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  Movie Station - Ultimate Movie Guide
AP - Movie pirates are spraying chemicals on their bootleg DVDs to confuse two U.S.-loaned dogs who this month helped Malaysian authorities sniff out nearly 1 million illegal discs, an official said Monday.
The talking reptiles are resurrected in CGI form to protect New York City from an onslaught of monsters and a collector (voiced by Patrick Stewart) gripped by an ancient curse.
Leonardo DiCaprio's recent proud announcement to a billion movie fans that the Oscars had 'gone green' had to be one of the most unnecessary boasts since George Chuvalo bragged about being able to take a punch.
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  Romance Movie Clichés
There are two types of romances: those with the leads meeting and falling in love early in the flick, and those that don't fall for each other until the end.
Every romance movie I've ever seen where two characters are in bed together depicts the woman with the blanket seductively pulled up to her armpits while the man bares his chest to his belly button for all to see.
If the hero of the movie is a fat or relatively unattractive man, movie law dictates that some reasonably attractive woman must fall for him by the end of the film due to his "charm" and "sense of humor" which is total "B.S.".
www.mutantreviewers.com /rromancecliches.html   (2220 words)

  
 Movie Reviews Net » Romance
The general plot of Just Friends is this: A fat kid named Chris is in love with his friend Jamie, but she just wants to be friends, so he moves to L.A., loses the weight and becomes a successful womanizing music executive.
The movie is stunning like you would expect it to be with its scenery, costumes and make-up, but it’s also somewhat frustrating.
The movie takes place in Wyoming in the summer of 1963, where the two men meet up while working together on a sheep ranch.
www.moviereviewsnet.com /category/romance   (3711 words)

  
 Romance - Movie Review
A dark character study of a beautiful, insecure young woman named Marie (Caroline Ducey) whose self-respect is shattered when her boyfriend loses interest in sex, the core idea here is a intriguing one -- the deep exploration of the natural feminine need to feel desired, gone very wrong.
After a final, humiliating stab at trying to arouse her lover (Sagamore Stevenin), Marie shames herself into a hateful downward spiral, turning to anonymous sex with strangers, then to S&M, and finally to fulfilled rape fantasies, all in a passionless and frequently graphic (even pornographic) attempt to force herself into sexual indifference.
While Ducey's performance is powerful (the rest of the characters are vulgar one-note sketches), it's almost impossible to watch this movie without wondering what is wrong with an actress who would degrade herself like this for a role (having violent, objectified, on-screen sex, for one thing).
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/romance_1   (456 words)

  
 Romance - Movie Reviews Blog
As the movie progresses you of course learn that there’s more to her than meets the eye and the usual tragic sort of history that would turn a person into that.
The movie does have its moments of objective comedy, such as a few jabs at classic “ghost” movies such as The Exorcist and Ghostbusters.
The end of the movie seems to have been placed as a matter of convenience and not as a matter of plot: it could have conceivably been placed anywhere within the last 40 minutes of the film.
www.filmsy.com /movie/romance   (6171 words)

  
 True Romance Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Though True Romance is about call girls, a major drug deal, and just who the Sicilians' ancestors are, it is ultimately what the title implies — a romance.
The love between Clarence (Christian Slater) and Alabama (Patricia Arquette) may not be the standard fare viewers are used to — she's a call girl who cries, "That is so romantic!" after finding out her boyfriend has killed her pimp — but their affection for one another is palpable and involving.
Apparently neither had seen the movie for quite a while and they seem content mostly to watch it rather than comment on it, though it's interesting when Arquette talks about her character research for Alabama.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=6971   (1110 words)

  
 Cloud of Romance
When Qiong Yao (QY) finally decided to found her own Superstar Inc. to make her own movies, "Cloud of Romance" was the first one they produced out of their 13 QY adaptations, which IMHO was also the best one among all.
It is certainly one of my favorite TW 70s Romance movies, starring the three megastars, Brigitte Lin, Charlie Chin and Chin Han.
This is the only romance movie that cast three stars out of the "Two Lins, Two Chins".
www.geocities.com /qxl_charliechin/movie_cloud_romance.html   (1280 words)

