Jarhead
Jarhead on Imdb4 November 2005 (USA)
Biography | Drama | War
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Scott MacDonald
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Peter Sarsgaard
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Jamie Foxx
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Lo Ming
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Movie Review: Away We Go
added by newsBotStarring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph
Director: Sam Mendes
Release Date: June 5, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 98 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
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Sam Mendes is, for me, one of the most interesting directors putting out films right now. He’s definitely had his misses. Jarhead was uneven and overly trite in it’s portrayal of affected American soldiers in Iraq, The Road to Perdition was a solid, good film, but vastly overrated. But he, at the very least, has a competence behind the camera that makes any of his films interesting to watch. Away We Go, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, is no different. It’s effectively charming, funny, and a little sappy, but falls just short of the mark.
The film begins with an extremely intimate scene between our protagonist couple, pregnant Verona (Maya Rudolph), and Burt (John Krazinski). Two thirty-somethings confused at their inability
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Movie Review: Away We Go
added by newsBotStarring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph
Director: Sam Mendes
Release Date: June 5, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 98 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
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Sam Mendes is, for me, one of the most interesting directors putting out films right now. He’s definitely had his misses. Jarhead was uneven and overly trite in it’s portrayal of affected American soldiers in Iraq, The Road to Perdition was a solid, good film, but vastly overrated. But he, at the very least, has a competence behind the camera that makes any of his films interesting to watch. Away We Go, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, is no different. It’s effectively charming, funny, and a little sappy, but falls just short of the mark.
The film begins with an extremely intimate scene between our protagonist couple, pregnant Verona (Maya Rudolph), and Burt (John Krazinski). Two thirty-somethings confused at their inability
Read the full article on themovie-fanatic.com -
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 2 Signed ‘The Hurt Locker’ Posters With Star Jeremy Renner
added by newsBotChicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 2 signed “The Hurt Locker” posters by star Jeremy Renner and a few other cast members and filmmakers! “The Hurt Locker” stars Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly and Christian Camargo.
“The Hurt Locker,” which opens on July 10, 2009 in Chicago, is the winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival Signis Grand Prize. The film will be showing at AMC River East and Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Chicago as well as CineArts in Evanston, Ill.
To win your “The Hurt Locker” signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is tell us your danger story in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Hurt Locker” with Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Renner.
adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Read the full article on hollywoodchicago.comCategory: Jarhead, Knowing, Lost, Anthony Mackie, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly
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