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2008 Viewings

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Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging B (AL)

Australia D+ (AL)

The Baader Meinhof Complex C (AL)

The Bank Job C+ (AL)

Body of Lies A- (AL)

Burn After Reading C- (AL)

Changeling B (AL)

Che: Part One D+ (AL)

Cloverfield C+ (AL) A+ (ME)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button D (AL)

The Dark Knight B- (AL) B+ (ME)

Death Race D+ (AL)

Defiance D (AL)

Donkey Punch F (AL)

Doubt B+(AL)

Eagle Eye D (AL)

Easy Virtue D (AL)

Elegy A (AL)

The Fall A- (AL)

The Forbidden Kingdom D- (AL)

Frost/Nixon A- (AL)

Frozen River B (AL)

Get Smart D (AL)

Ghost Town B+ (AL)

Gomorrah B (AL)

Hancock A- (AL) B+ (ME)

Happy-Go-Lucky B+(AL)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army A- (AL)

In Bruges D- (AL)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull B- (AL)

I've Loved You So Long A (AL)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (3D) F (AL)

Lakeview Terrace B- (AL)

Let the Right One In B- (AL)

Mamma Mia! D (AL)

Man on Wire B+(AL)

Married Life B- (AL)

Milk B (AL)

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist C- (AL)

The Orphanage B- (ME)

Pineapple Express D- (AL)

Pride and Glory D (AL)

OSS117: Cairo - Nest of Spies D+ (AL)

Quantum of Solace C+ (AL)

Quarantine B- (AL)

Rambo D+ (AL)

The Reader D+ (AL)

[Rec] A (AL) A+ (ME)

Redbelt C (AL)

Revolutionary Road A (AL)

Role Models B (AL)

Sex and the City B+ (AL)

Shine a Light A (AL)

Slumdog Millionaire B+ (AL)

Taken C+ (AL)

Teeth B+ (AL)

Tropic Thunder B (AL)

Twilight B+ (AL)

Valkyrie C- (AL)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona A+ (AL)

The Visitor A- (AL)

The Wackness B- (AL)

Wall*E B+ (AL)

Wanted C+ (AL)

Wendy and Lucy C+ (AL)

What Happened in Vegas B- (ME)

The Wrestler A (AL)

 

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Blades of Glory

USA, 2007

Director:

Josh Gordon, Will Speck

Starring:

Will Ferrell
Jon Heder
Will Arnett
Jenna Fischer

Matt: -

Adam: C+

   

 

A Will Ferrell movie that's actually quite funny? You thought it impossible but think again. This isn't dynamite but it's a solid sports comedy in the vein of the superior Dodgeball. The cast includes Ferrell, Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), and the hilarious Will Arnett of Arrested Development fame . Whilst Matt and I disagree on films quite a bit, we are almost always completely in synch on sitcoms, and Arrested Development is the best thing we've seen in ages. Maybe ever. A big reason for that lofty status is the brilliance of Arnett whose GOB Bluth is one of the best sitcom characters of all time.

'Blades' could perhaps have done with more of Will, he's a little wasted in truth, but there are some funny moments and the economical running time serves it well. Jenna Fischer of the US version of The Office (also terrific, trust me) also appears.

AL