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Vernon Dobtcheff Movies
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Drama
Starring:
Scott Adkins,
Mykel Shannon Jenkins,
Mark Ivanir,
Hristo Shopov,
Marko Zaror,
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Everybody's favorite bad guy from Undisputed II returns. Yuri Boyka
(Scott Adkins) is a disgraced, disabled former champion prison fighter,
having had his right leg broken by George 'Iceman' Chambers (Michael
Jai White) in a Russian prison. Boyka learns of an international prison tournament (SPC) and enters to
regain his honor and prove himself as the 'most comp...
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Genres:
Horror
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Sissy Spacek,
James D'Arcy,
Rachel Hurd-Wood,
Matthew Marsh,
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We saw this movie last night at the Nashville Film Festival and sat 3
rows behind Courtney Solomon (the director). The ending we saw last
night was recently changed because the previous ending got such a
horrible review. In my opinion they should have just stopped the movie
2 minutes short.I was raised in middle Tennessee about 3 hours south of the Adams farm
and grew up hearin...
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Genres:
Horror
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Sissy Spacek,
James D'Arcy,
Rachel Hurd-Wood,
Matthew Marsh,
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We saw this movie last night at the Nashville Film Festival and sat 3
rows behind Courtney Solomon (the director). The ending we saw last
night was recently changed because the previous ending got such a
horrible review. In my opinion they should have just stopped the movie
2 minutes short.I was raised in middle Tennessee about 3 hours south of the Adams farm
and grew up hearin...
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Genres:
Crime
Thriller
Action
Starring:
Jean-Marc Barr,
Asia Argento,
Frances Barber,
Andrew Tiernan,
Alexandra Negrão,
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Another train wreck of an action movie (sort of) from the Besson stable...
A
totally ridiculous storyline about a girl on the run from her
superpowerful
mother who is evil incarnate (and makes sure everyone knows it all the
tile). The girl gets help from a nice mercenary, who takes her to find her
missing presumed dead father in Portugal.
Acting is generally dreadful (a...
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Genres:
Crime
Horror
Thriller
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell,
Marton Csokas,
Ronald Pickup,
Frances Barber,
John Benfield,
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I vote often but rarely feel the need to go beyond that point. With
that said I will keep it simple. The acting is believable, the
soundtrack, compelling, haunting and delicious. The story, although
altered and a piece of fiction based on fact, interesting. Performances
all around are believable, Malcolm hits a definite peak with his
portrayal, a career milestone. Don't expect ...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Ethan Hawke,
Julie Delpy,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Louise Lemoine Torres,
Rodolphe Pauly,
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...is that it ends. This is a fantastic film. It joins the handful of
movies where I think I liked the sequel even more than the original,
although I liked 'Before Sunrise' as well. Where Sunrise captured the
immediacy and urgency of perfect youthful love, Sunset reflects
beautifully on the aftermath of that perfection. I remember a line that
says "nothing that is complete brea...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Charlton Heston,
Sofia Milos,
Brian Thompson,
Ben Cross,
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It's with great joy I watched THE ORDER. Easily Jean-Claude Van Damme's best
film since Universal Soldier (1992). The author Les Weldon also wrote
Replicant (2001), where he also uses lots of clich...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Anouk Aimée,
Greta Scacchi,
Maximilian Schell,
Ron Silver,
Zack Norman,
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This is a highly interesting movie and to put it in simple words it is a
MOCKUMENTARY. The cast is excellent and it is a satire on what reading too
much into a movie can do to the general viewing of the movie. It makes a
pretend documentary into a kind of black comedy of what Critics and their
in
depth reading "into" movies of so much; that the absurdities of the movie
indu...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Thriller
Starring:
Antonio Banderas,
Olivia Williams,
John Shrapnel,
Derek Jacobi,
Jason Flemyng,
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The Body is an example of how an interesting idea for a movie (the
ideological and political implications of the discovery of the body of a
crucified man that could be Jesus Christ) can go absolutely wrong. It could
have made a really good movie with interesting analysis of the situation,
but it is an absolute failure: The script is very bad, with meaningless and
forced dialogu...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Charlton Heston,
Sofia Milos,
Brian Thompson,
Ben Cross,
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It's with great joy I watched THE ORDER. Easily Jean-Claude Van Damme's best
film since Universal Soldier (1992). The author Les Weldon also wrote
Replicant (2001), where he also uses lots of clich...
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Genres:
Biography
Drama
Music
Starring:
Emily Watson,
Rachel Griffiths,
James Frain,
David Morrissey,
Charles Dance,
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Films as intelligent and well crafted as this are hard to come by. `Hilary
and Jackie' is an exceptionally well done character study of two real life
sisters. Jackie (Emily Watson) is a world-class cellist and Hilary (Rachel
Griffiths) lives a normal middle class life. The story is rich in character
development depicting the sisters starting from their childhood when both
we...
