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• “Don’t go to the dark side. Don’t do it
Miles. No dark side.”
• “And you were just about to tell her I was getting married. What’s wrong with you?”
• Wine tasting.
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• 1. “We hit a deer. Can I borrow this knife? I have to cut off its paw, or whatever it’s called.”
• “A hoof.”
• 2. “Mikey, remember to keep stirring the sauce.”
• 3. “You look like a gangster!”
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• 1. “Symbols are a language.”
• 2. “This is history! We are living history. It is truly great to have brought this to me tonight.”
• 3. The Priory of Sion.
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• 1. “20 days in the cooler.”
• 2. “It’s Captain Hilts.”
• 3. Tom, Dick and Harry.
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• 1. “Sometimes I was reminded how great it is to be alive, and all the things that life gives you.”
• 2. “What lovely family photos. What a family history you have.”
• “They come with the house.”
• 3. “What do you know about the button business?”
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• “It’s sugar and marmalade, enough sugar to get you going all day… Are you going to eat that?”
• “I want to break the one-hour distance record.”
• Flying Dutchman.
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• 1. “A OK with me hun, darn nice of her too.
Oh heck! Second of January. Can’t do it pooh.”
• 2. “He was wearing my Harvard tie. And oh sure, he went to Harvard.”
• 3. Louis Winthorp III.
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(2004)
1
• Nominated for Best Picture in 2004, this clever comedy is a classic in opposing personalities. Miles (Paul Giamatti), the neurotic, recently divorced English teacher and failed novelist finds his life turned upside down when he spends a week wine tasting in California with his old college roommate (Thomas Haden Church). Jack
(Church) wants to have fun before he gets married on the upcoming Saturday and in doing so encourages Miles to loosen up and have fun. Meeting a waitress (Virginia
Madsen) near his favorite winery, Miles begins a relationship with her which leads to the opening of his heart and the beginning of his healing process. He comes to terms with his ex-wife's remarriage and pregnancy, and with the refusal from his agent about the publication of his book. With this growth and pain comes too much drinking.
Paralleled with this vice is Jack’s obsession with sex. Looking to score before tying the knot, he goes on a rampage, using his acting past to flatter girls and pounce on star struck innocent women who regard him as the character Dr. Somersby in a soap opera. Church comes to terms with his own shortcomings after being caught with a waitress and being forced to run 5 kilometers back to the hotel at one point running through an ostrich field.
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The film was a big hit, causing sales for Pinot Noir to rise 16% and Merlot to drop 2%.
With great dialogue and a great script, it is a pleasure to watch. ( four stars )
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(1990)
2
• Nominated for Best Picture in 1990, this gangster film is bound together by three memorable characters: Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), Pete Conway (Robert DeNiro) and
Tommy (Joe Pesci). Few movies ever have the gel that these three bring to a story winding through Hill’s life as a mobster from 1956 through to 1980. Hill, groomed from when he was a kid, partners with Conway and Tommy to steal and kill their way through the seventies, creating their own little unit within the family. The hot-headed
Tommy, (with Pesci delivering his Oscar role), acts without thinking and kills a made man. Hill and Conway get pinched after roughing up a guy in Florida, and each serve
10 years. There, Hill develops a drug dealing operation that he brings with him when he gets out of the joint. Living on the edge, Hill deals his way into trouble when he is caught by the FBI. Turning state’s evidence, he enters the witness protection program and rats out his mob family. Even Paulie (Paul Sorvino), ends his life behind bars.
Pete Conway was still in jail at the time the film came out.
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One of the best liked films ever made, with a large cult following. Based on the book
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, it redefined the gangster film and made being a mobster a cool thing. With a soundtrack that includes Rolling Stones and Yardbirds music, it’s a must for any film collection. ( four stars )
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(2006)
3
• Based on the immensely popular novel by Dan Brown, the film portrays the professor
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and his journey of discovery once he is pulled into a mystery. An expert of symbols, this Harvard academic gets his hands dirty when he discovers that behind the rumors of secret societies and legends there are real people. The Catholic Church has operatives to fight against an old heritage of offspring in the bloodline of Jesus. These old families try to protect the royal bloodline and will stop at nothing to protect a secret that could topple Rome. The journey into the world of symbology is a fascinating adventure that jolts us out of our everyday ignorance. Common symbols people see everyday suddenly take on a new meaning when given the historical background of the symbol, and from these secrets can be unlocked. And part of this unlocked secret world is the Priory of Sion: an ancient order whose task it is to protect the descendents of Jesus’ bloodline. Sophie Neveu (Audrey
Tautou) is the most recent descendent of the royal bloodline and it is Sophie who finds Langdon when there is a death in Paris. Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellan) is the insturment of knowledge and avid follower of grail lore. Through Teabing they find what they didn’t know existed and are enlightened as to the strange hidden forces at work behind the scenes today.
