Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Dec 11, 2011, 6:57 pm
Now Available to Own        Photo Slideshow    tweetmeme_source = 'filmintuition'; It wasn’t until the theatrical release of The Sound of Music that West Side Story filmmaker (and Citizen Kane editor) Robert Wise asked audiences how to “solve a problem ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Dec 4, 2011, 6:55 pm
Now Available to Own    tweetmeme_source = 'filmintuition'; Original 2006 Theatrical Title: Shanghai Red As the old saying goes, “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” and this becomes a main theme that serves writer/director Oscar Luis Costo ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Dec 1, 2011, 3:58 pm
Now Available to Own      Those who’ve had many small screen encounters with police procedurals of the British kind might be quick to assume that Luther series creator Neil Cross drew inspiration from similar sociological and psychologically fixated programs such as Murphy’...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Nov 7, 2011, 2:21 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow   As our new Pooh series narrator John Cleese informs us, Christopher Robin not only possesses a very active imagination but he also has an uncanny ability to collect things, including the charming and eccentric cast of stuffed animal ch...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Nov 3, 2011, 7:06 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow    Oscar nominated French filmmaker Julien Magnat (student short: The All-New Adventures of Chastity Blade) makes his ambitious if ultimately awkward English language feature debut with this clunky thriller that destroys the promise of i...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Nov 3, 2011, 6:55 pm
... many competing storylines. Inspired by the titular novel by Tides scribe ... to-face, tale-to-tale, and sword-to-sword with an old-flame turned crafty con-woman Angelica ... that tests his alliances between love and greed as well as life ... games including Prince of Persia and The So...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Nov 3, 2011, 6:36 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow   Intended as a comedic horror allegory of the state of irrational paranoia as well as genuine fear surrounding the Swine Flu epidemic that terrified the globe a few years back – writer/director Nicolas Goldbart’s Argentine import P...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 18, 2011, 2:45 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow    Though he describes his dad as “more of a drunk who did interesting things,” as we discover in writer/director Dan Rush’s indie feature Everything Must Go, salesman Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell) might just as well have been talking ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 18, 2011, 2:33 pm
Now Available to Own    Simba the lion cub isn’t the only one who “just can’t wait to be king” in Walt Disney animation’s Hamlet inspired epic of lion-sized family dysfunction, tragedy of Greek proportions and biblical complexity (oh my!) as shortly into the film, Simba’...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 18, 2011, 2:18 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow    Instead of turning water into wine, the 1959 production of Lew Wallace’s 1880 epic Christian novel turned MGM’s impending financial ruin of bankruptcy into box office gold with the most lucrative not to mention award-winning Hollywood e...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 12, 2011, 5:26 pm
Now Available   Visit the Website When she was four years old, Krystyn Lambert asked her mom if she was from another planet. She knew she wasn’t like everyone else but once she found her people and indulged her passion with endless practice, patience and perfectionism, Lambert enco...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 11, 2011, 7:29 pm
... again in Scream, Wes Craven uses celluloid as though it were an ... latest and second greatest installment, sending the first of several curveballs right out ... instead of opting to completely reinvent the wheel while simultaneously never copying ... diabolically surprising effect. ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Oct 11, 2011, 6:37 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow   An imported BBC work of sudsy miniseries sophistication, The Hour plays like a Mad Men spinoff as penned by mile-a-minute screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and go-to English lit adapter Andrew Davies. Destined to attract devotees of Don...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 28, 2011, 4:03 pm
Now Available to Own    Related Review:Sons of Anarchy -- Season Two With regard to plot alone, the masterfully multilayered, richly complex and emotionally charged third installment of FX’s Shakespeare’s-Hamlet-on-Bikes gritty crime saga Sons of Anarchy is number one with a bul...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 28, 2011, 3:31 pm
Now Available to Own    Related Review:Criterion Collection: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa   A watershed production in the career of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, 1963’s High and Low utilized American postmodern film noir docudrama techniques evidenced in Sweet Smell of S...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 28, 2011, 3:04 pm
... s overly-reliant on hero’s journey motifs, Rio helps differentiate itself from usual fare and avoid parroting previous hits like Disney’s affable Beverly Hills Chihuahua, by going against what’s expected with the decision to make Anne Hathaway’s beautiful Brazilian bird the wiser, exper...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 28, 2011, 2:44 pm
Now Available to Own      Courier Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers) may boast an impressive education, a penchant for perfectionism and a hunger for hard work so strong that he’s willing to offer firms the chance to test drive his skills for free as a volunteer just to get his foot i...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 28, 2011, 2:18 pm
Now Available to Own    On the surface, Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild might seem like an odd choice for the filmmaker’s inaugural Criterion Collection release. Yet upon closer inspection, Demme’s unsung and often overlooked Wild card work of ‘80s cinematic iconoclasm of the count...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 23, 2011, 12:08 pm
Now Available to Own    Photo Slideshow   Fans of Robin Hood, Rob Roy, The Three Musketeers, Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel and Dr. Syn are sure to flock to this Errol Flynn style swashbuckling throwback to the golden age of escapist tinsletown fare of 1940s picture shows.
