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Perfect Stranger
Dissapointing murder thriller.
Director: James Foley
Cast: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
By Three Monkeys
When the killer is finally revealed, at the end of this murder mystery, one character remarks "that's beautiful, that's fucking poetry". I could'nt think of two less appropriate terms for what's on offer. The dènoument, if one is prepared to call it that, could have just as easily been from one of those snide Hollywood parodies that crawl out periodically - 'and then I remembered how you said that your mother had a run down chemist shop where you could take anything you wanted without being noticed'. The end of the film provi...
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Juno
This season's 'cool' indie flick, with show-stealing performance by Ellen Page
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Perfect Stranger
Dissapointing murder thriller.
Director: James Foley
Cast: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
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This is England
Semi-Autobiographical film from Shane Meadows about the British Skinhead culture
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun
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Night at the Museum
Ben Stiller ventures into the 'family comedy' arena.
Director: Shawn Levy Cast: Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Carla Gugino, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan
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Chapter 27
Controversial recreation of John Lennon's murder, told from the perspective of Mark David Chapman.
Director: J. P. Schaefer Cast: Jared Leto, Lindsey Lohan
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The Prestige
Victorian mystery with stunning cast. Director:Christopher Nolan
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Scarlet Johannsen
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Alpha Dog
Based on a real life story of kidnapping and murder amongst californian teens.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Bruce Willis, Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone, Emile Hirsch, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Foster, Anton Yelchin
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The Weather Man
Director: Gore Verbinski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Gil Bellows, Gemmenne de la Peña,Nicholas Hoult,hope davis
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La Bestia nel Cuore
Director: Cristina Comencini. Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca, Angela Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Battiston, Luigi Lo Cascio, Francesca Inaudi.
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King Kong
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis
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Just Like Heaven
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Spybey
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The Family Stone
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton, Claire Danes, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Craig T. Nelson
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Munich
Director:Steven Spielberg
Cast: Erich Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds,
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The Constant Gardener
Film adaptation of John Le Carré's 2001 novel.
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Bill Nighy, Gerard McSorley, Danny Huston
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In Her Shoes
Film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's book, In Her Shoes.
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine, Mark Feuerstein
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Into the Blue
Diving thriller set in the Bahamas.Director: John Stockwell
Cast: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Dwayne Adway, Scott Caan, Ramon Saunders, Ashley Scott, James Frain, Chris Taloa
Genre: Action, Thriller
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Sin City
Film adaptation of 'classic' comic series Sin City by Frank Miller. Directed by Robert Rodriguez with the aid of Miller and Tarantino.
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Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
The final installment of George Lucas's Star Wars series. The eagerly awaited Revenge of the Sith brings us the answer to that oft pondered question: how did Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader?
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Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott returns to the historical epic, this time turning his attention to the Crusades. Starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons.
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Million Dollar Baby
Based on the book by F.X.O'Toole, Million Dollar Baby has been nominated in most of the major categories for the 2005 Oscars. Directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.
Articles from other 3monkeys sections
Lovely Seaside Girls. James Joyce’s Musical Interludes
Tom Brace takes a historical look at some of the music, and culture, that influenced Dublin writer James Joyce when writing his masterpiece Ulysses.
Dispelling the myth. The realities of organ trafficking. Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes in interview.
Forget about urban legends, and mysterious stories. There is a well documented trade in body organs, flowing from south to north. Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, of Organs Watch, has spent a number of years uncovering the systems that profits from the sale of human organs.
Sparkle of crimes in their voices - Aziz Chouaki and The Star of Algiers
Aziz Chouaki was forced by threats to leave his native Algeria. His novel, The Star of Algiers, portrays a society collapsing, with his central character caught between the 'sirens of the North, and the roots of the South'. It's a novel that tells us as much about the urban Islam developing throughout Europe, as it does Algeria's tragic recent history.
From Landscape to Manscape - Eduardo Chillida and Fuerteventura's Tindaya Mountain
It’s big; it’s a thumb-in-your eye assault on a virgin landscape, but is it art? Well, yes, it is actually, and that’s where the problem lies The late Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida envisaged creating a monumental hollowed out space in the heart of Mt. Tindaya, a project that would be his legacy. For years the project has been shelved due to controversy and ecological concerns. Now this Pharaonic project could bring economic salvation to Fuerteventura, in Spain's Canary Islands, but at what price?
