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www.filmchannel1.com Hotshots Movie Reviews THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS is based on the 2005 nonfiction book by Jon Ronson, and it is a comedic look at real-life events about a top-secret branch of an experimental US Army unit called the New Earth Battalion, which was created to change the way that wars are fought. As the film says at one point, the Army was investigating how love and gentleness could win wars, and a notice at the beginning of the film says, "More of this is true than you ...

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www.filmchannel1.com A SERIOUS MAN is the latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen, who write their films together, direct them together, edit them together, and finally share their awards together, which this film is likely to win more for them. Ostensibly it is a comedy, because it contains many laughs even into the closing credits, but it also contains serious themes that can cause the audience to think about it long after the last laugh has burst forth. After all, any film that mentions ...

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www.filmchannel1.com AMELIA is the story of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to perform a number of flying accomplishments in the Twenties and Thirties, and she is played stunningly by two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. Unfortunately, if the film were a jet airplane, it would have to be called a flameout, whereas everyone involved with it and many in the audience were hoping that it would soar to wonderful and exiting heights. Part of the reason is that we know how the story ends ...

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www.filmchannel1.com LAW ABIDING CITIZEN is a thriller with a theme about revenge, it has good execution, fine special effects, but a lousy ending that doesn't satisfy what has gone before it as much as it seems to be tacked on just to please the sensibilities of certain audiences. However, knowing Hollywood, don't be surprised if the inevitable DVD of the film comes out with the obligatory "alternate ending" which should have been the one released into theaters in the first place. Gerard ...

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www.filmchannel1.com THE INVENTION OF LYING is a delightful little film that examines how life would be boring if everybody told the truth all the time and how life would be so much more interesting if we just bent the truth in small ways or in large. Yes, it is a romantic comedy with social overtones. Ricky Gervais plays Mark, and he is going to have the distinction of telling the world's first lie when he is put in a situation in which he realizes that he could improve his circumstances if ...

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www.filmchannel1.com SURROGATES is a classy looking science-fiction thriller starring Bruce Willis, and the first thing you are going to notice is all the weird-looking blond hair he has. No, wait! That isn't Willis's character with all the hair. That is his surrogate, a realistic android that most people use to go out into society in place of them while the owners stay at home in a room hooked up to a device that allows them to be the "operators," the eyes, ears, mouth, and flesh of their ...

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www.filmchannel1.com THE INFORMANT! is based on the true story of a whistle-blower in a giant corporation about an international price-fixing scheme, but it is much more than that. It's also a lough-out-loud comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh, who previously directed the 2000 ERIN BROKOVICH in all seriousness, but also directed the recent OCEAN'S movies as goofy crime capers. Matt Damon stars as Mark "Corky" Whitacre, a high-level executive in Archer Daniels Midland, an Illinois-based ...

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www.filmchannel1.com THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE is an excellent documentary about the making of the September 2007 issue of VOGUE magazine and its legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, said to be the inspiration for the Meryl Streep character in the 2006 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Wintour is called the single most important figure in the $300 billion fashion industry. That is a lot of dresses, shoes, accessories, makeup, a lot of woman, and by that I don't mean Wintour, but all the women all over the ...

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www.filmchannel1.com THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD is one of those movies that get talked about more than seen, which is a shame, because it is well worth your time, trouble, and money. It just won't win any awards for quality or be on anyone's list of the best films of 2009 or any year. Of course, this means that it will do bang-up business when it comes out on DVD. Jeremy Pivens stars as Don "The Goods" Ready, and so the title can refer to him just as easily as it can to the concept of ...

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www.filmchannel1.com THE BROTHERS BLOOM is one of those movies that feel better to talk about than to actually see. By that, I mean that it has very good ingredients, but when they are all mixed together, you can end up feeling cheated, because you didn't enjoy it as much as you thought you would. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, whose first film was the much- acclaimed 2006 BRICK, this film is about two brothers who have been con artists all their lives. The film begins when they are ...

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