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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009)

Mikael Blomkvist is a middle-aged investigative journalist who has 6 months of freedom before a beginning a prison sentence for libel against a Swedish tycoon.  He is hired by an elderly billionaire named Henrik Vanger who inhabits a stark mansion on a remote island and broods about the loss of his beloved niece Harriet.  She … Continue reading

The Glorias : 4 Actors try to step into Gloria Steinem shoes

  Theater/film director Julie Taymor adapted Gloria Steinem’s memoir My Life On The Road to make this ambitious and overly biopic on one of the US’s leading feminists.  Using 4 different actors playing the woman herself (and an appearance by Ms Steinem at the end) the screen was awash with Glorias that Taymor even juxtapositioned … Continue reading

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD

Morgan Spurlock who picked up an Oscar Nomination for his tongue-in-cheek documentary on fast food ‘Supersize Me’, is back on form with his take on the thorny subject of product placement, marketing and advertising in movies.  He naturally takes it one step further by getting this whole movie financed entirely by the subject he is … Continue reading

THE GREEN

The Green that the title refers to is a small Connecticut affluent seaside town where partners Michael and Daniel have escaped too from New York for a different pace of life.  Wannabe novelist Michael is a high school Drama teacher, and Daniel has started his own restaurant and they are laying down roots refurbishing an … Continue reading

THE GREEN HORNET

This damp-squid of a movie desperately trying to be funny failed miserably at being anything like a parody of a Superhero it claimed to be.  Why anyone thought that allowing ‘Superbad’ coarse-humor comic actor Seth Rogan to take on this project of bring this much loved and adapted Radio Serial to the screen and give … Continue reading

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