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Video Review: Grown Ups
David Bruce, Webmaster
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 Knight and Day
Lazy Fun
Jeff Walls
Sometimes a "spoiler alert" warning at the beginning of the trailer
would be helpful. In this case, it's not that the trailer gives too
much away. It's simply that the trailer is just too much darn fun and
the movie can't quite live up to it.
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 We invite
you to join our own Fritz Nosferatu in a journey to survey many of the great films of the
silent era. Over the coming weeks we will discuss The Phantom of the Opera, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cat and the Canary, Metropolis, The Show, The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, and, perhaps, a few others.
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Metropolis:
The Principle of Social Relevance
The future is big business. Earnings forecasts drive
Wall Street, life goals focus retirement planning and the weather
reports determine tomorrow's activities. Prodigious professional prognosticators produce plentiful profits. We are sometimes so obsessed with the future (or imprisoned in the past) that we forget that we have today. Metropolis (1927) is one of the better known silent films. Unlike many films which project the future though a rosy-tinted lenses, Metropolis presents a more dystopian view. Much
like our world today, director Fritz Lang's vision is a world filled
with both grandeur and grotesquery, with plenty and poverty.
Metropolisbenefits from its futuristic setting. The style of the film has been
described as everything from Expressionistic to Art Deco to Modernistic. Its use of miniatures and panning shots show the grand scale of this cinematic Tower of Babel. More than eighty years after its release, the movie still has relevance.
On February 12, 2010, at the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast, a new restoration of Metropolis was shown, complete with some recently discovered footage. This new version will also be released in DVD format this fall. The continued interest is, I believe, because of the visionary quality of Lang's production...
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Humiliation or Humility?
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New on DVD & Blu-ray
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 Cloudy With a Chance of Meat Balls
3D? Seriously. Watch Out!
Jacob Sahms
Now on Blu-ray. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs returns
with a 3D version that will delight fans with its flying objects, and a
2D Blu-ray version for everyone's high def experience.
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