| U Turn |
"U Turn" is best described as a contemporary Western film noir. It takes place in the tiny, dusty, sun-drenched Superior, Arizona, a ramshackle town about fifty miles from nowhere. Bobby Cooper (Sean ...
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| U-571 [DVD] |
In "U-571," Matthew McConaughey plays Lt. Andrew Tyler, a young, determined Naval officer who is upset that he has not been commissioned as a full captain to lead his own submarine. When he ...
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| Ugetsu [DVD] |
Although he had been making films since the 1920s, Mizoguchi garnered most of his acclaim in the 1950s, when he made a series of historical dramas that helped define post-war Japanese cinema. Among ...
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| Ulee's Gold |
Actually, he is alone in more than his work. Life's hardships have toughened him, and made him draw back from human contact. He rarely communicates with his son, Jimmy (Tom Wood), who is in jail for ...
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| Umberto D. [DVD] |
Film scholar and critic André Bazin captured perfectly the essence of Italian neorealism when he described it as “an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental ...
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| Unbreakable [Blu-Ray] |
However, what I find infinitely more interesting is the thematic similarities between the two films. Both are ultimately about people who are forced to come to terms with an unusual gift that is ...
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| Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) [DVD] |
Pioneering French writer/director René Clair was always a great populist. He believed that motion pictures should be a popular art form and that they should reflect the lives of the public. He ...
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| Under the Volcano [DVD] |
In the simplest terms, John Huston's Under the Volcano is the story of a drunk on the last day of his life. Huston gives us a brief, but crucially symbolic shot in the opening moments in ...
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| Undercover Brother |
Those platform shoes! Those silk shirts with the four-foot collars! That denim jacket! Those bellbottoms! That afro! ...
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| Underworld [DVD] |
Although not explicitly set in Chicago, the story for Underworld was originally concocted by Chicago journalist-turned-screenwriter Ben Hecht, who derived some of his ideas from the Cicero ...
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| Underworld: Evolution |
The story is once again set in the cold, crumbling confines of an unnamed portion of Eastern Europe, and the protagonist is once again Selene (Kate Beckinsale), a sexy-lithe vampire assassin whose ...
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| Unfaithful |
Following the immense difficulties of getting his last film, the beautifully provocative and unfairly maligned adaptation of Lolita (1997), distributed, it has been five years since Adrian ...
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| Unfaithfully Yours [DVD] |
Yet, in a sense, what the film is really about is art -- more specifically, the pomposity of those who claim to make it. Sturges himself was a great artist, but he was first and foremost a great ...
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| United 93 |
This, more than anything, sums up the experience of watching United 93, Paul Greengrass’s harrowing, emotionally devastating, documentary-like recreation of the events the transpired on ...
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| Untamed Heart |
When we first meet Adam (Christian Slater) he is a young boy living in an orphanage. Since birth he has had heart problems, and the head nun (Claudia Wilkens) tells him a story about how his father ...
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| Untraceable |
Diane Lane stars as Jennifer Marsh, a CIA agent who works in the cybercrimes division. She and her partner, the amiable nerd Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks), know all the tricks cybercriminals use to ...
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| Up Close and Personal |
Like 1987's "Broadcast News," "Up Close and Personal" is about people who are obsessed with making television news. In all the scenes dealing with the business, there is a fierce sense of urgency ...
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| Up in the Air |
It doesn’t hurt that Reitman is working with George Clooney, who more so than any other actor working today is able to combine the old-world style and charm of classic Hollywood stars with the ...
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| Up [Blu-Ray] |
The film begins in a movie theater in the 1930s with a wide-eyed young boy named Carl (Jeremy Leary), who dreams of a future life of adventure, avidly watching a newsreel about the famed explorer ...
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