Reviews
and compilation by John Ginn
Once Upon a Time, I tried to provide synopses of all movies
released in a week. In the end, it was far too
time-consuming to continue doing so. Besides which, I am
most interested in supporting the work of independent
theater owners, so that is where I have put my efforts.
Sometimes, I will just run the studio synopsis, but most of
the synopses will have been reworked by me into something
less studio-hypey. Yes, that’s a word now.
Support your local independent theater owner! Look for the
red star ✭
for movies playing at an independent movie
theater.
Opening This Week
- October 10
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City of Ember — Pix Theater
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I Served the King of England — Darkside Cinema
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Igor — Star Cinema and Kuhn Cinema
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Eagle Eye — Fox Theater
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Slap Shot —
The Darkside’s month-long tribute to Paul Newman continues
with this hilarious, and profanity laden, look at
professional sports. When a backwater hockey team sees its
attendance dropping due to economic hard times, their
crafty, grizzled coach (Paul Newman) is faced with
management’s decision to hire the psychotic Hansen
brothers, whose violent antics on the ice begin to draw the
crowds back, but at the risk of destroying the team.
Darkside Cinema
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At the Motor Vu Drive-in: Igor with
Lakeview Terrace (Double Feature, Weekend only)
Motor Vue Drive-in
Continuing
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Encounters at the End of the World — Werner Herzog, documentarian
extraordinaire, travels to Antarctica to find out what
drives the men and women living and working at the bottom
of the world do what they do. Salem Cinema
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The Singing Revolution — The Singing Revolution
tells the story of a dark
time in Estonian history. Beginning in 1939 with an
invasion by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany in 1941,
and again by The Soviets at the close of World War II, for
more than 50 years the Estonian people lived through mass
executions, deportation, banishment to the Siberian Gulags,
and absolute control of all forms of self-expression. Yet
the national identity of Estonians somehow survived
largely, the film contends, through the Estonian peoples'
love of singing.
(FULL REVIEW) Darkside Cinema
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Tell No One — Take a
large dollop of standard Hollywood fare — murder mystery,
chase thriller and romantic tragedy — mix with a generous
dash of Hitchcock’s favorite “wrong man” scenario and
mellow it with a modest budget and a more “real-worldly”
European sensibility and you have Tell
No One, an
entertaining, if occasionally overly convoluted, night at
the movies. (FULL
REVIEW) Darkside Cinema and Salem Cinema
Movie
Reviews
Listed Alphabetically
A
• After Life
• Anchorman
B
• Bad
Education
• Beauty and the
Bus
• Black Mama, White
Mama
C
• Cabin Fever
• Constantine
D
• Dog Soldiers
E
•
Eastern
Promises
G
•
The 40 Year Old
Virgin
• The Ghost of
Slumber Mountain
• Go Further
• The Grand
Dame
• Gunner
Palace
H
•
Hercules (TV
2005)
•
Halloween
(2007)
• Home is Where the
Heart Is
• Hostage
• Hotel Rwanda
• Hustle &
Flow
J
•
The Invisible
Boy
• Invisible
Invaders
• Just Married
K
•
King Corn
• Kung Fu
Hustle
L
• London After
Midnight
M
•
M. Hulot's
Holiday
• The
Machinist
• Missile to the
Moon
• Mortuary
N
•
'Neath Arizona
Skies
• Neil Young: Heart of
Gold
O
•
Off The Map
• Oldboy
• Ong-Bak: The Thai
Warrior
•
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob
Dylan
P
•
Python
R
•
Red Eye
• Room 6
• The Royal
Rodeo
S
•
The Sea
Inside
• The Singing
Revolution
• Shadow of
Afghanistan
• Sky Blue
• Soigne Ton
Gauche
• Spike
& Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival
(2005)
• Supergator
T
•
Tell No One
• 'Tis
Autumn: The Search for Jackie
Paris
•
Travellers and
Magicians
V
•
The Valet
W
•
Webs
• What's Up, Tiger
Lily?
• The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz (1910)
• The World,
The Flesh, and The Devil