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After Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) ruin a massive undercover investigation through their usual antics they have been suspended from the force.  With Jimmy strapped for cash right before he has to pay for his daughter’s wedding he heads out to sell his mint condition rare baseball card.  In a turn of unforeseen events the card is stolen from him and this sends Jimmy and Paul on the case of the stolen baseball card which becomes something else entirely. (more…)

note: this is a repost of one my Reviews from Aug 9th, 2008.

Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders. (more…)

note:  I’ve decided to go back to doing individual reviews for each film in my marathons.  Please continue to enjoy.

Having decided to marry, Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer), Karin (Meryl Streep) migrates to Africa to do so and run a farm while she’s there.  Eventually she finds that she meets Denys (Robert Redford) and falls madly in love with him after discovering that this marriage she wanted turned out to be nothing like she expected.  The film chronicles Karin’s time in Africa. (more…)

It’s been two week since my last update on my Kurosawa watchings and I’m here to report that I have since then completed my planned marathon.  I did finish a month later than planned, but really who cares?  In the last two weeks I’ve watched High and Low (1963), Stray Dog (1949) and Seven Samurai (1954).  Here are my thoughts on each. (more…)

Lawrence [Benecio Del Toro] returns home to try and solve the mystery of what beast killed his brother.  While out in the night searching for answers he happens to come in contact with the beast and is wounded.  He is now cursed.  Lawrence must now come to terms with his new self while at the same time learning more about this life under the pale moonlight. (more…)

After an incident on the carrier Maverick [Tom Cruise] and Goose [Anthony Edwards] have become the candidate for Top Gun, a school for the best of the best fighter pilots to make them better.  We are then treated to eight weeks of training sessions and classes about flying fighter planes in the 80s. (more…)

James Reece [Jonathan Ryhs Meyers] is the aid to the US Ambassador in France.  James wants to become a proper special ops agent and after showing some initiative his employers decide to team him up with Charlie Wax [John Travolta] on a mission to get answers in Paris to stop the bad guys. (more…)

I’ve been a horrible blogger.  I’ve spent the last few weeks paying more attention to my writings for http://www.thefilmstage.com and I’ve forgot all about my marathon posts (and even viewings).  However, fret not I will not abandon this crash course in film education.  I will complete this marathon; however I think I’m going to change how I handle these Marathon posts.  From now on I will make 1 post each week where I will discuss two, or how many, films that I watched that week in my marathon.

Anyways, this past week in my Kurosawa Marathon I watched: (more…)

After Frank [Henry Fonda] and his crew massacres the McBain family he leaves a newlywed wife, Jill McBain [Claudia Cardinale], a widow and the sole owner of the McBain estate.  The prime suspect, Cheyenne [Jason Robards], and a passer through, Harmonica [Charles Bronson], decide to find the man responsible and make him pay for his crimes against the lady. (more…)

Emma Craven [Bojana Novakovic] decides to come home and spend some time with her father, Thomas Craven [Mel Gibson], when she is suddenly murdered in her father’s arms.  As Thomas, being a Boston Detective, works his way to the truth as to who killed his daughter and why he finds out about multiple conspiracies occurring with his daughter’s employers and the US Government. (more…)