Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001   PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Jack Angel, Ben Kingsley, Keith Campbell, April Grace, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman
After Stanley Kubrick's death, Steven Spielberg inherited this story about a mid-21st century android, David (Haley Joel Osment), who has been programmed to love. Eleven-year-old David comes to the Swinton home as a replacement for the family's son, Martin (Jake Thomas), who is ill. But when Martin returns to his family, the Swinton's abandon David. He is set adrift in the world–dreaming of becoming a real boy and being loved by the Swintons. 1 User Review
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| | Ultimately, this film fails, but it is worth watching. | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The story about the almost-collaboration of Spielberg and Kubrick is well known by now; and you can't help but see the seams throughout the film: the ethereal quality of Kubrick does not quite fit the moral fables of Spielberg. The movie is too long, too episodic, and, finally, too pat.
But there are ideas and images running through this film that should not be easily dismissed or discounted. Haley Joel Osment really is so good it hurts, but, more importantly, there is an attempt here at scope, at vision which is worth our attention even if it doesn't quite work. Spielberg tries to explain too much; Kubrick would have let it remain unresolved imaage. But you can forgive ambition a lot more easily than insufficiency.
I'm sorry it's not a better film. I'm glad someone serious tried. |
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 The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2004  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Niels Mueller
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Brad William Henke, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson, April Grace, Jared Dorrance, Nick Searcy, Jenna Milton, Mariah Massa
Businessman Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) believes that life in America is not fair. His solution: hijack a commercial airliner and crash it into the White House hoping to kill President Nixon–and make himself a martyr in the process. Based on history, this film involves the 1974 attempt by Samuel Byek to assassinate Nixon.
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Behind Enemy Lines: Axis of Evil 2006  R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
aka: Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Director: James Dodson
Cast: Nicholas Gonzalez, Matt Bushell, Shane Edelman, Peter Coyote, Keith David, Bruce McGill, Glenn Morshower, Ben Cross, Eyal Podell, Denis Arndt, April Grace, Courtenay Taylor
Navy SEALS are given orders to destroy a nuclear site in North Korea, but after the team arrives in the area the mission is aborted. Now, the SEALS are stranded in enemy territory and left with no choice; to survive they must defeat the rebel forces that threaten not only their lives but those of the entire free world as well.
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 Constantine 2005 R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Stormare, Jesse Ramirez, Jose Zuniga, Francis Guinan, Larry Cedar, April Grace, Suzanne Whang
Comic book, supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) comes to the screen in this story that begins when Angela (Rachel Weisz) asks his aid in investigating the suicide of her twin sister, Isabel (also played by Weisz). This leads to demon slayer Constantine battling emissaries of both Heaven and Hell who are trying to upset the balance of cosmic power.
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Finding Forrester 2000 PG-13, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, April Grace, Michael Pitt, Michael Nouri, Richard Easton, Glenn Fitzgerald
Because Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is very bright and an exceptional basketball player as well, he gains entrance to a private school in Manhattan. Once enrolled, Jamal meets the reclusive author William Forrester (Sean Connery). They form a bond, and the ensuing relationship proves beneficial to both.
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I Am Legend 2007 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith, Darrell Foster, April Grace, Dash Mihok, Joanna Numata, Samuel Glen, James Michael McCauley, Marin Ireland, Pedro Mojica
Adapted from Richard Matheson's apocalyptic book, the year is 2009, and a Manhattan military scientist, Dr. Robert Neville (Will Smith), has survived the plague (due to being immune) that occurred three years before and killed most of the human race. Those who survived have been turned into cannibal mutants, roaming the streets at night waiting for Neville to make a fatal mistake so they will be able to eat him and his German Shepherd, Sam. Not willing to give up, Neville uses his own blood and tests for cures in his high-tech lab–all the while refusing to admit that this is the end of the world. Previously made as "The Omega Man" and "The Last Man on Earth."
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The Lost Room 2006  TV, 284 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
Director: Craig R. Baxley, Michael W. Watkins
Cast: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Roger Bart, Dennis Christopher, Peter Jacobson, Ewen Bremner, Chris Bauer, April Grace, Margaret Cho, Jason Antoon, Jenny Gabrielle, Tim Guinee
This three-part, made-for-TV miniseries involves eerie events that take place in Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel on Route 66. As Police Detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause) collects clues to retrieve his young daughter Anna (Elle Fanning) who disappeared in the mysterious motel room, he is followed by shadowy figures every step of the way.
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Safe 1995 R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, James LeGros, Mary Carver, Jessica Harper, Brandon Cruz, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Steven Gilborn, April Grace, Peter Crombie, Ronnie Farer, Jodie Markell, Lorna Scott
Carol White (Julianne Moore) develops a severe allergy to almost everything in the modern world. Her husband Greg (Xander Berkeley) cannot come to terms with her condition, but while Carol is in the hospital where they are trying to determine her problem, she sees a commercial for Wrenwood, which is a New Mexico retreat for those suffering with "20th Century Disease." Carol is convinced that her only hope lies at Wrenwood, and she checks into the retreat, which is headed by Peter Dunning (Peter Friedman) who believes in a questionable therapy, and she finds herself in even more trouble.
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Waterproof 2001 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Berman
Cast: April Grace, Whitman Mayo, Burt Reynolds, Cordereau Dye, Brandon Crawford, Ja'net DuBois, Anthony Lee, Orlando Jones, Lou Criscuolo, Al Wiggins, Leland L. Jones, Joe Inscoe
An elderly Jewish, Washington, D.C., merchant–Eli Zeal (Burt Reynolds)–is robbed by 10-year-old Thaniel (Cordereau Dye) and two men who are directing the heist. The gun goes off, injuring Eli. At that moment, Thaniel's mother (April Grace) drives by, comes in to save her son, and kidnaps Eli to take on a trip to Louisiana where she seeks refuge.
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| 1. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
3. Behind Enemy Lines: Axis of Evil (2006)
aka: Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
4. Constantine (2005)
5. Finding Forrester (2000)
6. I Am Legend (2007)
7. The Lost Room (2006)
8. Safe (1995)
9. Waterproof (2001)
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