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Genres:
Drama
Horror
Romance
Starring:
Mandy Patinkin,
Richard Harris,
Salma Hayek,
Edward Atterton,
Benedick Blythe,
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This version of Hugo's classic tale, directed by Peter Medak, is spoilt
somewhat by Mandy Patinkin's make-up as Quasimodo - only one side of
his face seems to be disfigured, making him more like the phantom of
the opera than the cathedral bell-ringer. But that's a small point.Salma Hayek is just OK as Esmeralda, but she isn't as luminous a beauty
as Maureen O'Hara was in the 1930s ...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Jeremy Irons,
John Lone,
Barbara Sukowa,
Ian Richardson,
Annabel Leventon,
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Genres:
Drama
History
War
Starring:
Brad Davis,
Madolyn Smith Osborne,
Ian Richardson,
Kenneth Colley,
Michael Byrne,
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This film has a solid plot and remains quite faithful to the historical
events which it portrays. Some scenes involving the conspirators are
necessarily conjecture but they always remain plausible and certainly do
not
compromise the facts for the sake of dramatic license.There is a good mix of action and dialogue throughout the film and a
tense
soundtrack which does a lot ...
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Genres:
Drama
Mystery
Thriller
Crime
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Christian Slater,
Helmut Qualtinger,
Elya Baskin,
Michael Lonsdale,
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'Variety' got it completely wrong when they called this film
"sorrowfully mediocre" and "sluggishly staged". For in all honesty The
Name of the Rose is one of the greatest films of the '80s, and a film
that grows in greatness every time you revisit it. Based on a major
bestselling novel by Umberto Eco, the film is an excellent murder
mystery further heightened by its authentic ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Hugh Griffith,
Laura Betti,
Ninetto Davoli,
Franco Citti,
Josephine Chaplin,
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This is the second in Pasolini's series of setting classic bawdy tales
to film… In this case, he selected eight of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
including the infamous miller's tale and the incident with the red hot
poker kiss… The tales revolve around a group of pilgrims who are journeying to the
shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket of Canterbury… The trip is s...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Starring:
Roger Moore,
Barbara Bach,
Curd Jürgens,
Richard Kiel,
Caroline Munro,
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In the 10th James Bond film, 007 does not always win and this makes him
more human... His relationship with a resourceful and beautiful Russian
agent is something new for the Bond films...Lewis Gilbert's film provides direct allusion to David Lean's epic
movies, bringing back a Blofeld-type character... His name is Karl
Stromberg, a shipping tycoon who despises every aspect of terr...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Starring:
Roger Moore,
Barbara Bach,
Curd Jürgens,
Richard Kiel,
Caroline Munro,
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In the 10th James Bond film, 007 does not always win and this makes him
more human... His relationship with a resourceful and beautiful Russian
agent is something new for the Bond films...Lewis Gilbert's film provides direct allusion to David Lean's epic
movies, bringing back a Blofeld-type character... His name is Karl
Stromberg, a shipping tycoon who despises every aspect of terr...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Edward Fox,
Terence Alexander,
Michel Auclair,
Alan Badel,
Tony Britton,
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Oliver Reed,
Diana Rigg,
Telly Savalas,
Curd Jürgens,
Philippe Noiret,
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After reading the other comments here, I wonder if these folks saw the same
movie. This film is a lot of fun, a touch on the slap-stick side and it
isn't supposed to be Bond OR the Pink Panther. Maybe the problem is
generational??? Those of us who grew up in the far away and ancient times
learned that there didn't have to be an action sequence every thirty
seconds, lots of o...
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Genres:
Drama
History
Starring:
Richard Burton,
Geneviève Bujold,
Irene Papas,
Anthony Quayle,
John Colicos,
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A great play by Maxwell Anderson, history, a wonderful cast,
magnificent production values and 10 "Oscar" nominations. What more
could you ask for. Producer Hal Wallis assembled some of Great
Britain's greatest talent at the time, and it shows.Richard Burton has the role of a lifetime and he is great. His Henry
VIII wants a male heir and his eyes are set on Anne. He is randy, r...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor,
Richard Burton,
Cyril Cusack,
Michael Hordern,
Alfred Lynch,
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This is a film version of a Shakespeare play the way Shakespeare would
have
wanted it to be seen - as funny and entertaining. The gorgeous colour in
the sets and costumes reminds us that this story is taking place in sunny
Italy - maybe it takes an Italian director to realize and bring out that
light-hearted joyfulness. The actors are all wonderful, so natural in
their
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