Feeling Mini-Dakota

As part of the publicity for Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (which we’ll have a couple reviews of tomorrow), Dakota Fanning recently came to town for interviews and promotion.  December & I sat in on a round table interview with her, which was a little surreal for me.  In movies, Fanning has this kind of precociousness and adult quality that’s mighty disconcerting coming from an 11 year old.  In real life, however, she acted like any other 11 year old girl (albeit one with one seriously bad-ass hobby.)  While she might not have the storied history or press ready banter of a seasoned actor, she makes up for that by being just genuinely upbeat and enthusiastic. 

Note: Since this was a round table interview, the questions all came from different journalists and critics.  See if you can guess which ones we asked….

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Heads You Win, Tails You Die

  • Title: Domino
  • IMDb: link

What an entertaining ride.  Although rather messy and with more than a couple of flaws, Domino delivers one of the most enjoyable and watchable films this year.  Comparison to Tarantino’s Kill Bill are probably inevitable, but this is a far superior film with actual heart.  And damn, is it fun!!

Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) is a glamour girl with a thirst for violence turned bounty hunter.  As the film opens Domino is in custody telling FBI Agent Taryn Miles (Lucy Liu) discussing what went wrong and landed her handcuffed in the interrogation room.  Something horrible happened on the last bounty and the movie is a series of flashbacks inter-cut with Knightley telling her story and finding her own understanding of what happened out in the desert.

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Waiting…

  • Title: Waiting…
  • IMDb: link

Is Waiting… great cinema?  Well no, but it’s damn funny.  A perfect vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, with some wonderful supporting performances, in much the same vein of his title role in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder.  A nice little comedy that’s well worth checking out.

Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is the coolest guy at Shenanigan’s, an Applebee’s style restaurant.  His co-workers include best friend Dean (Justin Long) who is agonizing over the state of his life, out spoken waitress Serena (Anna Faris ), timid Amy (Kaitlin Doubleday), and Naomi (Alanna Ubach ) who’s one bad tipper away from some serious carnage.  We’ve also got the dorky manager Dan (David Koechner), jail-bait hostess Natasha (Vanessa Lengies), crazy chef Raddimus (Luis Guzman), the grill guru Bishop (Chi McBride), and new trainee Mitch (John Francis Daley).

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Whedon Week Recap

Here are all the links to RazorFine’s first ever theme week which celebrated the the crazy worlds and ‘verses from BtVS and Angel to the soaring Friefly and Serenity all from the mad mind of Joss Whedon (seen here with the lovely and talented Amy Acker).  Hope you had as much fun as we did!  Full list of links inside the Full Diagnosis.

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Enjoy all the BtVS/Angel/Firefly review goodness!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season One

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Two

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Three

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Four

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Five

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Six

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Seven

Angel Season One

Angel Season Two

Angel Season Three

Angel Season Four

Angel Season Five

Firefly: The Complete Series

Serenity

 

 

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