September 2011
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Review: 50/50
Cancer is a word that strikes fear into peoples’ hearts like nothing else. Whereas it used to be ‘something that always happens it someone else,’ now it seems that many are resigned to the fact that it may be inevitable and just pray that their case is treatable. Nonetheless, it’s something that we don’t want to think about. This is probably why, in mainstream films, cancer patients are often...
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Review: Dreamhouse
Rather than making this horrible excuse for a film here is a list of things they should have spent their millions on. Feel free to comment below!
- Feeding the poor
- Helping harry the homeless man with his acholol addiction
- Improve the transportation system in Philadelphia Film seals eating each other
- Film seals having sex
- Give us the money
- Give a talented director the money
- Eat...
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Interview: Sam Childers - The "Machine Gun...
With his handlebar mustache and tattooed arms, Sam Childers looks like he has spent most of his life perched atop a Harley speeding down an open highway. And, indeed, he looks the part for a reason. As a former drug addict and hired muscle, it is safe to say that Childers has had his fair share of experiences in biker bars and biker brawls. Yet Childers has made a life out of turning horrible...
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Review: Killer Elite
The humdrum high-tech, low-plot action vehicle these days needs more and more oomph to rise above the brazen yet boring rabble….More solid, realistic characters? Largely absent here. More tortuously disgusting set pieces? Getting warm! An all-star cast stooping beneath their usual stature to add what they can to the mess? Bingo!
Clive Owen could probably still fascinate as an actor if...
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Review: Moneyball
Moneyball lucidly, and often comically, pays earthy homage to the lustre of baseball’s stature as “America’s pastime.” Just beneath the surface of a story arc portraying the maverick ideas of rebel general manager Billy Beane lurks a playful and endearing love of the game and its characters. It’s brought to life by Brad Pitt’s best film performance to date. ...
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Interview: Jonah Hill - "Moneyball"
In a career like Jonah Hill’s there are usually some bumps along the way but one film after another Jonah Hill (born ‘Jonah Hill Feldstein’) keeps bringing his A-Game and the world can’t seem to get enough. “TheFat kid from Superbad” has now become “That guy in that movie with P.Diddy and the English guy” or “That movie with Brad Pitt and The...
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FM Fest - The Films - Sept 22nd through 25th
Music lovers of Philadelphia have a huge weekend up ahead where they will be treated to an abnormally large and abnormally awesome Film and Music Festival. What results are the following films and events that no one in their right mind should miss.
For all you Dorks interested in these films check out the crazy-not-to-partake-in-deal on Groupon where you can go to the Kick-off Party and have a...
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Review: Bellflower
Who knew that one day someone would make a film where Mad Max and John Hughes combined into a celebretory mashup? That film is Bellflower, a film that always feels rough around the edges, but has such a soul that all its imperfections are washed away by its style, grace, and absolute greatness.
For a film that was made for barely nothing, Bellflower looks fantastic and at points, looks like...
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Review: I Don't Know How She Does It
I think it’s only prudent to be wary of films that purport to take on the whole notion of, say, a woman juggling the demands of work and family while paying little attention to the equally immediate demands of plot and character and the credibility of each. The question in my mind is how far can a movie go out of bounds in authenticity before even its modest merits diminish?
With the...
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Contest: Dream House Ticket Giveaway
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz together at last in the suspense thriller Dream House. The family (involving Jesus-like-babies if it’s Craig and Weisz reproducing) move into a home where several grisly murders were committed… only to find themselves the killer’s next target…. Dun Dun Dunn…..
We at the Dork have FREE SCREENING PASSES! for
Thursday, September 29 at 10:00 PM at the...
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Review: Drive
In Drive, the superb new thriller, Ryan Gosling can do more with his eyes in a single scene than many A-list actors can achieve given the wittiest, busiest screenplay. Scene after scene here almost approachs silent movie turf. Gosling’s character achieves a stunning minimalism that is at once terrifically appealing, and, over the course of the film, increasingly frightening. He has no name...
