Out in Theaters: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2
As we learned in CWACOM 1, genius comes with a price. For all the short-term success of Flint's FLDSMDFR, the resulting chaos proved too hefty a bill to pay -…
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Out in Theaters: PRISONERS
While often uncompromisingly bleak, Prisoners ends up as more of a pulpy, often riveting, character study than what we may originally have suspected. The film is just caked in grit,…
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Out in Theaters: POPULAIRE
Depth was never the goal here and Roinsard scores major points for sticking to his flowery guns. Like similarly woozy Jean-Pierre Jeunet films, it's just a wonder something so fleet-footed,…
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Out in Theaters: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2
Insidious: Chapter 2″ Directed by James Wan Starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Steve Coulter Horror, Thriller 105 Mins PG-13 Back in grade school, we learn about the five paragraph essay. It starts with an intriguing hook to invite readers into the text. Following from the content of...
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Out in Theaters: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2
As a solitary feature, without what comes before it and will come next, Insidious 2 is wildly incomplete, capped off with more holes than a back country freeway sign in…
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Three Days in the Thick of BUMBERSHOOT
As an annual sendoff to summer, Bumbershoot 2013 is a monumental celebration of the free spirit (ironically set on Labor Day) – a keyed up free-for-all of art, music, comedy, film and theater. The droves of Bumbershoot attendees (henceforth known as Shooters) yearned for the wealth of artistic expression, surging and forming into longer and...
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Out in Theaters: SHORT TERM 12
Another, more difficult, thing to take away is Cretton's interpretation of self-inflicted pain. Many wounded souls hurt themselves not to inflict pain but to make the pain go away. This…
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Out in Theaters: RIDDICK
With reckless abandon, Twohy throws too much at the screen, desperately hoping for it all to stick. Fortunately for him, some of it does. There's enough absurdity to cull some…
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Out in Theaters: GETAWAY
internet. With only one long-shot in the entirety of the film worth mentioning at all, the result is so watered down that there's hardly any taste left in it at…
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Out in Theaters: CLOSED CIRCUIT
So Crowley's greatest crime is that he's crafted a bore-fest. Political angles wrought with finger pointing are undone by naive filmmaking that supposes politicking can alone triumph over genuine thrills.…