December 28th, 2007 04:49pm
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New Releases 12/28/07
The Great Debaters (PG-13)Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Trenton McClain Boyd, Devyn Tyler, Kimberly EliseDirector: Denzel WashingtonSort of a cross between “Remember the Titans“and “Spellbound,” this movie uses the sports cliché of the underdog college team from the Jim Crow South competing against the national champions. Only this is a team of debaters (that’s right, people who stand up and hurl well …
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December 21st, 2007 03:24pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 12/21/07Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (R)Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan RickmanDirected by: Tim BurtonI have always thought that this tale of a tortured barber who killed his customers and dumped them through a trap door for his landlady to make them into fresh, meat pies was a spurious waste of Stephen Sondheim’s considerable talent. I still do. Cannibalisim, …
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December 14th, 2007 03:35pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 12/14/07
I Am Legend (PG-13)Will Smith, Allice BraggaDirected by: Fancis LawrenceWill Smith is a far, far better actor than Charleton Heston was in the original version (”The Omega Man“), based on Richard Matheson’s story. It’s a tale of Armagedden with only one man left alive until… The set-up followed by the single survivor scavenging through an abandoned Manhattan are marvelous, but then the albino …
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December 7th, 2007 03:06pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 12/07/07
The Golden Compass (PG-13)Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards Directed by: Joby HaroldComplex, invigorating, and richly textured, the first book in Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy was (for me) the best of the three. When I first read of a Ronin-style polar bear who forged his own armor out of discarded wood stoves, I was hooked. And in the movie version, the fantasmagorical aspects are intact. …
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December 7th, 2007 02:48pm
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Thanks From Gil
The e-mail subject line read: “And the Winner Is…” and the contents revealed that, thanks to you, (and the tens of thousands of readers who joined with you), “Cinema Toast” was selected as one of the Top 5 Blogs on the Petaluma 360 website.
It’s not a local event either. I’ve received hundreds of “hits” from Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the British …
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