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Harry & Tonto (1974)

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Harry & Tonto (1974)“Harry & Tonto” is a road movie of a different kind. You can read the full DVD review over at eyecravedvd.com or read on for the movie review.

The movie starts out by showing old people walking down the streets in New York accompanied by piano music ending up showing Harry and Tonto on their way to the groceries. This introduction is great for setting the pace and mood of the whole piece. The exposition of the character basically consists of Harry’s monologue with Tonto as listener narrating little anecdotes, things of the past, leading up to the eviction of Harry Coombes as he is carried out of the building sitting in his chair he fell asleep in with Tonto on his lap, sprouting out curses (quotes from Lear) at the top of his voice.

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A River Runs Through It (1992)

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A River Runs Through It (1992)Head on over to my DVD review of “A River Runs Through It” (Deluxe Edition) at eyecravedvd.com or read on for the movie review.

“A river runs through it” is the Academy Award winning screen adaptation (1992, Best Cinematography) of Norman Maclean’s memoir directed by Robert Redford. Starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, and Tom Skerritt in an American family drama set in the 1930s in a beautifully shot rural Montana. The father, a Presbyterian minister, played by Tom Skerritt, raises two sons of opposite nature; the one reserved the other rebellious. The former, Norman Maclean, is played by Craig Sheffer and the latter, Paul, by Brad Pitt. The story covers the life and history of the family and as such the movie is heavily focused on dialogue intertwined with the breathtakingly beautiful Montana landscape.

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Firewalker (1986)

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Firewalker (1986)The posts have stopped. The writer is sick but before you rechoice I am already pulling through and actually am getting better! So I am afraid there will be more uncanny reviews and babblings come March.

For a start you can check out my DVD review on Mr. Roundhouse Kick also known as Chuck “Firewalker” Norris over at eyecravedvd.com.

Save your strength, you will need it.

The “story” of this movie is already contained on the back cover so I will just fill in the pieces I found noteworthy of mentioning. Along with Max and Leo (Norris and Gosset) we have Patricia Goodwyn (Flash Gordon’s Melody Anderson), the treasure hunting team who go to Southern America to get the Aztec gold hidden in a temple (of doom) with lots of crappy plaster walls and Goonies-like wannabe-traps.

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Garden State (2004)

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Garden State (2004)If the only thing that keeps you going is your faith and you no longer know what you believe in or have stopped believing in anything anymore then you must feel quite lost and life may bear no meaning. “Garden State” is about twenty-six-year-old Andrew “Large” Largeman (Zach Braff) who is so numb and void of emotions that he has literally detached himself from everything and everyone around him.
When we zoom in on him in the beginning of the movie, he is lying in a white room in a white bed and he looks so pale, he might as well be already dead.
Together with Braff the viewer goes on a journey of awakening, of rediscovering life, of experiencing emotions, honest and heartfelt emotions.

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