DadsDinner (21 titles)
DadsDinner.com features reviews of films and videogames of particular interest to fathers of young children, alongside useful tips on how to survive everything from potty training to zombie invasion. A dad's freetime is precious, limited and liable to be cut short in an extremely messy fashion at any moment -- why waste it on a game that won't let you save when you need to or a movie with substandard explosions? Try these instead:
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Shoot 'Em Up
It's slightly too silly and confused to be an absolute classic but it's still one of the better action films of recent years.
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Shoot 'Em Up
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti
Director: Michael Davis
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Shoot 'Em Up is a gritty, fast paced action thriller starring Clive Owen as Mr. Smith; a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Bellucci) in order to protect a newborn baby from a determined hitman (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.
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Battlestar Galactica - The Mini Series
Drama, political commentary, big fights and spaceships. What's not to like?
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Battlestar Galactica - The Mini Series
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff
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PLEASE NOTE: This is the introduction to the new television series. It has been more than 40 years since the humans of the 12 Colonies of Kobol did battle with the Cylons - a sentient robot race who turned on their creators with deadly results. The robots have observed the armistice that ended ..read more »
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Crash
The conclusions are never clear-cut since the characters are both complicated and sympathetic.
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Crash
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon
Director: Paul Haggis
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Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
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The Brothers Grimm
Clever, funny, creepy, beautiful and surprising. Unmissable. Matt Damon isn't even annoying. Bonus.
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The Brothers Grimm
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Lena Headey
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Director Terry Gilliam, who brought his magical storytelling talents to such films as Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, sets his sights on the Brothers Grimm, turning their life into a playfully grim fairy tale all its own. Set in early 18th Century French-occupied Germany, The ..read more »
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Mission Impossible 3
Simon Pegg's cameo is notable because he gets to speak at some length without Cruise interrupting or running off with a determined look on his face. It's like a brief glimpse into a reality where Tom Cruise is just another actor. Weird...
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Mission Impossible 3
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Keri Russell
Director: J.J. Abrams
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Tom Cruise is back in action in this third helping of the hit franchise. Alias and Lost creator J.J. Abrams takes the directors chair in this explosive third installment.
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Crackdown
You can jump around like a superhero and rain down explosive destruction from above. Exhilarating leaps between sky-scrapers are common place. Frantic fire-fights break out all over.
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Crackdown
on Xbox 360
(2007)
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As a genetically-enhanced agent of justice, it's your job to rid the city of crime by any means necessary. You are the extreme solution to an extreme problem as you attempt to take out 21 gang bosses and restore law and order to a sprawling metropolis teeming with lawlessness.Crackdown is set in ..read more »
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Crank
It's trashy and confused but there's genius in there somewhere. The more I think about it, the more I liked it.
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Crank
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jason Statham, Efren Ramirez, Amy Smart
Director: Mark Neveldine
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A hit man (Statham) learns that a poison injected into his body will kill him if his heart rate drops slows a certain point. Now he must exact his revenge on the people who injected him before he takes his last breath.
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Pan's Labyrinth
The effects and cinematography are fantastic and the production values are as high as any Hollywood movie. The only real problem is that it's a bit in Spanish. Actually, it's a lot in Spanish. Oh, all right, it's all in Spanish.
Don't be put off, though.
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
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Payback
An excellent action thriller... as long as you like Mel Gibson.
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Payback
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Coburn, Gregg Henry
Director: Brian Helgeland
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Mel Gibson plays Porter, a ruthless criminal, who is gunned down by his wife and friend after they rob an Oriental gang. When Porter survives the attack, he makes it his mission to exact revenge on his friend, who has used the robbery money to buy his way into a powerful syndicate. Added to the mix ..read more »
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300
Three hundred Spartans take on tens of thousands of Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae while wearing nothing but cloaks and loincloths. And then... No, hang on, that's about it, actually.
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300
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Andrew Pleavin
Director: Zack Snyder
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Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 takes over the screen like an invading horde. With all the gushing blood of a horror movie and the scope of a classic epic, the second film from Zack Snyder (who helmed the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) is an impressive visual ..read more »
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