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BRETT MICHEL

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The Illusionist

A not so magical story
What is it about magicians that they’re able to conjure the most stunningly attractive women, only to have them disappear? Watch the trailer for The Illusionist   (Quicktime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 20, 2007

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Casa De Areia | House of Sand

A stunning widescreen epic
Beginning in 1910 and spanning nearly 60 years, Andrucha Waddington’s widescreen epic stuns with arid allure from the very first frames. Watch the trailer for House of Sand  (Quicktime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  August 17, 2006

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Below the surface

Checking WTC for conspiracies
It’s another hot day in Boston, and Paramount has taken over the 10th floor of the Ritz Carlton to host a press junket for Oliver Stone’s sunny take on 9/11, World Trade Center . Feel-good movie of the summer: Oliver Stone: from the Hollywood crackpot of JFK to the Republican sellout of World Trade Center. By Peter Keough Off-Center: Oliver Stone's trite take on 9/11. By Peter Keough
By BRETT MICHEL  |  August 09, 2006

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Back from rehab

Clerks II is just another sequel
Even if his writing is more focused than it’s been in his last few outings, Smith’s return to the “counter-culture” remains, like most sequels, an imitation and a knockoff. Watch the trailer for Clerks II (QuickTime) Saint Smith: Getting laid and laying back. By Brett Michel
By BRETT MICHEL  |  July 21, 2006

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Saint Smith

Getting laid and laying back
Indie-film icon Kevin Smith is, above all else, a religious man. WFNX's Keith Dakin interviews Kevin Smith (mp3) Back from rehab: Clerks II is just another sequel.   By Brett Michel
By BRETT MICHEL  |  July 25, 2006

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The Hidden Blade

It's a good thing to have
Seventy-four-year-old Yoji Yamada has spent years churning out slapstick comedies (48 Tora-san films), but he was unknown stateside until two years ago, when his tender drama The Twilight Samurai quietly cut through the Hollywood hyperbole of The Last Samurai .
By BRETT MICHEL  |  July 12, 2006

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Strangers With Candy

A lot of famous people like it; we're not sure why
Upon reading the cast of supporting players in this prequel to the short-lived Comedy Central series starring Amy Sedaris (David’s sister) as recovering crack whore Jerri Blank, I couldn’t help but get excited. Watch the trailer for Strangers With Candy (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  July 05, 2006

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Clearly the first half of a five-hour movie
A Disney “franchise” that began as an Oscar-nominated showcase for Johnny Depp seems to have walked the plank, but has it jumped the shark? Watch the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 20, 2007

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Lady Vengeance

Park's unsettling vision
In the final installment of his “vengeance” trilogy, Park Chan-wook provokes you to stare even deeper into the abyss.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  June 07, 2006

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Banlieue 13 / District B13

Plot is secondary to thrilling stunts
Cinematographer-turned-director Pierre Morel’s breezy assemblage of acrobatics eschews the former’s dark climes in favor of a brightly lit Parisian ghetto, the better to see the amazing action.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 31, 2006

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The Lost City

Awful
In 1990, Sydney Pollack refashioned Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca , setting the action during a period of political upheaval in Havana , with Robert Redford doing little to erase memories of Humphrey Bogart.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 10, 2006

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Mission implausible

Mission: Impossible III will self-destruct in 7500 seconds
Like the adrenaline shot that invigorates one of his characters, television wunderkind J.J. Abrams’s stab at the billion-dollar Tom Cruise spy franchise briefly gets your heart pounding, only to ultimately fail at bringing much-needed life to the latest reworking of Bruce Geller’s TV relic.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 05, 2006

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Silent Hill

Video game adaptation won't satisfy fans or newcomers
The popular psychological horror video-game series set within three concurrent dimensions of a singular haunted town is reverently re-created by director Christophe Gans, but does it work beyond homage?
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 26, 2006

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Akeelah and the Bee

Strong performances lift underdog story
How do you spell fortuity? Ask writer/director Doug Atchison.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 25, 2006

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EXTRAS! EXTRAS!

The 25 Greatest DVD Special Features of All Time
As much as I lament the continuing decline of attendance at the cineplex, it’s also easy to understand.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 25, 2006

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Streep daze

The actress gets toasted (and roasted) and the Coolidge
Hollywood came to Boston last week.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 14, 2006

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Lucky Number Slevin

Just another Pulp Fiction wannabe
“It all starts with a horse,” begins wheelchair-bound Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis), describing a “Kansas City shuffle” — hipster slang for elaborate misdirection, this film’s MO.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 05, 2006

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Te Doy Mis Ojos | Take My Eyes

Seeing violence
Born as much from her 2000 20-minute short “Amores que matan|Loves That Kill” as from her love for the films of Ken Loach, director and co-writer Icíar Bollaín’s acute, (almost) thoughtful look at domestic abuse details the struggles of housewife Pilar and her time-bomb husband, Antonio.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 29, 2006

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Battlestar anime

Kurosawa’s classic becomes IFC’s Samurai 7 , plus more, but not better, Henry Rollins
Fans of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic The Seven Samurai , which spawned John Sturges’s 1960 The Magnificent Seven , are going to be surprised at what they find in Samurai 7 .
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 30, 2006

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Thank You For Smoking

Satire gets some things right, begs for a point of view
As Nick Naylor, chief lobbyist for Big Tobacco, Aaron Eckhart tempers his gleefully loathsome persona from Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men with a seductively serpentine charm and wit.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 22, 2006
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