Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 12/29/06 NOTE: Brand new movies are scarce this week –(you will have to travel to catch one of them) so I am including several holdovers from last week (including a couple with caution signs) to help you decide what to see. NEW-Dreamgirls (R)Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer HudsonDirected by: Bill CondonThe off-screen casting (mainly Afro-Americans including a former Disney cruise ship singer turned … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 12/22/06 The Good Shepard (R)Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Joe Pesci, Robert De NiroDirected by: Robert De NiroThis fictional account of the birth of the CIA is directed by De Niro with a relentless and icy cold sense of paranoia. Damon keeps to this one note and seems miscast as someone who could dramatically change our country (and the world’s) agendas. DeNiro throws everything he always … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 12/15/06 Charlotte’s Web (G)Dakota Fanning, Voices of Julia Roberts, Robert Redford, Oprah Whinfrey, kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, JohnCleese, and Steve Buscemi as Templeton, the rat.Directed by: Gary WinickPerhaps it is because you don’t have close-ups of talking spiders, or pregnant spiders or feasting spiders or spinning spiders, but the book still retains a charm that a movie can’t capture. But having said that, this … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s “Screenings” Deja Vu All Over Again There are very few actors who are identified by their first name. Launching his career as an earnest young doctor from the early 80’s TV hospital drama, “St. Elsewhere,” to a double Oscar winning movie star (2001, Best Actor, “Training Day,” and 1989 Best Supporting Actor, “Glory“), Denzel deserves that name recognition. “Deja Vu” works because of Denzel Washington. He is perfectly … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 12/08/06 Blood Diamond (R)Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer ConnellyDirected by: Edward ZwickThe vast majority of the world’s diamonds are controlled by syndicates in South Africa and Russia, but there are a few other places where the shiny, gem-quality, pressurized carbon bits are mined as well. Financing genocidal revolutions and worlords, these are called blood diamonds and a few are even tinged pink. DiCaprio has long wanted … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 12/01/06 Turistas (R)Melissa George, Josh Duhamel, Olivia WildeDirected by: John StockwellBus accident in Brazil strands a group of nubile students leading to nudity, graphic violence, and gore.Gil does not screen or review slasher films The Nativity Story (PG)Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shoreh AghdashlooDirected by: Catherine HardwickeThe Oscar-nominated girl from “Whale Rider,” plays the pregnant Virgin Mary, and the Oscar-nominated mother from “The House of Sand and Fog” plays … Read More »

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