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The Pink Panther (1963) review

By Greg Treadway ⋅ January 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For me there are two Peter Sellars movies, The Pink Panther and Dr. Strangelove. Both are very different movies and Sellars is very different in each one. One thing is true of both movies and of Sellars in both movies and that is they are fall down funny movies. Originally The Pink Panther was to [...]

The Reader (2008) review

By Greg Treadway ⋅ January 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  Frost/Nixon  Milk  The Reader  Slumdog Millionaire The Reader (2008) review The film smacks us right away as a series of moral dilemmas. Certainly contrived by author Bernhard Schlink, whose original original The Reader was an international bestseller. Schlink, a lawyer/judge who usually writes detective stories. [...]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) review

By Greg Treadway ⋅ January 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON When I first started to go through this reversal of aging film I was skeptical. I knew right away that this was a story adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald. From what I recall about that book things don’t go so well. I also did not recall the book talking [...]

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) review

By Greg Treadway ⋅ January 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The year 2008 and the great movies it brought us would not be complete talking about without Slumdog Millionaire. Arguably the best movie of the year and certainly the best indie movie of the year. It’s hard to believe but friends are dragging friends to this movie in herds. It is amazing how people are [...]