Status Anxiety - an interview with Alain de Botton
The author who brought us How Proust can change your life and The Consolations of Philosophy, returns with a book examining the source of a very modern anxiety - Status.
Love in the time of Bossi-Fini. The real impact of immigration legislation in Italy
Behind the polemics and eye-catching headlines carelessly trotted out by the media on immigration, real people's lives are affected. Journalist Cristian Artoni has researched a number of different cases, ranging from the banal to the tragic, where the Italian legislation on immigration, the so-called Bossi-Fini law, has had an unmistakable impact.
Sexuality, Sin, and Sacrifice - Deconstructing the Patriarchy. An interview with Dr. Mary Condren
Dr. Mary Condren's ground-breaking work The Serpent and the Goddess(1989) examined the relationships between women, religion and power in Celtic Ireland. The themes brought up, though, are as relevant today as ever. In interview with TMO, Dr Condren discusses Church State relations, feminist history, and the gender politics of suicide bombing.
THE HEATHER BLAZING by Colm Tóibín - a review
Award winning novelist Gabrielle Warnock reviews Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing, for Three Monkeys Online.
Volver by Don Pedro from La Mancha
Pedro Almodóvar’s name is mentioned in intelectual circles among those who love Spanish cinematographic history beside the names of great directors such as Saura or Buñuel. In his last film, the internationally acclaimed Volver, the ilustrous man from La Mancha guides us on a fascinating walk along legend-filled streets of his childhood. He takes us through the austere La Mancha courtyards and he sorrounds us in the scent of fighting mothers, in the land that the great Cervantes already described in his Quixote. Like Cervante’s mad knight, the characters in Volver seem to have lost their marbles. “It is because of the wind Solano ” as the main character mentions, a dry wind that feeds everyday the everlasting mills and that, in one of the last scenes, drives the rubbish containers dancing through the desert streets.
Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu
There’s a recurrent phrase in Cristi Puiu’s most recent film, the significance of which will not immediately be obvious to viewers outside Romania. In this story of a retired and widowed engineer’s last hours there’s a small matter on which one doctor after another seeks clarification.
Viva Zapatero! – Towards a new type of information in Italy?
Viva Zapatero received a twelve minute standing ovation at the 2005 Venice film festival. It's been labelled Italy's Fahrenheit 9/11, as it is an explosive documentary. Satirist Sabina Guzzanti reacted to being forced into exile from the State Broadcaster RAI, by making a documentary investigating what satire means around Europe, and why Italian politicians are so frightened by it.
Filming the Occupation. Director Saverio Costanzo presents Private
The 2004 winner of the Pardo d'Oro(Golden Leopard) award at the Locarno International Film Festival was Private, and Italian produced and directed film set in the occupied territories. A psychodrama examining the dynamics of Occupation, with a cast of Palestinian and Israeli actors, filmed in Calabria, Italy, by the son of one of Italy's most famous TV presenters. Director Saverio Costanzo explains the genesis and realisation of this extraordinary film.
The Making of MirrorMask
When Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim Henson, approached Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean to make a fantasy film, in the style of Labyrinth, they jumped at the chance. Even though it involved making a film that would look like $40million on a budget of $4million. Gaiman and McKean explain how MirrorMask came to life.
Battling the Past - an encounter with Michael Cimino
No other director in the history of Hollywood has had such a sudden trajectory between fame and infamy. Three Monkeys Online encountered the legendary film-maker, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate recently in Bologna.
Cinegael Paradiso, The story of a second generation Irish film director. Robert Quinn in interview
Robert Quinn grew up in a cinema. Really. The son of a film-maker, Bob Quinn, who embarked on a mission to bring film-making to rural, gaelic speaking Ireland, Robert did in fact grow up in a Cinema which doubled as a family home. In the metaphoric sense, though, he has also grown up in the cinema, working his way up through the ranks of Irish film making. He is now an award winning director in his own right, and about to film the life story of Irish rock star Philip Lynott.
Quo Vadis, Salvatores?
Atypical heroines, parochialism, noir as a genre? All up for discussion with Oscar winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, on the release of his new film Quo Vadis, Baby?, a noir set in Three Monkeys Online's very own Bologna.