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Sep 23, 2011, 11:42 am
Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Prospero’s past is prologue for plot and point-of-view as he becomes a she in visionary filmmaker Julie Taymor’s feminist, female-centric Tempest. As Prospera, Helen Mirren cuts right to the core of the banished Italian single moth...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 21, 2011, 5:18 pm
Now Available to Own  AKA: Laundry Warrior “This is the story of a Sad Flute, a laughin’ baby and a weepin’ sword.” What could’ve been one of the tongue-twisters that Geoffrey Rush told Colin Firth to say while setting out to correct The King’s Speech in the Oscar winning Best Pi...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 21, 2011, 4:40 pm
Now Available to Own Like many of us, screenwriter Todd Farmer and his co-writer/director Patrick Lussier wished that the newest releases being served up by the studio system had more in common with the kind of movies Hollywood used to make. But after screening just five minutes ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 21, 2011, 2:56 pm
Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Mastering every single genre just wasn’t enough for master writer/director Billy Wilder; he wanted to master every one of ‘em in a single picture. And that is exactly what he did throughout his staggeringly successful career, pushing genre c...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 8, 2011, 3:44 pm
Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Before I discovered that Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra’s 2011 international existential identity thriller Unknown was based upon the 2003 French-language novel Hors de Moi or Out of My Head by Didier van Cauwelaert, I assumed it was a f...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 5, 2011, 3:57 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow Alternate Title: Kawaita hana Instead of dysfunctional suburban American parents tearing James Dean's Rebel apart in Nicholas Ray’s 1955 classic, the existential ennui of life during (Cold) wartime ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jul 1, 2011, 4:20 pm
Now Available to Own  Growing up in Minnesota, I came to love theater at a young age whether it was being cast as part of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz since I towered over all the boys or trying to secure as many musical solos as possible in my junior high production of Lit...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 30, 2011, 11:37 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Creatively uninspired, utterly unlikable, and unbelievably unfunny, Hall Pass may be the weakest link in the Farrelly Brothers directorial filmography but as it turns out it could’ve been worse. ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 29, 2011, 10:05 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own   Even though he managed to craft an Oscar nominated Best Picture contender right out of the gate, the 1965 release of A Thousand Clowns marked the first and only feature motion picture helmed by Broadway director...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 28, 2011, 9:29 pm
Now Available to Own  Related Review:White Collar: The Complete First Season The status of picture perfect pretty boy thief Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) has changed from that of illusive conman the FBI’s White Collar Crimes Division most wanted to arrest to the New York City branch’...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 27, 2011, 10:25 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Related Reviews:Burn Notice: Season Two Burn Notice: Season Three When it began, the “burn notice” that wrongfully blacklisted Uncle Sam Secret Agent Man Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) formed the basis of cre...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 25, 2011, 7:10 pm
Now Available to Own Original Title: No Ordinary Trifle When you’re friends with the TV chef that heats his Michelin star recipes over the flames of Hell’s Kitchen Nightmares – with a sautéed F-Word starter on the side – it’s safe to say you’ve probably had your fair share...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 25, 2011, 6:58 pm
Coming Soon  As natural as they are in their purest form, hurricanes – like earthquakes and tsunamis -- lead to disaster. However, as Harry Shearer informs us in The Big Uneasy, there was absolutely nothing natural about the disastrous way that Hurricane Katrina nearly drowned the en...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 15, 2011, 8:57 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own From the violent visuals of external warfare captured by the lens of cinematographer Robert Richardson to the internal battle raging in a young soldier’s heart and mind that Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) recounts in l...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 14, 2011, 4:01 pm
Now Available to Own After Passion Play’s cowardly hero Nate (Mickey Rourke) manages to walk away from the one-way drive he was taken on for shagging the devil’s wife, the ex smack-addicted trumpeter figuratively pimps out a feather-winged angel (Megan Fox) without her consent, mak...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 14, 2011, 3:32 pm
