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This page is dedicated to assorted ramblings about film. The pieces may or may not actually review the films that they discuss. They are in no way meant to recommend that you see the film, nor am I going to try to steer you away from something that you really want to see. The films [...]

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Stranger Than Fiction
Written by Zach Helm and Directed by Marc Forster
Starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Derek Wyman sits in his car writing this review on a legal pad by the light of the one functioning street lamp in the parking lot of the movie theater. He is trying to get the breadth [...]

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Directed by Michel Gondry
Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet

First things first, the movie was wonderful, but the ending broke the parable.
If it had ended with the two of them in the car and without all the Kirsten Dunst mailing out the letters crap, it would have held together much [...]

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Bedazzled (2000)
Directed by Harold Ramis
Starring Brendan Frasier and Elizabeth Hurley

Admittingly, I went into this movie with reservations. The original 1968 version, starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, is among my favorite films.
The first thing that struck me, remains the most important aspect of the film: Elizabeth Hurley is hot, simple as that. If you [...]

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Fight Club
Written by Jim Uhls and Directed by David Fincher
Starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt

There is an enormous amount of wealth in the world. But, 99% of the wealth is held by no more than two or three percent of the population. If you looked closely at the financial worth of the remaining 97% of [...]

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For Love of the Game
Directed by Sam Raimi
Starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston

American cinema, as well as literature, theater and verse have a daunting obstacle to overcome. We have no history; we have no mythology to call our own. Our religion is borrowed and our language the same. Our families all began somewhere else, someplace [...]

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The Sixth Sense
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment

There are rules for these things. The pieces must fit the puzzle. So many “thrillers” are all end-pieces with nothing to hold the jigsaw together. The Sixth Sense follows the rules, somewhere between childlike obedience and fanatical reverence and still manages [...]

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