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Dan Jardine

"It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Biography:
A little mystery in a blossoming relationship like this is a good thing.
Favorites:
Top Ten of 2007 1. Into the Wild 2. Ratatouille 3. Control 4. Once 5. Away from Her 6. The Lives of Others 7. Grindhouse 8. 28 Weeks Later 9. Zodiac 10. Sweeney Todd 11. Killer of Sheep 12. Manufactured Landscapes Honorable Mentions: Michael Clayton, Kim Ki-Duk's Time, Gone Baby Gone , Bourne Ultimatum, The Host, Hot Fuzz, Sicko Favorite Films of All Time: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Schindler's List, Taxi Driver, It's a Wonderful Life, Seven Samurai, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Casablanca, Deer Hunter, Citizen Kane, Chungking Express, The Third Man, Dr. Strangelove, Andrei Rublev, Manchurian Candidate, A Clockwork Orange Favorite Directors: Kubrick, Scorcese, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Coen Brothers.
Publications:
All Movie Guide , Apollo Guide , Cinemania , Daily-Reviews , Jacksonville Film Journal , Slant Magazine , TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1064
Total QuickRatings:
110
Location:
Victoria, BC, Canada

Dvd Reviews Only

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
85/100 87% Le Corbeau (1943) " Le Corbeau stands tall above and beyond the criticisms of the day as a biting comment on the degenerative effects of using vicious and paranoid practices to bind together in fear any society of people. " — Cinemania
Posted Aug 22, 2011
88/100 95% Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) " Band of Outsiders is the celebration of amateur cinema that Godard had been reaching for since Breathless but hadn't been able to reach yet because - to modify a line from Elvis Costello - he kept on getting in the way. " — Cinemania
Posted Aug 20, 2011
82/100 100% Anatomy of a Murder (1959) " Justice appears to be an afterthought in this case in which procedure and self-interest, rather than a pursuit of the truth, control the process." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2010
89/100 90% Amarcord (2009) " A masterpiece of personal filmmaking" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 30, 2009
90/100 100% The Maltese Falcon (1941) " Ground zero for film noir. Iconic." — Cinemania
Posted Dec 23, 2009
88/100 100% The African Queen (1951) " Part buddy action flick, part screwball comedy, it's all good." — Cinemania
Posted Dec 23, 2009
76/100 91% District 9 (2009) " Intriguing premise; unfulfilled promise" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 21, 2009
93/100 95% It's a Wonderful Life (1946) " A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 21, 2009
89/100 95% Hero (2004) " Extras include a making-of featurette and a conversation with actor Jet Li and the movie's key North American promoter Quentin Tarantino." — Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 10, 2009
92/100 100% Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) " Kubrick's overt connection of sexuality and violence underlines many of the film's best jokes while placing an exclamation point on many of his most critical assertions" — Cinemania
Posted Jul 30, 2009
94/100 96% 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) " Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life" — Cinemania
Posted Jul 23, 2009
78/100 51% Code 46 (2004) " Complex and cold, intelligent and aloof, fascinating and off-putting" — Cinemania
Posted Jul 18, 2009
71/100 85% Jerry Maguire (1996) " competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects." — Cinemania
Posted Jul 2, 2009
94/100 90% Hunger (2009) " Worthy of comparison to Dreyer and Tarkovsky. Yes, McQueen's film is THAT good." — Apollo Guide
Posted Feb 3, 2009
85/100 95% The Truman Show (1998) " Extras on the disc include a substantial documentary, one sufficiently lengthy to have been split into two parts." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 12, 2008
90/100 78% Audition (Ôdishon) (1999) " Takashi Miike is the Tasmanian Devil of contemporary filmmakers." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 7, 2008
79/100 74% Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) " Politically correct Cheech and Chong" — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 5, 2008
89/100 83% Titanic (in 3D) (2012) " The 10th anniversary edition DVD is deceptively well-endowed with extras." — Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 21, 2007
74/100 94% Face/Off (1997) " The DVD extras start with two full-length audio commentaries, one by director John Woo, and a second by writers Mike Web and Michael Colleary." — Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 18, 2007
88/100 94% Hamlet (1996) " The two-disc special edition DVD release of Hamlet is spectacular." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 23, 2007
58/100 —— The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) " A commentary by Aubrey Solomon that kicks in only during select scenes is one of" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2007