  
 Get Up to Date Information and Resources about Romance Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There were about a thousand people around them and it was a sad scene, the last scene of the movie," her rep, Ciara Parkes...
Louisville Courier-Journal - Don't Move," an Italian romance starring Penelope Cruz; "Road House," the 1989 movie that featured pretty boy Patrick Swayze as the bouncer of the Double Deuce Club with Kelly Lynch as the town doctor; and "Pee-Wee Herman -- Live at the Roxy...
acceptance of romance counseling, Feinstein says she has seen a major uptick in her male clientele in the past year.
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 Romance & Cigarettes - Movie
ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES is the new project from actor, writer and director JOHN TURTURRO.
Set in contemporary America, ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES is a modern day musical, a dark and passionate comedy which tells the story of one man's journey into infidelity and redemption.
Romance and Cigarettes for Kate Variety reports that Kate is set to star in the 'dark musical' with James Gandolfini and Susan Surandon.
www.discoverkate.com /movies/romance-cigarettes   (774 words)

  
 Romance (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Romance achieved a lot of attention in Australia as it was initially banned.
Basically you have several hard-ons and a bit of bondage in the middle of a talky French art-house movie.
The fundamental problem with Romance is we can never understand what Marie sees in Paul.
us.imdb.com /Title?0194314   (410 words)

  
 The Romance Reader's Favorite Movies
It is a fictionalized retelling of the romance between Sophie Dorothea, neglected wife of the Elector of Hanover (played by the late Joan Greenwood), soon to be George I, and Konigsmark, a young Swedish soldier who truly loves her.
It was the quintessential 19th century romance, and this was the quintessential late 20th century romance.
Romance writer (Shelley Long) tries to get girlfriend for recently ill brother (Steve Guttenberg) by coaching him to be what women want - the result is Lobo, NZ bike rider.
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 Flipside Movie Emporium: True Romance Movie Review
I persist in believing there's a good movie in all that mess, if some canny editor had the chance to trim it down to size.
Whenever a movie tries to be cool (see Tarantino's imitators), it's almost always trying too goddamned hard.
Other gangster movies fail because they are about the gun, the heist, the betrayals.
www.flipsidemovies.com /trueromance.html   (1421 words)

  
 The Best Movie of 2005 - Romance Movies
For the best romantic film of 2005, I finally narrowed down the choices to a top three: "The Upside of Anger," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Yes." I was surprised by the combination that I ended up with; all three films are dramas and only one of them has received massive amounts of attention.
The movie is beautiful, hauntingly sad, and offers a powerful lesson to those who have ever denied loving someone.
The movie is about the wife of a politician and her lover.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art39677.asp   (385 words)

  
 Movie True Romance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Movie sounds, movie wavs, movie quotes, movie sound clips, and movie sound bytes from the movie True Romance.
The True Romance Movie Mall provides all fans of this film with a one-stop shop for all their movie-related needs.
Wow, in True Romance, she is too cute by a factor of...
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 Romance movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Romance when the fiancè maudlin Paul de Marie rejects to hook to sexual relations, they force it to look for for privacy beyond the limits of traditional...
The true Romance is really part of a loose trilogy that includes the fiction of the dogs and the pulp of the deposit...
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 Top 10 Romance Movie News | Top 10 Romance Movie Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Movie article july 22 24 box office top 10.
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 Romance movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Scott directed the superior weapon, so true boiling of the Romance down to the superior weapon with cojones, blood, the sweat, dirty jokes, Elvis Presley and a coat completely of borbón.
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 The Romance Reader
Romance Is Still in the Ear (No, that is not a typo!
Romance readers are mourning the death of Kathleen Woodiwiss who passed away July 6 after a long illness.
Romance fans know that it's nearly impossible to find reliable information about romance -- despite the fact that millions of romances are sold each year.
www.theromancereader.com   (379 words)

  
 Romance Movie Reviews Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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On one level, it was a device to pull the story along and on another, it was symbolic of a lost innocence of the kind that A E Housman was referring to in A Shropshire Lad.
www.cinema-nation.com /romance-movie-reviews.html   (826 words)

  
 Romance Movies. Romance Movie Downloads.
The story lines of romance movies typically center around the beginning, obstruction and eventual, though often tragic, fruition of romantic love.
In particular, adventure movies, thriller movies, and even war movies often contain elements of romance.
Perhaps the most famous romance movie of all is "Casablanca" where Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a bitter and cynical man following the end of an affair with Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), meets Ilsa again in Casablanca.
www.eztakes.com /store/genres/Romance-Movies.jsp   (636 words)

