Monthly Archives: April 2006

Aeon Flux (2005)

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Aeon Flux (2005)Charlize Theron in black latex. I think that sums up this movie pretty much. Fans of the Aeon Flux comics must be ultimately disappointed and newcomers to the Flux universe will find themselves wondering what this nonsense is all about. The story is rushed, incoherent, makes all the wrong turns and essentially fails to deliver its main premise of a dystopian world.

The characters are all but cardboard figures and the action sequences that basically make this movie are barely enough to keep watching, if it weren’t for the added babe factor. So this movie is mainly targeted at a male audience? You tell me. At the end of the day, it’s neither the special effects nor the babe factor that make a good movie. Sadly enough Æon Flux offers nothing beyond that.
5/10

The 4400 Season 2 DVD Release

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The 4400 - Season 2Quote: “This title will be released on May 23, 2006″. Rejoice and begin the countdown for the DVD release for The 4400 Season 2!

Meanwhile hop over to the official 4400 website and dig into the database, freshen up your memory. Should you have missed “The 4400″ completely so far then you might want to start with Season One right away, if you like good Sci-Fi that is.

Season One consists of a 5 episodes mini series and after its success was picked up for a second season consisting of 12 (13 if you count the 2parter extra) episodes and the show now has been renewed for a third season premiering in summer 2006 and all cast members are expected to return.

We are lost! S.O.S. (2×19)

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This week’s episode of ABC’s hit series LOST offers little to no action and all character development. There are some sweet scenes in there, brief ones that are both revealing and foreboding, so watch out for those. Other than that we again get to see an aggravated Ana Lucia, no wonder with all the steroids she has to take due to Michelle Rodriguez’s cockroach allergy.

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The Crook (1970)

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The Crook (1970)The DVD review on Claude Lelouch’s “The Crook” (1970) featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant is now available on eyecravedvd.com. Hop over there or read on for the movie review.

Simon the “Swiss” (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is the master mind thief in “The Crook” or “Le Voyou” who just breaks out of prison to do a bank robbery of another kind. He kidnaps the little boy of an employee of the bank and blackmails the bank together with his old friend Charles (Charles Gerard) and Martine (Christine Lelouch) his ex lover now married to a rich (yogurt) guy with whom she raises their bastard daughter (but that’s just a tiny detail that is not further explored in any way).

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Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

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Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)My DVD review on Sam Peckinpah’s twisted masterpiece “Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” is now up on eyecravedvd.com. Hop over there for the full review or read on for the movie review.

Bennie (Warren Oates) wants to get ahead in his life. Nobody loses all the time and he thinks it’s his time to win at least a little. “Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia” does not aim to please the audience it aims to mess with it.

The movie starts out with a picturesque scene at a pond and a young pregnant girl sitting on a log, her feet dangling in the cool water. This idyllic moment is not going to last and we are shown early on what is going to transpire as we follow the young girl back to the hacienda to her father who wants to know who the father is. He has her stripped naked in front of everyone but she remains defiant and will not tell so he has her pushed to the ground and her finger broken. El Jefe (Emilio Fernández) gets the name. Alfredo Garcia. And he wants his head. A head he is willing to pay one million dollars for.

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