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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Lashings of non-ginger beer

On July 1, I activated the Foxtel movie channels, and over the rest of the month have made the acquaintance of several fillums from the 2000s. A biblical 40, to be precise. Robot roll call! "The Killer Inside Me", "Fright Night" (remake), "Centurion", "Snowtown", "Thor", "Red", "Sucker Punch", "Page Eight", "Paul", "Black Swan", "Treasure Guards", "Page One: Inside 'The New York Times'", "Jonah Hex", "The Trip", "Freakonomics", "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", "The Eagle", "Brick", "Conan The Barbarian" (remake), "Howl", "Kung Fu Panda 2", "Red Riding Hood", "War Of The Buttons", "Storytelling", "Morlocks", "8 Women", "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", "The Special Relationship", "Dinner For Schmucks", "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold", "The Ghost Writer", "Another Year", "The Last Airbender", "Volver", "Kaboom", "Drive Angry", "Red Dog", "Johnny English Reborn", "Shaolin" and "Source Code".

If I was to recommend five of 'em for a rainy day, I'd suggest the guaranteed-not-to-bore mix of "Page One: Inside 'The New York Times'", "The Trip", "Howl" (was surprised by how much I dug this, since during my Beat phase I never cared for Ginsberg like I did for Kerouac and Burroughs), "8 Women" and, as an epic finale, "Shaolin".

Here are the relevant trailers:

http://goo.gl/aoDac
http://goo.gl/sBFmz
http://goo.gl/WC5Yp
http://goo.gl/32QWW (doesn't do it justice, I'm afraid)
http://goo.gl/TFp0Z

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