52/100 —— Stopover Tokyo (1957) " This film's beautiful Japanese scenery comes across very nicely on this widescreen DVD." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2007
56/100 25% Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) " This movie at least looks great on DVD." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2007
47/100 —— Sea Wife (1957) " The DVD version of Sea Wife benefits from the sharp look provided by Technicolor Cinemascope filming that was on the cutting edge in its day." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2007
61/100 —— Seven Thieves (1960) " Released as part of a five-movie Joan Collins set, the disc offers a few minor special features." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 24, 2007
96% The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) " "Pushes the whole British nobility paradigm into the realm of twit psychosis."" — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 19, 2007
56/100 —— Expo: Magic of the White City (2005) " The DVD version of the movie comes without any extras." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 16, 2007
60/100 67% Everything's Gone Green (2007) " Everything's Gone Green is available on DVD in both its original 'rated' form, or as an 'unrated' version." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 8, 2007
76/100 —— Shenandoah (1965) " Released as part of a five-movie 'Screen Legend' set featuring the performances of James Stewart, this is a DVD with just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 28, 2007
67/100 88% The Glenn Miller Story (1953) " Released as part of a five-disc James Stewart 'Screen Legends' collection, this DVD comes with no extra features." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 27, 2007
65/100 —— You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) " Available on DVD in a five-movie set of James Stewart films." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 27, 2007
63/100 —— Thunder Bay (1953) " There's just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 27, 2007
75/100 —— James Stewart: Screen Legend Collection (2007) " The movie is available on DVD as part of a four-film James Stewart set." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 25, 2007
84/100 81% Looking for Richard (1996) " Has but one special feature - a half-hour epilogue." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 25, 2007
62/100 —— Pacino - An Actor's Vision (2006) " Al Pacino offers an audio commentary, one that varies wildly between informative and off-the-wall." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 23, 2007
73/100 73% Flags of Our Fathers (2006) " The two-disc HD-DVD release of Flags of Our Fathers includes a set of sharp looking featurettes created in high definition." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 18, 2007
48/100 20% Dead Silence (2007) " Enter at your own risk." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 15, 2007
83/100 95% Le Cercle Rouge (1970) " Among the many pieces of supplementary material in this two-disc set are excerpts from a 1970 documentary on director Jean-Pierre Melville's career." — Apollo Guide
Posted May 9, 2007
86/100 87% A History of Violence (2005) " Clearly, David Cronenberg takes DVD content seriously, and viewers are the beneficiaries of this." — Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 21, 2007
88/100 96% Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) " Funny and smart is sublime in my books." — Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 6, 2007
70/100 91% The Deer Hunter (1978) " A film I have grown increasingly ambivalent about over the years." — Cinemania
Posted Feb 25, 2007
88/100 95% Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima, My Love) (1959) " The opening scene is like the Taj Mahal; it rises above the hype and delivers." — Cinemania
Posted Jan 30, 2007
905/100 91% La Jetée (The Pier) (1962) " Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. A very VERY great film." — Cinemania
Posted Sep 4, 2006
51/100 90% Trilogy of Terror (1975) " Black is a blast, but only the third tale, Amelia, is worth our time." — Cinemania
Posted Aug 29, 2006
89/100 96% Do the Right Thing (1989) " Maybe Mookie does the wrong thing. But he does it for the right reason." — Cinemania
Posted Aug 22, 2006
84% Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) " Violent, caustic, funny and rather deliberately derivative of the Tarantino school of wink-wink nudge-nudge filmmaking." — Cinemania
Posted Jul 14, 2006
95% The Straight Story (1999) " A great big can of corn. Kernel corn, not that mushy crap." — Cinemania
Posted Jul 14, 2006
91/100 98% Manhattan (1979) " A serious but funny film, both gorgeous and painful." — Cinemania
Posted Jul 9, 2006
93/100 98% Annie Hall (1977) " More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen." — Cinemania
Posted Jul 7, 2006
75/100 81% Fight Club (1999) " Vibrant and funny, but more than a bit muddle-headed." — Cinemania
Posted Jun 27, 2006
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