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Full of information about a hidden corner of European history, the film packs a lot in, trying to remain faithful to the book. One needs three quiet hours to absorb the history contained in this film, but if the reader is hungry for the esoteric, this is the right film to watch. ( three stars )
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(1963)
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• The Germans put all the best escape artists into one camp in World War
Two. Since it is the sworn duty of all officers as a POW to try to escape or otherwise harass the enemy by any means, the men who make up Stalag
Luft III all have a history. Roger “Big X” Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) heads an escape by digging three tunnels: ‘Tom, Dick and Harry.’ Each man is assigned a task to help with the escape. Hendley (James Garner) heads up the scrounging details, and through him their operation can function.
Captain Hilts (Steve McQueen) is an American among the British and embodies the gung-ho, stoic character of the Americans. Despite individual attempts to escape, Hilts ultimately contributes to the Great Escape but in his own terms. This role established McQueen as a step apart from the ensemble cast, making him the anti-hero of the sixties. Based on a true story, the film features other great actors, such as Charles Bronson, Donald
Pleasance and James Coburn. The motorcycling scene near the end of the film is an image that remains with the viewing long after the film is over.
• In 2009, seven surviving POWs visited the prison camp and then watched the Great Escape 65 years after the event. ( three stars )
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(2008)
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• Employing a somewhat improbable premise, the film achieves great peaks of meaning and exemplifies filmmaking at its finest. Spanning a lifetime, the story follows Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who is born old. Despite being a baby, Benjamin walks with a cane and has brittle bones, but the older he becomes, the more youthful his body becomes. He meets the love of his life Daisy (Cate Blanchett) when he is young but she becomes a dancer and moves to New York City. Benjamin goes off the sea as a merchant seaman, leaving his life in New Orleans behind. Having been born with this off disability, his life is different and at times challenging, but the life lessons he learns throughout his life and perhaps from the sage advice and wisdom he heard at the old age home where he grew up, he is able to present his life from a fresh perspective. The story is told through his voice because he left a journal for his daughter at the time of Daisy’s death. Through Benjamin’s daughter reading his journal, both the daughter (Julia Ormond) and the reader experience Benjamin
Button’s life firsthand. The gentle, careful nature of his character, Benjamin meets many interesting people who influence his life.
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Having this memoir read has enabled the writers to illustrate poignant moments in his life, adding philosophical gems of insight. This makes this a special film, with beautiful images and warm emotions that stay with you long after the film has ended. ( four stars )
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(2006)
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• Based on a true story, the story is about Scotsman Graeme Obree (Johnny
Lee Miller), a world-record holder in cycling. Overcoming a tough childhood,
Obree uses cycling as a means to channel his emotions (depression). He becomes an accomplished cyclist, winning many local bin races but still unknown out of Scotland. When he loses his job, he decides to try to break the world one-hour record. Training hard and hiring a manager Malky
McGovern (Billy Boyd), he rents the velodrome in Norway for 24 hours, fails at his first attempt but smashes the world record in the morning. Becoming a sensation overnight, he has trouble handling the pressures and struggles with depression after a fall on the track. Incredibly, despite the world record and supportive family, Obree is traumatized by a persistent bully in his neighborhood who still emotionally affects him. Only after a suicide attempt does he realize he has an illness and that he needs help. On his road to recovery he again reaches the pinnacle in cycling and becomes the world renown Flying Scotsman, bringing lasting fame to Scotland.
• It is a memorable story and great illustration of struggling against the odds.
How a young man from Scotland becomes the world champion is a story everyone should know. ( three stars )
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(1983)
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• A classic comedy from the eighties, this Dan Aykroyd vehicle exemplifies the comedic actors finest gifts. As Louis Winthorpe III, he lives a comfortable life of privilege until he runs into Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy), a hobo who decides to fight back after he has been used in a bet by Randolph and Mortimer Duke, owners of the brokerage house. Based on a bet for one dollar, Mortimer Duke bets that he can take
Louis Winthorpe and put him on the street, begging like Billy Ray Valentine. To make his point about nurture over nature, he bets he can take Valentine and make him into a successful broker. As a result, both Winthorpe and Valentine suffer changes to their lives. Aykroyd is classic as the down-and-out Harvard graduate who delivers some of comedies sunniest scenes. When the two men discover that each is a guinea pig in a bet between two rich brothers, they decided to take action and get revenge. Tapping into resources from a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Coleman the butler (Denholm
Elliott), they corner the pork belly market and wreak havoc on the Duke coffers.
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Dan Aykroyd is best known as an actor but he stands as one of the most successful scriptwriters of the eighties, and this film is among his best. Understated and dry, let his subtlety take the wind from your lungs. The story is straight forward and the film lacks any special effects or unbelievable fiction, but the characters remain alive and original. A good film to watch when you want to have something light and to laugh.
( three stars )
How did you score
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• 7: Flick master el grande
• 6: Filmbuff
• 5. Nice one
• 4. Solid effort
• 3: Dubious
• 2. What are you doing?
• 1. My word!
• 0: You didn’t get one ?

namethatflick answers
• 1. Sideways
(2004)
• 2. Goodfellas
(1990)
• 3. The Da Vinci Code
(2006)
• 4. The Great Escape
(1963)
• 5. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(2008)
• 6. The Flying Scotsman
(2006)
• 7. Trading Places
(1983)
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