  
 Romance Movie - ... - mychemicalromancehelena.motorcyclebattery.be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Movie reviews can be written by any reader, and Romance movie discussion is encouraged.
Romance Movie Reviews (highest rated movies listed first) Title Rating MPAA Release Additional Genres Age of Innocence, The 4 PG 1993 Badlands 4 PG 1974 Suspense Body Heat 4 R 1981 Suspense Casablanca 4 PG 1943 Suspense...
Brokeback Mountain, the film about a romance between two American cowboys, is currently sweeping the US awards circuit, taking critics' prizes for best movie.
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 True Romance Movie: True Romance DVD is available from Bestprices.com
When inexperienced call girl Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) is paid to seduce comic-book-nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), she doesn’t expect to fall for him.
When a pair of unlikely newlyweds stumble across a cache of cocaine and try to sell it to a movie producer, the cops and the mob aren't far behind, in a darkly humorous caricature of the drug war.
Billed as a "Bonnie and Clyde for the 1990s," the protagonists (Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette) are actually the most innocent characters in a film populated by thugs and hypocrites.
www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/085392279623IE?source=InktomiDVD   (651 words)

  
 Murphy's Romance DVD at Video Universe
Though this sounds like a set-up from any number of other film romances, it becomes clear from their first meeting that the director, Martin Ritt, is more interested in his carefully observed setting, and in the comic flirtations between Murphy and Emma flirtations, than in making a conventional picture.
Of course, there is some drama and confrontation, but the focus remains on the setting and the relationship between Murphy and Emma, whose lengthy romance is the clear mark of one of the most highly enjoyable movie courtships ever seen.
There is something so comfortable but magical about this movie that just makes me want to watch it again and again.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1181199/a/Murphy's+Romance.htm   (608 words)

  
 True Romance (1993)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This issue in which Nick dives into the ocean to retrieve the ring for the woman he loves (Pamela Hawley) is referred to as..."real romance".
"True Romance" is one of those few movies that has it all: Action, romance, drama and brilliant acting.
This along with numerous other reasons too long to explain here is why I truly believe "True Romance" is one of the greatest films ever made.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0108399   (447 words)

  
 Amazon.com: True Romance (Unrated Director's Cut): DVD: Tony Scott,Christian Slater,Patricia Arquette,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
True Romance is really part of a loose trilogy that includes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with a crackling Tarantino screenplay that rides a fine line between raucous comedy and violent excess.
True Romance is one of those great films that was rather unfairly and bizarrely largely ignored on it's original theatrical release but it's really hard to know why.
It's hard to believe this movie was made back in 1993 because it's still as fresh, still as cool and still looks as enjoyable as it was back then.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304602979?v=glance   (1901 words)

  
 Philosophy of Film
Suffice it to say here that changes in both academic philosophy and the cultural role of the movies in general made it imperative for philosophers to take film seriously as an artform on a par with the more traditional ones like theater, dance, and painting.
As a result of this surge in interest in film as a subject for philosophic reflection, the philosophy of film is now an important area of research in aesthetics.
As a result, there is no need, says the thought theorist, for the complexities of simulation theory in order to explain why we are moved by the movies.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/film   (5314 words)

  
 Movie Base, Movie Wallpapers
The "Scary Movie" franchise now resembles those montages of movie mockery Billy Crystal uses to launch the Academy Awards telecasts he hosts.
The movie opens with a "Saw" spoof, in which basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal and talk-show superstar Dr. Phil McGraw are chained to the walls of what appears to be the filthiest bathroom in civilization.
Movies are supposed to be a great date activity.
www.movie.si   (1732 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Romance: DVD: Catherine Breillat,Caroline Ducey,Sagamore Stévenin,François Berléand,Rocco Siffredi,Reza ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Catherine Breillat's sexually explicit drama, Marie (Caroline Ducey), a dark teardrop of a girl who is spurned by her live-in boyfriend, drags herself without apparent pleasure through one sordid sex situation after another while intoning such thoughts to herself as "I like it to be anonymous.
"Romance" from director Catherine Breillat isn't about romance at all--and while the film focuses on relationships between men and women, it's clear that romance has no place at all in this tale.
Maybe, visually it is enough to keep you watching this movie once, but not enough to consider it as a remarkable movie of year, as other reviewers trying to assure.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003JRAV?v=glance   (1818 words)

  
 Genre Browser: Romance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There are 19902 titles listed here and the search box below restricts your query solely to the Romance genre.
That's a shame -- the film is a subtle and powerful romance, almost entirely devoid of the sugary sentimentality that made, say, You've Got Mail at once so popular and so utterly forgettable.
The movie falters at points, and the ending is a bit too tidy, but it is well worth watching (preferably with your significant other) if for no other reason than to witness Crudup's rising star.
us.imdb.com /Sections/Genres/Romance   (268 words)

  
 Romance - Moviefone
Romance (1999) Romance on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Genre Browser: Romance Welcome to the IMDb guide to Romance movies.
Romantic Movie Recommendations I asked the subscribers of my ezine, The Romantic Tip of the Week, to give me ONE romantic movie they would recommend to other couples.
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