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Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Friday, March 5, 2010 |
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Alice in Wonderland |
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PG 2010
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When an independent, headstrong 19-year-old woman (Mia Wasikowski) falls into a rabbit hole in Victorian England after being surprised with a marriage proposal from a geeky lord (Tim Pigott-Smith) in this colorful, imaginative, creative, three-dimensional, star-studded (Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, and Crispin Glover), Tim Burton fantasy adventure, which is based on the Lewis Carroll classics Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Alice ends up in Underland where she meets fascinating creatures, saves the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) from the evil Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), and takes up a sword for the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) to battle the fierce Jabberwocky (Christopher Lee).
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Brooklyn's Finest |
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R 2010
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While a disillusioned, suicidal, 22-year veteran (Richard Gere) of the Brooklyn police force waits out his last seven days before retirement reluctantly training two rookie cops (Jesse Williams and Logan Marshall-Green) and an undercover detective (Don Cheadle) deep into a drug sting desperately wants back into a normal life in this bleak, violent, action-packed, cameo-dotted (Ellen Barkin, Will Patton, Wesley Snipes, and Vincent D’Onofrio) film, a crooked, scumbag cop (Ethan Hawke) with a house full of kids desperately tries to come up with the money to buy a new house for his asthmatic, pregnant wife (Lili Taylor).
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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet |
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NR 2010
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[Minnesota Films Arts plays this film March 5-11 at the St. Anthony Main Theater; for more information, log on to www.filmarts.org or call 612/331-3134.] Exquisite ballet dancing highlights this artistic, informative, but repetitive, 159-minute Frederick Wiseman documentary that primarily consists of an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the agile, athletic, Paris Opera Ballet dancers, such as, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Nicolas Le Riche, and Agnès Letestu, as they rehearse ballets, including The Nutcracker and Paquita, at the architecturally stunning Palais Garnier and the choreography of Mats Ek, Sasha Waltz, Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev, and Pina Bausch.
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Saint John of Las Vegas |
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R 2010
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A quirky, lackluster, humorless, cameo-dotted (Tom Blake Nelson, John Cho, and Danny Trejo) black comedy about the mishaps that ensue when an ambitious, lottery-playing, down-on-his-luck insurance company employee (Steve Buscemi) reluctantly leaves his girlfriend (Sarah Silverman) in Albuquerque after his boss (Peter Dinklage) sends him out on the road with a longtime insurance-fraud investigator (Romany Malco) to check out an insurance claim of a Las Vegas stripper (Emmanuelle Chriqui).
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End of the Line, The |
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NR 2010
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Ted Danson narrates this powerful, eye-opening, disturbing, conscience-raising, 90-minute, 2009 scientific documentary, which is based on journalist Charles Clover’s book and is punctuated with gorgeous and colorful photography, that interviews professors (such as Pete Peterson, Ray Hilborn, Steve Palumbi, Yvonne Sadovy, Jeffrey Hutchings, Daniel Pauly, and Boris Worm), fishermen (such as Matthew Moir, Hardy McKinney, Manolo Pacheco Luis, and Adama Mbergaul), WWF bluefin tuna expert Dr. Sergi Tudela, diver Haidar El Ali, west African fisheries expert Rashid Sumaila, former U.K. fisheries minister (2003-2007) Ben Bradshaw, Nobu’s managing partner Richie Notar, chefs Jamie Oliver and Chef Maxwell, and former tuna diver and whistleblower Roberto Mielgo Bregazzi in an attempt to raise public awareness about the alarming effects of overfishing (for example, the drastic depletion, if not extinction, of species such as bluefin tuna, Atlantic salmon and redfish, Southern hake, American plaice, and codfish) and to present solutions to film viewers to help prevent the extinction of marine life by 2050, including inquiring about sustainable seafood before purchase, changing eating habits, requesting that politicians reduce fishing fleets and make responsible decisions regarding the oceans, joining the campaign to promote protected marine reserves and responsible fishing, and enforcing the global fishing industry to abide by rules and change its capacity.
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©2010 by Wendy Schadewald
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