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Animal instincts: “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans”
Herzog directs Cage and it’s a great match in “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans”
Deductive reasoning, now with Kung Fu!: “Sherlock Holmes”
Guy Ritchie delivers a clever revamp of the classic detective Sherlock Holmes.
Wasted potential: “Brothers”
Jim Sheridans’ “Brothers” comes up short.
Stylish Pulp: “Broken Embraces”
Penélope Cruz is happy, sad, afraid and frankly a little horny.
Destination Isolation: “Up in the Air”
Jason Reitman delivers a great film on the woes of globalization and isolation in modern America.
Heart of dotcomness: “We Live in Public”
Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner captures the life and vision of internet pioneer Josh Harris in the interesting and bizarre “We Live in Public”.
One righteous, nunchuks-swinging brother: “Black Dynamite”
“Black Dynamite” is a loving send-up to blaxploitation films.
Get your Irish up- as in surf: “Waveriders”
Surfings Irish roots are creatively chronicled
Rural Redemption: “Revanche”
Can a gun correct lifes’ cruelty?