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  • Mamma Mia! - Review

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    Mamma Mia!  (2008)

    Anticip . . . ation. The actors. The music. The whole shebang. When everything aligns into the perfectly anticipated film and nothing can go wrong. Until you begin taking those first big gulps of your soda and unexpectedly aspirate a handful of popcorn. The indelible stage play Mamma Mia! wholeheartedly attempts to capture the magic of ABBA and metamorphose it into a cohesive story about life and its many eccentricities. Depending on whether or not you have seen it will undoubtedly effect your subsequent opinion of the filmic adaptation. With a spastic story-line mixed with bewildering musical sequences, Mamma Mia! is constructed for a special someone that can ignore lack of musical talent and focus blithely on superficiality. Equally filled with moments of mild amusement and unbearable pain, it's definitely a sight to behold for all of those that want to "take a chance" on it.


  • Nancy Drew - Review

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    Nancy Drew  (2007)

    Simple, clean lines with sporadic bursts of color. Like the vintage clothing she makes herself, Nancy Drew is a peculiar case just waiting to be solved. Seemingly existing in a world deeply hidden within our own in which teenagers barely able to drive are more than capable of scaling building, detail classic cars, willingly engage in intelligent conversion devoid of chatspeak and concern themselves with helping and understanding the world around them, Nancy Drew is for lack of a better word, refreshing. Albeit rather inhibited and droll in certain parts, the film is not unlike it's protagonist: abrasive to those not on the same wavelength and curiously appealing in its personable idiosycrasies.


  • Sex and Death 101 - Review

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    Heathers  (1989)

    With divine providence arriving neatly as an email in his inbox, Roderick Blank (Simon Baker) soon discovers that the powers that be have clued him into his future sexual proclivities and provided a list with the names of every person he will have sex with for the rest of his life. Scorned by a fetishisticly minded, abusive husband, Death Nell (Winona Ryder) becomes a champion of womanhood and embraces her own sadistic qualities as she leads the crusade / death march against those penis-wielding individuals that dare to scoff at the almighty power of the vagina. Together they amass a body count of victims (his orgasmic, hers comatose; i.e. Sex and Death 101) in this all too overwhelming slapstick, yet bordering romantic, comedy suffused with bits of erotica and horror that ultimately results in an putrid amalgam almost-could-have-been memorable film by that guy that made Heathers


 

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