Out in Theaters: IRON MAN 3
There is a necessary amount of forgiveness involved in the Marvel Movie Universe but if you're willing to engage and let this world full of superheroes and supervillians continue to…
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Little Good Ship Chased by Big Evil Ship in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS IMAX Poster
If you’re like me, you’ve been trying your best to avoid the onslaught of Star Trek Into Darkness marketing. Whether this means charging out of the theater during it’s previews, ducking your head when tv spots come on and even popping in headphones or humming along to yourself any time one of what seems...
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Weekly Review 24: THIS IS 40, ROBOT AND FRANK
Just a couple of flicks from 2012 that I never got to see in this week’s installment of Weekly Review. This is 40 seemed to largely divide critics but I found it to be a very ugly, very unnecessary film. Frank and Robot, however, was a nice little independent drama worthy of a worth if...
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Out in Theaters: PAIN AND GAIN
Even though Pain and Gain is maybe Bay's most mature film to date and he legitimately tries to dissect an nearly incomprehensible ethos, his own over-embellishing and tacky directorial choices…
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Out in Theaters: MUD
Themes of innocence lost and re-invigoration of character are beautifully woven into the subtext and come across as potent and intoxicating, allowing Mud to be something to dwell on rather…
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Weekly Review 23: HUSTLE AND FLOW, MANHATTAN, LIKE CRAZY, THE PERFECT HOST
This week I had a chance to catch up with some more films filling out that ever-growing list of “movies to see.” I finally got to see Terrence Howard‘s knockout performance in Hustle and Flow, Woody Allen‘s masterpiece Manhattan, a rocky rom-com Like Crazy and a David Hyde Pierce psychopathic-thriller The Perfect Host. Hustle...
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Out in Theaters: OBLIVION
Oblivion has the DNA of The Matrix, Alien, Wall-E, Terminator and especially Duncan Jones' Moon and while it's hard to ignore the influence that those films had on Oblivion, Kosinski…
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Out in Theaters: 42
At the center of the 42 is a stirring tale of resistance, will-power, personal triumph and character- a Jesus-esque tale of turning the other cheek and growing in spite of…
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Out in Theaters: TRANCE
It takes a tested hand like Boyle’s to turn this relatively minor film into a genre flick buzzing along with tactful cinema purity and a life all its own. The…
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Weekly Review 22: THE INTOUCHABLES, BLACK SNAKE MOAN, FISH TANK
This week in movie watching, I caught up on a few films that I’d been wanting to see from around the world including the French dramedy The Intouchables, Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Rucci deep-south film Black Snake Moan, and a difficult British film that explored some tough issues – Fish Tank. The Intouchables...