Out in Theaters: PALO ALTO
What transpires is a whole bunch of nothing that adds up to little more than: "Rich white people gots it ruff." Like the offspring of someone tragically out of touch…
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Out in Theaters: CHEF
Hoffman's suit of a boss likens Casper to a Rolling Stones show; "Imagine if you paid for a ticket and they didn't play Satisfation?" Well, Favreau's film slyly retorts, had…
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Out in Theaters: THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2
Even set to the background noise of Webb and Garfield pondering leaving the series sooner rather than later, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does move the puck forward a significant amount,…
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Out in Theaters: DECODING ANNIE PARKER
Bernstein works the movie like a circus clown, loading suckerpunch after suckerpunch into his cinematic cannon, but they strike with dull thuds. His pleads for heartbreak hardly break a sweat;…
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Restored and Revisited: Godzilla (1954) Celebrates 60 Years
As a metaphor for WWII-era America, the beastly, thoughtless rampager seems less a condemnation of Japan's former enemies than an admission of invitation. Honda's is a film that doesn't place…
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Weekly Review 45: DEVIL, PARANORMAL, DIVING, WOLVES
A relatively light week at the theaters in which I saw Chef (review to follow), Paul Walker‘s last completed project Brick Mansions (buhuh) and a half-way decent horror movie that’s failed to make much of an impression at the box office, The Quiet Ones. Aside from those you’ll find below, I also revistied The Amazing...
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Out in Theaters: BRICK MANSIONS
It's a ton of fun, if your idea of fun is wasting an hour and thirty minutes of your life. Brick tries out a few jokes here and there -…
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Documentary Dossier: JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
Jodorowsky raped my mind. And I loved it. Yeah. Or maybe that’s just the Stockholm Syndrome talking.
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Out in Theaters: JOE
Shouldering the picture, Poulter, Blevins, Cage and Sheridan are the savior of Green's view of a broke down suburban hell hole. If only they weren't always forced into such sketchy…
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Out in Theaters: TRANSCENDENCE
Plot mechanics are omnipresent and omnipotent until the script demands it not so, characters unfold incompatible reveals without satisfying explanation, and by the end... well it's hard to even say…