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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. |
Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
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Albert Nobbs |
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R 2012
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Superb acting highlights this intriguing, engaging, uneven, unpredictable film, which is based on George Moore’s 1927 novel The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, in which a frugal, reserved, repressed Irish woman (Glenn Close), who dreams of owning a tobacco shop in Dublin, carefully and meticulously disguises herself as a man for more than thirty years in order to work as a waiter at a posh hotel in 19th-century Ireland that hosts colorful, snobbish patrons (Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Light, et al.) who are attended to by dutiful inn employees (Mia Wasikowska, Brenda Fricker, Aaron Johnson, et al.), and suddenly she finds that her secret may be jeopardized when the strict, miserly hotel owner (Pauline Collins) forces a newly hired interior painter (Janet McTreer) to temporarily share her bed.
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Grey, The |
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R 2012
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A suspenseful, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking thriller in which seven oil rigging company employees (Liam Neeson, Dermont Mulroney, Frank Grillo, James Badge Dale, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, and Ben Bray) must battle the harsh elements, vicious wolves, and their own inner demons when a plane crashes in the remote, grey Alaskan wilderness.
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Man on a Ledge |
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PG-13 2012
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While a police psychologist and hostage negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to prevent a former detective (Sam Worthington), who recently escaped from Sing Sing prison after receiving a 25-year sentence for robbery, from jumping off the ledge of a mid-town Manhattan hotel in this suspenseful, action-packed, twisting, star-studded (Kyra Sedgwick, Ed Burns, Anthony Mackie, William Sadler, et al.) thriller, his brother (Jamie Bell) and a sultry woman (Genesis Rodriguez) try to break in to a vault across the street to steal a $40 million diamond from an unscrupulous, ruthless real estate developer (Ed Harris) to prove his innocence.
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame |
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PG-13 2012
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Phenomenal sets, vibrant costumes, spectacular martial arts, and gorgeous cinematography dominate this entertaining, colorful, action-packed, factually inspired, 2010 Chinese film in which a skillful detective (Andy Lau), a Supreme Court official (Chao Deng), and an empress protector (Bingbing Li) investigate the mysterious death of two supervisors (Yan Qin and Jinshan Liu), who seem to have died by spontaneous combustion, after working inside a colossal 66-yard high Buddha that was to be completed for the coronation of Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau) in 689 A.D during the Tang dynasty.
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Underworld: Awakening |
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R 2012
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After the gutsy hybrid daughter (India Eisley) of a lycan/vampire (Michael Sheen) is recaptured by a mad doctor (Stephen Rae), who is allegedly developing a vaccine to protect mankind from vampire and werewolf bites, and his henchmen (Kris-Holden-Ried, Robert Lawrenson, et al.) in this dark, somber, bloody, violent, 3D, star-dotted (Charles Dance, Sandrine Holt, et al.) horror film sequel, her vampire mother (Kate Beckinsale), a vampire (Theo James), and a detective (Michael Ealy) join forces to save her.
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©2012 by Wendy Schadewald
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