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Charlie Wilson's War, by Beatriz Oria |
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Baddies will be baddies
Charlie Wilson’s War (Mike Nichols, 2007)
Beatriz Oria
 Charlie
Wilson’s War is quite
an uncommon product in terms of its Hollywood-like manufacture. The political
critique that it tries to deliver is indeed an unusual occurrence nowadays,
especially, taking into account its origin. Only because of this, I think it is
worth seeing. Mike Nichols’s film features A-list stars and it surely has
cost big bucks to get made. You can see there is money here. It is not some
indie director with a camera trying to denounce war’s hidden motivations.
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Perfect Creature, By Sylvia Solé |
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Blood Donation, Unlimited
Perfect Creature (Glen Standring, 2006)
Sylvia Solé  Let it be said: I hate vampire films. I will gladly make an exception
for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Coppola, 1992), but the great majority
of bloodsucker flicks - especially the newfangled action kind - are just too boring for words. It is as if the idea of centuries-old creatures incited
screenwriters to indulge in centuries-old cliches about love, lust and death - not to mention ransacking Nosferatu's (Murnau, 1922) iconic visuals for
yet another cheap thrill.
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‘Cinema, Culture and Society’ is a group of university lecturers and graduate students based at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. We are committed to the academic research of film as a cultural phenomenon. We focus on the cinema of English-speaking countries with special attention to U.S. and British cinema.
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