Upper East Side Film

Insightful Perspectives on Upper East Side Movies

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

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The original Swedish "Millennium Trilogy" films have reached their conclusion. What started out in "Dragon Tattoo" as a ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Devil

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A smart marketing campaign tells you this film is "from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" so of course you are mildly interested si...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

RED

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Not a documentary about an music distribution company (although that would probably make a fun film), but rather a silly, over the top but...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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Michael Douglas reprises his role as Gordon Gekko in this entertaining sequel. While his name is above the credits, his role is s...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Let Me In

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A Hollywood remake that actually gets it right and is as good or possibly even better than the original, "Let The Right One In...
Saturday, October 02, 2010

The Social Network

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Timely and relevant, "The Social Network" really does define a generation. Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron ...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Town

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Ben Affleck is developing a nice second career as a director. "The Town" doesn't have quite the character development of ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife 3-D

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If you are a fan of this seemingly endless series, then you will make it your business to go. If not, stay as far from this wort...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Who is Harry Nilsson (and why is everyone talking about him)?

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Many people know the songs (Without You, Everybody's Talking, Coconut, One, Me And My Arrow, etc...) but not everyone knows the name...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Machete

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Based on his fake trailer, writer/director Robert Rodriguez crafts a film filled with mayhem, violence, girls with guns, nudity, explo...

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (Part Two)

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The French crime epic "Mesrine" has been split into two separate films here in the U.S. but I'm not sure how it played...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Part One)

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Part one of a two part epic, this crime drama plays like a French "Scarface" as it charts the rise of Jacques Mesrine, a no...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Animal Kingdom

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Writer/director David Michod's first feature film is a nasty piece of business imported from Australia. Guy Pearce is the only ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

Middlemen

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Luke Wilson shines in an otherwise annoying film about the introduction of "porn for pay" on the Internet. The story is "I...

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

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What easily might be misinterpreted as another "torture porn" film in the vein of "Saw" or "Hostel" is ac...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Get Low

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Not a lot happens in this backwoods tale of an old hermit who decides to throw himself a funeral before he dies but it's still wor...
Monday, August 02, 2010

Salt

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It's been hard to escape the advertising for this film. Everywhere you go, you see these huge billboards asking the question, "...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Restrepo

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This award winning documentary from Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington is a harrowing journey that puts you smack into a year in the ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

The Kids Are Alright

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It's entertaining to watch five good actors playing a very dysfunctional family but the novelty of this nuclear family having gay pa...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Inception

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Writer/Director Christopher Nolan is back in full brain twisting mode after giving us the thrill of "The Dark Knight". He c...
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