Eugene O'Neill, the Monkey, and Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody, Oscar winning star of The Piano was one of the stars Peter Jackson specifically wanted for his remake of King Kong. Speaking from the set in New Zealand, Brodey talks about the timeless appeal of the film, and the inspiration he found in Eugene O'Neill's work.
Moulding a Monster - Peter Jackson talks about King Kong
Scarcely five years ago people scoffed at the idea that The Lord of the Rings could be filmable, and succesful. After the critical and commercial success of TLOTRs, Director Peter Jackson has turned to another seemingly impossible task - re-making King Kong credibly. In interview he talks about his love of the original and the challenges of the upcoming remake.
Playing Fay Wray - Naomi Watts on the set of Peter Jackson's King Kong
One of cinema's most iconic moments has to be Fay Wray struggling in King Kong's fist. Stepping into her role, in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake of the classic is English actress Naomi Watts. It's a role quite unlike any of her other films, such as 21 Gramms or The Ring, as she tells John Millar in interview.
Identity correction - Yes Men style. Interview with Andy Bichlbaum.
The World Trade Organisation may not be the funniest transnational administrative body, but as a target for satire, in the hands of the Yes Men, it's tragically comic. Challenging unthinking assumptions about free trade and corporate responsibility, while making you laugh is their modus operandi, and it works! The film The Yes Men documents their adventures as they impersonate the WTO at conferences worldwide. Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men spoke to Three Monkeys Online to explain some of the method behind the madness.
The Corporation as a psychopath. Film-maker Jennifer Abbot in interview
A film on an economic and legal topic, that mixes interviews with Milton Friedman and Michael Moore, and has taken over $3 million at the box office. Sound improbable? Think again. The Corporation is one of the most talked about films around at the moment. One of the film's directors, Jennifer Abbott, talks to Three Monkeys Online.
Dogville - a review
No stranger to controversy, Lars Von Trier managed to whip up yet more when he set his last film Dogville in a fictional American town. Bill Quigley looks at the controversy, and, more importantly, the film.
Identity Crisis? Spiderman 2 a review.
What tangled web will he weave, and will he get the girl? More to the point, is it worth watching? Three Monkeys Online goes to see Spiderman, the sequel.
A set of moving paintings – Making The Bridge of San Luis Rey. An interview with Director Mary McGuckian.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, is the eagerly awaited film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer prize winning novel. Tony Blair quoted it in the memorial for September 11th victims, and it has taken on a new resonance, but Irish Director Mary McGuckian has been fascinated by the book for over Ten years. She talks to Three Monkeys Online in an extensive interview.
Political Tragedy. The Navigators by Ken Loach
Ken Loach's film The Navigators recently got an open air screening as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. How does an Italian audience react to a film about British Rail privatisation?
Master and Commander. Peter Weir and the filming of Master and Commander, the far side of the world.
Australian Director Peter Weir recently opened the Cinema Ritrovato film festival, and took some time out to talk about the filming of his latest film Master and Commander.
Berlusconi's Mousetrap - an interview with Eamonn Crudden
Indymedia film-maker, Eamonn Crudden, along with a multitude of others, shot footage at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001. In the wake of the dramatic events there, including widespread police brutality on a scale unimaginable in a western democracy, he put together the film Berlusconi's Mousetrap. Robert Looby spoke to Crudden for Three Monkeys Online.
Bloom
Sean Walsh has attempted, what for many remains impossible, to film Joyce's novel Ulysses. Mark Harkin spoke to the director for Three Monkeys Online.
Holy Cross - The Dilemmas of docudrama
Holy Cross is a BBC docudrama, directed by Mark Brozel, focussing on events that occured outside Holy Cross school in Northern Ireland in 2001. In interview with Three Monkeys Online magazine, Director Mark Brozel talks about the process of making the film.
The Passion And The Propaganda. Mel Gibson And The Passion Of The Christ
A film about Jesus, in Aramaic? Directed by Mad Max Mel Gibson? Many were sceptical of his sanity, but box office returns have shown shrewd business sense. Yet the debate rages about the ideological content of the film. Marie Sandland looked at the evidence for Three Monkeys Online.
The Lord of the Rings - A Christian allegory??
The Lord of the Rings continues to endure, as shown by the massive success of The Return of the King. Brendan McManus S.J sees a strong Christian allegory running through Tolkien's masterpiece
2001 - A retrospective
Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey
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