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Release Year: 1963
Japan’s most respected director, Akira Kurosawa, is best known for his Samurai classics. Often borrowing source material from Shakespeare (Ran is based on King Lear and Throne of Blood is based on Macbeth), he just as often provided source material himself for other directors in the West. His signature piece, Seven [...]

Release Date: August 11, 2006 (limited)
Every so often a film comes along that really just blows me away. A timeless and original love story, an engaging drama, or even a ruckus comedy may do the trick. And it is this reason that I try to see as many movies as humanly possible without losing my [...]

Release Date: August 8, 2006
I have been on the Brick bandwagon for months now; and ever since seeing it at the Columbus alive Deep Focus Film Festival in May I have been absolutely engrossed in the astounding brilliance of this film. It is so hard these days to find films that are so original, so [...]

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Neil here… Just wanted to let everyone know that the problem we were having with the Film School Rejects RSS feed is now fixed! The problem was that no new reviews/posts were showing up in the feed and the email updates. After much pain and agony, I have fixed it so that you [...]

Release Date: August 4, 2006
Robin Williams is one of my all time favorite actors. In fact, I love him in a very non-sexual critic-to-actor sort of way. But let’s face it, the box office has not been kind territory of Robin as of late. Earlier this year he starred in RV, which was meant to [...]

Release Date: August 4, 2006
When a moviegoer purchases a ticket to a Robin Williams film he is rolling the dice. He might be treated to a rare delight, a stinker or any number of categories in between. Despite the inevitable advertisements comparing it to a Hitchcock film (there’s no special similarity outside of [...]

Release Date: August 8, 2006
I have been a fan of Clive Owen’s for a while now; he was solid in King Arthur but his performance in Closer was what really sealed the deal and made me a fan. On the flipside, I have always been somewhat lukewarm to Denzel Washington. I get it, he is [...]

You loved Super Troopers, right? Of course you did. And if you loved that movie as much as I did then there is no reason why you should not be school girl giddy over the upcoming release of Broken Lizard’s Beerfest. This film looks absolutely hysterical. It combines two things of which I am very [...]

I just got word of a new trailer for the upcoming comedy Employee of the Month. The film appears to be your run-of-the-mill “guy meets girl, guy has to beat other guy to get girl” story. The real potential is in the fact that it does star comedian Dane Cook as Zack, a stock boy [...]

Ten million fanboy and fangirl hearts started beating much faster with the news that Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe will be playing the lead role in Peter Shaffer’s highly praised but controversial play Equus. The reason to be excited for any Radcliffe fan is that Equus does feature a scene of nudity from the performances [...]

Release Date: August 1, 2006
“Remember, remember the fifth of November.”
Such a poetic line that has stuck in my mind for months since seeing V for Vendetta in theaters. It was a film that to me was stunning in it’s poetic brilliance and political relevance. But even if you take the political relevance out of the [...]

Release Date: July 26, 2006 (limited)
Little Miss Sunshine, which stars 40 Year Old Virgin’s Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette is an indie film recently that did well at Sundance recently. It is about a professor (Carell) who recently committed suicide and is now in the care of his sister (Collette) and living with [...]

Release Date: August 9, 2006
Just about every movie critic will immediately want to draw comparisons between Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center and Paul Greengrass’ heralded United 93, which was released earlier this year. I do not unfortunately have that luxury, as I am still awaiting United 93 to be released on DVD. I did not [...]

Release Date: August 4, 2006
What is it about these movies? Why is it that I can laugh almost to the point of having a bladder related accident at a myriad of mindless entertainment like Anchorman? Until now I have not been able to put my finger on it. But upon screening Will Ferrell’s latest venture [...]