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Review: Straw Dogs
James Marsden is no Dustin Hoffman and director Rod Lurie is no Sam Peckinpah. The remake of the controversial 1971 film Straw Dogs, contemporizes, Americanizes, and adds just enough Grindhouse/slasher effects while making things paradoxically safe and somewhat sanitized. A film that on first thought seemed beyond the scope of a remake, also happens to be rather entertaining and not without the...
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Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn - "Drive"
Guest Contributor - Irv Slifkin from www.moviefanfare.com
Nicolas Winding Refn is tired. He’s been up since 5 AM, working on a TV commercial via Skype from his Philadelphia hotel room.
No rest for the weary, even if the weary is a serious multi-tasker.
“I wish I could get more commercial work,” says the 40-year-old filmmaker, who has a handful of films in various stages of pre-production. “I...
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Review: Red State
He’s baaaack! (But not in the lewd humor kind of way brought to you by pot smoking convenience store clerks, burger flippers or shit monsters from another world)
Director, Kevin Smith brings us his latest indi film by crashing right into our living rooms for $9.99 with his on-demand cable release that will hit at home before hits the big screen. Machine guns, ball gags, plastic wrap, and...
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Family Guy Premiere Party Ticket Giveaway!
Philadelphia Family Guy fans Unite!
The new season of Family Guy premieres on FOX September 25th, 2011 but you don’t need to wait that long. You can see the premiere episode and get a ton of free stuff at the Family Guy Premiere Party! Who has tickets to this amazing event you ask? Well the DORK does.
Comment below with your favorite Family Guy quote and win a pair of passes for you and...
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Interview: Mehcad Brooks - "Creature" and "True...
Mechad Brooks is a huge Dork and we respect the shit out of him. Video game addiction, film buff, this guy has Dork written all over himself. We were lucky enough to talk to him about his new film “Creature” with legendary horror star Sid Haigs.
Creature is in theaters everywhere! GO SEE IT! Every snake is real as much as his sweat and tears in Hatchet-like horror film.
Original...
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Review: Contagion
Watching a full-fledged plague roll in front of you really broadens your outlook. Contagion is yet another disaster flick, only this time from top-shelf director Steven Soderbergh, who knows how to achieve a slow burn toward the relatively believable dread of a global pandemic. Ready to curl up to a lot of lab coat and voiceover media “action” while human stories emerge in the...
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Contest - "Drive" Screening Passes
Drive is CRAZY! Drive is a mad mad film with big stars (Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks), big action, and big suspense. Lucky for your Philly Dorks there is a preview screening on Wednesday, September 14 at 7:30 PM at the Ritz East that you could be lucky enough to win tickets to.
All you have to do… is to Comment below (By Sunday September 11th) with your...
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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - 2nd Annual...
Do you love It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia?!? We Dorks do. And for just GOING OUT this weekend you can be lucky enough to win a free ticket to the Premiere party of the Century. Coors Light®, “The World’s Most Refreshing Beer,” will host a premiere screening party to kick off the new season of the FX comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the historic Trocadero Theatre in...
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Review: The Debt
Two Helen Mirren movies in under a week should be considered wildly fortunate for admirers of taut, no-nonsense acting of the first order. The problem arises when the subsequent film, The Debt, merely gives pause to fond remembrances of last week’s superior Mirren performance in Brighton Rock.
On paper, The Debt should blow Brighton’s doors off. Mossad agents, then and now, 30 years...
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Review: Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock has a lot going against it: The plot of The Town. A 31-year-old actor (Sam Riley) playing a teenager. A 1960s time-frame yet the song credits are devoid of identification with any particular era. An ending that adds an ironic humanity to the far colder conclusions in Graham Greene’s 1938 novel or the 1940s film adaptation he co-wrote. A heedless ignoring of much of...