Now Available to Own  Since “it takes one to know one,” Lemonade Mouth author Mark Peter Hughes was wise to write about what he knows in his tale of five high school outsiders who bond in detention before starting a band. Namely, given the number of times that the 2007 youn...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 9, 2011, 1:05 pm
Now Available to Own  Mr. Capulet’s Garden Gnomes may be Red,While Neighbor Mrs. Montague’s are Blue.But even when Shakespeare’s words are spoken by a Pink Flamingo,The Bard’s message of Love and Acceptance still rings true. In Gnomeo & Juliet, the ongoing feud between rival ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 9, 2011, 12:33 pm
Now Available to Own  From surprising twists and random thoughts to character names and promising starts, writers worth their salt covet and collect creativity -- hoarding future plots in the process. Preserving their ideas in a three-ring binder or on scraps of paper in a big box, writers d...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 6, 2011, 10:55 pm
Now Available to Own  Whether she’s wearing a see-through dress in a college charity fashion show or a couture wedding dress to marry her college sweetheart, Catherine Middleton isn’t the type of girl anyone would call common. Likewise, considering the fact that her beau is Pri...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 3, 2011, 4:17 pm
Now Available Photo Slideshow Read Along Since standing them up by staying away from the box office in droves hasn’t stopped the studios from believing that if they build it, we will come, the next time Hollywood asks us to go to the movies we’ll have no choice but to tell them that w...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - Jun 3, 2011, 3:57 pm
Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow Revisit the Original The best mechanics can track down, target and eliminate the toughest problem with nary a trace, using such clean precision that if you hadn’t hired them to do the job then you never would’ve known they’d been there i...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 27, 2011, 9:24 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Similar to the way that accidentally recording over the second of three titles on a VHS tape can erase the end of the first film and the beginning of the third so an action flick transforms into a c...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 27, 2011, 9:04 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  AKA: L'affaire Farewell The practice of invoking artistic license is as accepted as it is expected in movies loosely based on true events whether it's with the addition of an invented love story to changes the genre ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 27, 2011, 7:49 pm
Now Available to Own  Related Release: Since looks can always be deceiving, we’re frequently reminded to never judge a book by its cover or take something at face value without first taking it with a grain of salt. Yet in addition to possessing a small kernel of truth, another rea...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 27, 2011, 7:17 pm
Pre-Order the Film Photo Slideshow  As an American in Paris with delusions of nostalgic grandeur, Owen Wilson goes out walking after midnight, out in the moonlight, finding the Lost Generation instead of his hotel room in writer/director Woody Allen’s latest cinematic soufflé. &#...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 16, 2011, 8:15 pm
Now Available to Own  Related Review: American Dad! Volume 5 Photo Slideshow When it comes to Fox’s most recent American Dad! release, don’t let the number “6” on the box fool you to the real numbers this three-disc set contains as Dad Volume 6 boasts all eighteen episodes o...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 16, 2011, 7:39 pm
Now Available to Own Related Review:Gulliver's Travels (1939)   Contrary to popular opinion, what went wrong with the most recent reimagining of humorous satirist Jonathan Swift’s fantastical eighteenth century tome Gulliver’s Travels had nothing to do with the decision to cast J...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 15, 2011, 1:13 am
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow  Related Review:  Upstairs, Downstairs: 40th Anniversary Edition (Complete Series) AKA: Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 6; Upstairs, Downstairs: Christmas Special In a daring move, thirty-five years ...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 14, 2011, 11:32 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own  Photo Slideshow Lars Lindstrom is lonely. Having lost his mother during his birth, and inherited his emotionally devastated father’s love of quiet solitude, the now twenty-seven year old Lars (Oscar nominee Ryan...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 14, 2011, 7:03 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own When the legendary “Nine Old Men” that had been at the House of Mouse from the very beginning alongside Walt Disney began to retire in the midst of the studio’s creative slump of the 1970s, the young artists that...
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Jen J. posted an article on Film Intuition Review Database - May 6, 2011, 6:31 pm
addthis_pub = 'littlemissfrogger'; Now Available to Own Even though the townies and tourists that occupy Mystic’s small seaside Connecticut community understand that Leona will never reveal just what it is that she imports from overseas to season her pizzas to perfection,...
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