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http://imdb.com/title/tt0408345/ If your fear with “Firewall” is yet another “Hackers” movie, fear not. This is very much like “The Fugitive”, and – I suppose – that is why Harrisson Ford stars as Jack Stanfield: someone who gets framed… I also guess that Mary Rajskub choice for the role of “Janet Stone”, is because of her [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0462482/ Jeremy Sisto (Billy from Six Feet Under) is Steve Kady, working for the USA census @ Washington. He goes to a small town, where the population seems to have stabilised on 436 people. In a few days, he’ll understand why… This movie is predictable, but very well executed: good acting, clear plot, coherent characters. [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0425210/ This is a violent movie, with guns. I hate guns. I hate violence. I now have a strong resistance to watching flicks that build the plot on gratuitous violence, so I nearly left the room, after LNS’ first minutes. I am glad I endured, because it turned out interesting and intense… The plot is [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0397313/ My rating: 5/10 This is a Disney movie, so I expected quality family entertainment! And I got it – at least the “family” part… Unfortunately (for me), I also expected thrilling action: the title suggests an icy adventure and since John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, I can’t resist a flick set on snow & ice. [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0373469/ My rating: 3/10 This is the first time I notice a huge gap between what seems the IMDB consensus and my own opinion. The last time I checked, KKBB was rated 7.9/10 and I can’t begin to figure why. Too many bang bang, too many car crashes, not so many kiss kiss, nothing sexy [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0368008/ My rating: 7/10 Directed by Jonathan Demme, this movie tells a conspiracy story, where one corporation – Manchurian Global - uses brain washing techniques, in order to fabricate a context, that will allow them to place one person they control, as the President of the USA! The first half of the movie is more cerebral and [...]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0434409/ My rating: 6/10 Written by the Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame, and highly rated on IMDB, this movie is not that good…I suppose that many people overrate it, because they are not satisfied with they Governments. This story is set on a “new UK”, where civil liberties are very much restricted, relatively to what [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468565/ My rating: 9/10 Very emotional South African achievement, telling the story of a “nobody”, living on a very poor home, having no job, no known parents, no known relatives, no true friends, and no relevant skills, except for being familiarised with violence – which is handy on his social context… There is no obvious [...]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362590/ This movie could have been great, but – just you when you thought its argument was solid – it makes a U turn and ends up delivering the most unbelievable twist! The twist is such, that it destroys all characters, in the sense that no personage is what it was supposed to be – [...]

No Sábado 2006-05-13, pelas 14:30, parti de Abrantes para Alvega, em perseguição do Renault Clio cinzento de Helder Rodrigues, Técnico Superior da Câmara Municipal de Abrantes (CMA), que – por iniciativa da CMA – tinha-me convidado para uma apresentação sobre “novas tecnologias”, dirigida a uma audiência de “dirigentes juvenis”, por ocasião do “II Encontro Municipal [...]