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Month: October 2010

Fireproof – Saving a Marriage Movie

Fireproof (film)

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Caleb is a firefighter, and town hero, who finds it impossible to save his dying marriage to Katherine, a public relations officer at a Georgia hospital. The forty-day marital counseling project Caleb takes on doesn’t work, but it becomes a kind of tool the Almighty uses to bring renewal to the damaged couple. Long before the marriage is mended, Caleb gives himself to Christ. It makes a difference.

The comic moments in Alex and Stephen Kendrick‘s film are lame and so is much, though not all, of the acting (Kirk Cameron is solid as Caleb, Erin Bethea respectable as Katherine) .

Changeling Movie Review

Dean's Movie Review

I got tired long ago of movies that focus on immoral, abusive police officers. There are too many of them. Clint Eastwood‘s “Changeling” does that, too, but I can take a small amount of comfort in the fact that ITS police officers exist numerous decades ago in the late 1920s.

Cover of "Changeling"

Cover of Changeling

And in the fact that there’s a brutal, psychopathic killer in the film whom the police don’t try to protect.

Ah, but what about all the snake-pit balderdash at the mental hospital to which poor Angelina Jolie is consigned?

“Changeling” is more intriguing than successful. Joe Morgenstern of the “Wall Street Journal” correctly points out that

a) folks in the Twenties didn’t jabber about self-esteem and

b) the woman played by Jolie and the preacher played by John Malkovich are together a lot “but don’t really interact.”

They should, but they don’t.

Eastwood’s film handles some grisly subject matter with an ineptitude so many of his other movies have been marked with as well.

High School Musical 3

Dean's Movie Review

So many dubious words have been written about this Disney lark, sequel to the TV specials, that I decided to respond with my own review.

Now a big-screen item, the movie benefits from having mainly the same cast as the debut “HSM” and “HSM2,” the former of which I have seen (and enjoyed), the latter of which I haven’t. I’m not a good judge of choreography but that which Kenny Ortega, the film’s director, and two others have provided seems impressive to me.

The Dark Knight – Batman DVD Review

Dean's Movie Review

Christopher Nolan’s Batman movie is certainly not a comedy. It has the elements of tragedy, but whereas something like “Macbeth” offers plot simplicity, “Knight” is a complex mediocrity which I found hard to follow.

What I was able to follow–time and again–made no sense.

Health Ledger The Joker

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The film’s gravity packs a punch, but with action sequences which fail to satisfy. Christian Bale is no big deal as Batman/Bruce Wayne, while Maggie Gyllenhaal, nifty as usual, has an easy part to play. Aaron Eckhart is sophisticatedly true as a district attorney,

Heath Ledger terrifying and magisterial as the Joker–one of the best acting jobs of the year.

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