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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, May 17, 2013 |
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Sightseers |
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NR 2013
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Gorgeous scenery and cinematography highlight this wacky, unexpectedly dark, 88-minute, 2012 comedy in which a 34-year-old British woman (Alice Lowe), who lives with her troublesome mother (Eileen Davies), learns more about herself when she goes on vacation with a psychotic, hotheaded, wannabe writer (Steve Oram) and end up on a killing spree throughout the idyllic English countryside nonchalantly murdering irritating tourists, including a pudgy litterer (Tony Way), a smug amateur photographer (Jonathan Aries), a bicyclist (Richard Glover), a blunt environmentalist (Richard Lumsden), a jogger (Gareth Jones), and a bride-to-be (Rachel Austin).
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Iceman, The |
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R 2013
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A gritty, dark, intense, violent, factually based, cameo-dotted (James Franco, Chris Evans, David Schwimmer, Shephen Dorff, and Robert Davi), 93-minute film that follows the deadly career of cold-blooded, steely-eyed, hotheaded, Polish contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) in New Jersey, who kept his secret life from his clueless wife (Winona Ryder) and two daughters (McKaley Miller and Megan Sherrill), as he murdered more than 100 people after he began working as a hitman for a gangster (Ray Liotta) in April 1964 until his ultimate arrest in 1986.
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Love Is All You Need |
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R 2013
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When a down-on-her-luck Danish beautician (Trine Dyrholm) struggling with recovering from breast cancer returns home to find her callous, thoughtless husband (Kim Bodnia) having sex with a ditsy coworker (Christiane Schaumburg-Müller) in this heartwarming, down-to-earth, romantic chick flick, she heads alone to a coastal villa in scenic Italy for the wedding of her daughter (Molly Blixt Egelind) to her beau of three months (Sebastian Jessen) and unexpectedly finds a connection with a handsome, anger-filled, wealthy widower (Pierce Brosnan).
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Star Trek into Darkness |
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PG-13 2013
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After a Star Fleet officer (Benedict Cumberbatch) rages a one-man war against Star Fleet by destroying its London archive facility and killing a number of Star Fleet personnel (Bruce Greenwood, et al.) in this intense, thrilling, action-packed, well-paced, 3D, 132-mintue sequel dotted with humor and highlighted by dazzling special effects, an admiral (Peter Weller) orders Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his dedicated Enterprise crew (Zachary Quinto, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Alice Eve, et al.) to head to the Klingon home world Kronos to take out the criminal.
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Royal Affair, A |
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R 2013
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After gorgeous, independent, well-read, English princess Caroline Mathilda (Alicia Vikander) weds the mentally unstable, insufferable, narcissistic, immature, adulterous Danish King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) in 1766 in this slow-moving, colorful, factually based, 137-minute, 2012 film filled with beautiful costumes and striking cinematography, the bored, restless queen falls for the handsome the free-thinking physician Friedrich Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen) in Copenhagen, and when the ruthless king’s stepmother (Trine Dyrholm) learns of her infidelity, it sets the stage for her and her lover’s ultimate downfall.
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©2013 by Wendy Schadewald
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