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Superman Returns (2006)

You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly Again!

Filmmaker(s): Bryan Singer

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

21 Jan Superman Returns (2006)

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Weakened Whether one likes this movie will be a matter of religion, I suppose. And within that choice will be the question of how cheaply your religious notions can be bought. For me, a summer movie needs to first provide sweep, spectacle, thrill. It needs...

Published January 21, 2024

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Blood Tea and String (2006)

Filmmaker(s): Christiane Cegavske

Animation

Fantasy

Thriller

The aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak battle over the doll of their heart's desire.

21 Jan Blood Tea and String (2006)

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Alice’s Rosencrantz I saw this on Christmas Day and was rather thankful. 2006 has been a bad year for movies and at the end of each year I start to put together my additions to my short list of films everyone should watch before they die...

Published January 21, 2024

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Black Snake Moan (2006)

Everything is hotter down south.

Filmmaker(s): Craig Brewer

Drama

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

19 Jan Black Snake Moan (2006)

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Too Costly films cost the viewer something. We have to relinquish certain core parts of ourselves in a negotiation with the filmmaker, as a contract to collaborate with him/her in a shared adventure. Never, ever is this cost slight; in fact the ability to place...

Published January 19, 2024

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Ballerina (2006)

An intimate portrait of five ballerinas from the Kirov.

Filmmaker(s): Bertrand Normand

Documentary

Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.

16 May Ballerina (2006)

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Control are no films like dance films. Dance is one of the few things that is inherently cinematic, especially when the camera moves, perhaps with energy. Ballet on the other hand is not friendly to film, at least the classical Russian model. The choreography is designed...

Published May 16, 2023

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As You Like It (2006)

Romance...or something like it.

Filmmaker(s): Kenneth Branagh

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.

16 May As You Like It (2006)

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Katachi Words one of the most intriguing challenges in all the lands of imagination. Shakespeare invented much of what it means to be a modern human. But he did so in a very constrained way of communicating. The plays were all about language and geometry on...

Published May 16, 2023

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The Illusionist (2006)

Nothing is what it seems

Filmmaker(s): Neil Burger

With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

13 May The Illusionist (2006)

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Flight Club know what's coming with this and we even know how. At least I think most viewers will. It is a con movie, but with more explicit folding. In the usual con genre, there is a mark who is fooled along with us the viewers....

Published May 13, 2022

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American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)

This Summer It's All About Sticking Together.

Filmmaker(s): J.B. Rogers

Comedy

Romance

After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.

26 Mar American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)

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A Little Humour I was surprised at finding something clever. Yes, most of this is a stroll through a museum of obsolete 7th grade hummer. This is so tame and lame that it blends into the background like so much graffiti. The “nudity” is goofy. But...

Published March 26, 2023

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All the King’s Men (2006)

Time brings all things to light.

Filmmaker(s): Steven Zaillian

Drama

Thriller

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

08 Mar All the King’s Men (2006)

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Lucy in the Sky critics hated it. The public stayed home. But I liked this. A lot. It is cinematic. Powerful cinema. And I am telling you I liked this with a bit of surprise on my part. That's because it has two actors who often...

Published March 8, 2023

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Klimt (2006)

Filmmaker(s): Raúl Ruiz

Drama

Romance

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

02 Mar Klimt (2006)

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Wittgenstein’s Gaudi Chapel the world relaxed and enjoyed itself between wars. When art was a solitary and experimental endeavour. When Europeans rediscovered the power of nature in sex and in some cases the other way around. When lives really could be deep, and debauched and...

Published March 2, 2023

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A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Everything is not going to be OK.

Filmmaker(s): Richard Linklater

Animation

Science Fiction

Thriller

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

25 Dec A Scanner Darkly (2006)

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Hazed and Dumfused Life” was simply dumb, a collection of clever ideas or various forms ill handled. Though it was adventurous in a couple ways, it lacked the edge it could have had. So instead of changing the lives of a few people, it entertainingly...

Published December 25, 2022

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