Out in Theaters: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY
With more in common with the films of the 1960s than the films of 2014, The Two Faces of January has a tendency to turn the pot to a low…
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Out in Theaters: GONE GIRL
Gone Girl deals in accusations and historical gender circumstance. It's a 21st century battle of the sexes; a tennis match played with grenades. Amy and Nick's affair depends entirely upon…
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Weekly Review 57: KILL, HOS2EL, SACRAMENT
Three more horror movies at home this week were joined by screening of Gone Girl, Men, Women and Children and Annabelle. With a fair amount of work on my platter and a barrage of visitors, my at home viewing wasn’t what it’s been lately. Nonetheless, I present a short selection of great, good and bad....
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Out in Theaters: ANNABELLE
The added disappointment of serializing a film whose horrors were without bound, Annabelle sullies the good name of the Warren's demonology franchise. Peddling in doll stares and wanna-be ominous monotony,…
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Out in Theaters: TRACKS
One thing is for certain: you won't find more camel drool in any other movie to come out this year. And even though the journey doesn't ever conjure up the…
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Weekly Review 56: SESSION, IT, SANGRE, MANHUNTER, PONTYPOOL, SLACKER, BORGMAN
Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve gotten through all of Survivor on Hulu or I just have had more time on my hands lately but once again, I have a huge slate of movies for this batch of Weekly Review. Horror flicks from four decades made an appearance; some of which were great, some exhaustively...
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Out in Theaters: THE EQUALIZER
But Fuqua never squanders his greatest asset, Denzel, showing that he knows how to milk every last drop out of his magnetic star power. Gone is the toothy, chatty Denzel…
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Out in Theaters: LILTING
By the end I felt like I was in 7th grade again, just trying to figure out where a simple měiguó rén might fit in all this confusion. Though Khaou’s…
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Out in Theaters: HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
Because in the end, a perceived culture of racism doesn't really have much bearing on the overall quality of the film. What really takes Hector and Pegg down a peg…
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Out in Theaters: THE BOXTROLLS
But that's because this time around, Laika has moved the focus onto the characters, who look better realized than ever before. They're much less choppy, almost to the point of…