May 13, 2013
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Channel Guide Magazine
Cloud Atlas is certainly the most ambitious of this week's titles. With a budget of over $100,000,000, the film is one of the most expensive independent films made to date. Nominated for a Golden Globe award, the film involves cast members playing...
May 10, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
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The Fresno Bee
This week's new DVD releases range from the odd to the odder.
"Cloud Atlas," Grade B: Events and actions in one time period have an affect on past and future eras. Tom Hanks stars. Not since "2001: A Space Odyssey" has a film come along that's such a...
May 8, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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Less than a year after “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. “Come and see it all!” beckons the trailer for the silent film. “And enjoy the entertainment thrill of...
Jan 2, 2013
|Story| Zap2It
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Since they're ambitious directors within their own spheres, the Wachowskis ("The Matrix") and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") only could yield a massively ambitious project by teaming up.
This film certainly is that, and even if the lengthy result - based...
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| Tribune Media Services
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Variety
The first spawn of a German co-sponsored training/production program started after the success of Tom Tykwer and Hawa Essuman's "Soul Boy," Kenya's Oscar submission "Nairobi Half Life" is a lively affair that wears its cliches lightly. Helmer Tosh...
Dec 13, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
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The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms.
Steven Spielberg's epic on the 16th president, "Lincoln," stood out in the film categories with seven Golden Globe nominations, followed...
Sep 10, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Oct 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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The Wachowskis lie low. It's what they do. Indeed, They do it so well that when you meet the Wachowskis and ask them about their lying low, you find yourself reminding yourself: You have never really seen them before. Not really. They don't stand for...
Oct 26, 2012
|Story| KSWB-LTV
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Fox 5 San Diego staff
You will not like this movie. You will not understand this movie. I can prove the second statement, and am merely taking a guess on the first.
Tom Hanks had to explain the movie to Letterman last week when Dave said he didn’t get it. He asked if...
Oct 26, 2012
|Story| Glendale News Press
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David Mitchell's 2004 novel “Cloud Atlas” was ambitious, sometimes confounding, and absolutely riveting. Viewers are likely to find the film “Cloud Atlas” — written and directed by Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”)...
Oct 25, 2012
|Column| RedEye
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Hokum of monumental proportions is still hokum. Watch the 6-minute “Cloud Atlas” trailer about 30 times and you’ll have an idea of what it’s like to sit through this epic disaster, which never bores but never...
Oct 24, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
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OPENING FRIDAY
Cloud Atlas
Maybe if you’re 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friends, the platitudes presented here might seem profound. Anyone else in his or her right mind should recognize it for what it is: a bloated, pseudo-...
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