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Movies on December 19, 2009
The group of AccessPinoy bloggers had a blast last nite! We saw the new James Cameron movie “Avatar” and sobrang natulala kaming lahat. Maganda and breath-taking ang mga sceneries sa Pandora (the world populated by the N’avi people), na siyang [...]
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Movies on December 12, 2009
AccessPinoy’s been tracking the tremendous positive reviews coming out from critics concerning the release of James Cameron’s latest cinematic venture – “Avatar” – next week. The 20th Century Fox release had its world premiere in London the other day. Immediately [...]
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Movies on July 23, 2009
Abby (Katherine Heigl) is a successful, hardworking television producer, but she is a mere intern at romance. In order to bolster the station’s slipping ratings Abby’s boss hires Mike (Gerard Butler) for his show “The Ugly Truth.” His coarse, direct [...]
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Movies on July 13, 2009
The climactic scene in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” takes place in one of those underground caverns with a lake and an ominous gondola as the means of transportation, popularized by “The Phantom of the Opera.” At first I [...]
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Movies on June 10, 2009
That semi-classic 1974 subway heist thriller starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw — as opposed to the inferior 1998 TV movie with Edward James Olmos and Vincent D’Onofrio — has been given a smartly streamlined overhaul while still remaining faithful [...]
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Movies on June 4, 2009
Rowdy, trippy and surprisingly raunchy, “Land of the Lost” pushes sci-fi/comedy to the edge of PG-13 decorum. It’s based on a kitschy 1970s live action children’s series created by Sid and Marty Krofft (creators of “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Lidsville”). The [...]
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Movies on May 29, 2009
You’d think that WALL-E would be a tough act to follow – but here comes Pixar with Up, a movie that matches that Oscar-winner for heart, laughs and pure excitement.
And that’s not to mention the visual splendor – indeed, the [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
– You, with scripts of badminton drama, kickball glory, and tiddlywinks tragedy: Hurry to Hollywood.
From 2004’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story to this year’s Blades of Glory, comedies of unlikely sports are being churned out. But Balls of Fury, the [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
Fans of Rowan Atkinson can breathe a long sigh of relief – or, more fitting, a long series of angular full-body twitches punctuated by deep guttural snorts – because Mr. Bean’s Holiday is as much a genial oddity as its [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
The Nanny Diaries is the second feature film by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writing-directing team who created the memorable grunge-comic epic American Splendor. The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
Will Ferrell and his middle-aged Frat Pack posse better watch out. A new generation of comedy talent is poised to hit the big time with the release of “Superbad,” in theaters Friday.
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Movies on September 17, 2007
“Rush Hour 3″ stars Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are the new Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, a leering loudmouth and a man of grace and talent hitting the road together for a series of comic misadventures in exotic locales.
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Movies, News on September 17, 2007
An out of this world adventure is coming to the silver screen this weekend. It’s the fantasy film, “Stardust”, starring Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller and Charlie Cox.
“Stardust” is based on a best selling novel that [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
There’s no need to fear … Underdog is here!” That rhyming motto trumpets the live-action remake of the TV cartoon series. The comedic canine is fair game for Disney Studios to put their high gloss on a scruffy pooch with [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum is a bone-crunchingly brilliant finale to the trilogy, and a standard-bearer for the reinvigorated action movie
It’s not often that nearly 2,000 people burst into spontaneous applause at the sight of four men being brutally pulverised on the [...]
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Movies on September 17, 2007
The cinematographer of the upcoming remake of ‘3:10 to Yuma’ doesn’t view the film as a classic Western, even though Russell Crowe and Christian Bale spend much of the running time battling gangsters, greedy landowners and other assorted varmints.
“It [...]
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Celebrities, Movies on September 17, 2007
Atonement, Ian McEwan’s best-selling novel of love thwarted by juvenile fantasy, ranks among the best novel adaptations of recent times.
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Movies on September 16, 2007
Original Cast Recording, “High School Musical 2″ (Disney)
You don’t have to worry about “Breaking Free” from the “Start of Something New” because the “High School Musical 2″ soundtrack will “Get’cha Head in the Game” and, if history serves, “Bop to [...]