a byzantine trail of clues — to a millenarian secret sect called The Priory of Sion (with heretical theories about the marriage of a mortal Jesus Christ with Mary Magdalene and fathering a child – the real Holy Grail!).

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Taking Woodstock (2009)

December 1, 2010 – 2:03 pm

“3 Days of Love and Peace” (the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival) at Max Yasgur’s (Eugene Levy) rural 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, NY was the Catskills setting for the historically-legendary rock concert in the summer of 1969, but the locale of most of director Ang Lee’s off-center, bland and unmoving retrospective/biopic film was at the nearby unincorporated hamlet of White Lake, where the run-down El Monaco “Resort” Motel was situated – headquarters for the concert staff. The backstory centered around the experiences of closeted gay Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin) – adapted from Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir, Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life the R-rated film’s display of graphic full-frontal nudity (without sexual connotations) came from an itinerant avant-garde troupe of new-agey, hippie-thespians named the Earthlight Players who had rented the El Monaco’s barn for the summer.

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