Avatar (2009)

Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver

Director: James Cameron

Genre: thriller, sf, adventure

The King of the World has returned! Mr. James Cameron's youngest
"Avatar" is a mind-blowing adventure and the most impressive and
intricate work of art, I've ever se…

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The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)

Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Michelle Nolden

Director: Robert Schwentke

Genre: sf, romance, drama

I had read the book three times when it first came out, so I was
excited when I got tickets to an advance screening. I was just hoping
they didn't ruin the book. I know films can't be like the books, so I
carefully did not re-read …

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O… Çocuklari (2008)

Cast: Demet Akbag, Özgü Namal, Sarp Apak

Director: Murat Saraçoglu

Genre: comedy, drama

Gamer (2009)

Cast: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Genre: thriller, sf, action

The premise of "Gamer" is resoundingly simple: What if gamers could
control actual people? Coming into the theater, due to the simple
premise and embarrassingly poor marketing of the film, I was expecting
a brainless, adolescently indulgent action flick. What I got was a
mind-blowing surpri…

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Surrogates (2009)

Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Genre: thriller, sf, action

With the action heroes of my generation all too old or M.I.A. (Ford,
Hackman, Eastwood), I have consistently made the comment, "Thank God
for Bruce Willis". Good ole Bruce, aging towards his mid-fifties,
consistently brings action films to our local theatres year after year
after year. As an actor, he has 70+ projects contained within his
historical biography and the guy keeps making bad films mediocre and
mediocre films watchab…

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The Ugly Truth (2009)

Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner

Director: Robert Luketic

Genre: romance, comedy

I now believe that 2009 should be dubbed the year of the Romc…

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Saw VI (2009)

Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston

Director: Kevin Greutert

Genre: thriller, mystery, horror

Coming back from the midnight viewing, I am seriously shocked. I
remember this time last year writing a review for SAW V, and from first
impressions, I enjoyed it. Digging deeper though after-wards, I
realized how much was wrong. This time however, several friends came
along, avid fans of disliking the newer installments. Well, I am happy
to say, they finally did something rig…

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2012 (2009)

Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Director: Roland Emmerich

Genre: thriller, drama, action

If you've seen Independence Day, Titanic, or any recent vintage of the
well-worn disaster film genre, you will not be disappointed at all with
any of 2012. Its 2.5 hour+ running time moves at a great clip, and
there's enough science and pseudoscience running around to give the
film a certain of-the-moment wonder and clarity. The many destruction
sequences throughout the film are absolutely breathtaking to behold,
and one wonders if Roland Emmerich starts every film imagining how he
will destroy the White House. Like all of his other films (except for
The Patriot) it has big names but no huge names and really is a blast
to watch. It has just the right balance of action and melodrama, often,
as with all good films of this genre, in the same scene. The audience I
watched it with was laughing and cheering throughout, and I'm sure it
will be the definitive event movie of the holiday season, critics be
damn…

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Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons

Director: Karyn Kusama

Genre: thriller, sf, horror

Okay, people, this movie is simply proof that this woman's Oscar was a
sham. Had Megan Fox been cast in Juno, would DC have won the Oscar for
the screenplay? Of course not. Juno was a mediocre film on the page,
brought to life by the amazing performance of Page and direction of
Reitman, with the quirky music and and the quirky acting of Cera
helping it feel "fresh" when it wasn't. But what do the stupid Oscar
voters do? They give DC the Oscar and ignore the fact that she was
CARRIED by the others, while denying Page and Reitman Oscars. Probably
because of DC's personal story of sex worker turned "genius", as
Hollywood loves to reward the sleazy people, and DC had a sleazy li…

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