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The Company You Keep | Review
Return for Redford as Actor/Director in Heated Political Thriller Robert Redford, the actor, has been a staple of American pop culture for half a century, his golden smile and wet eyes long ago solidified
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The Host | Review
Disembodied: Niccol Unable to Overcome Parasitic Source Material For the sake of comparison, it’s safe to say that the latest adaptation of a Stephanie Meyer’s novel, The Host, makes for a better piece of
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Oz the Great and Powerful | Review
Dour and Sorrowful: Raimi’s Revamp a Hollow Echo of Magical Source Material Serving as only yet another testament to the flaccid capabilities of blatant dependence on CGI to convey movie magic, Sam Raimi’s Oz
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Dead Man Down | Review
Down With Love: Oplev’s American Debut Silly and Enjoyable Reuniting with Noomi Rapace, star of his insanely successful 2009 adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev debuts his first American
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Phantom | Review
Campfire Tales: Robinson’s Cold War Conjecture Leadenly Onerous For his first directorial feature since 2006’s true story tinged Lonely Hearts, Todd Robinson is back with another hyperbolized scenario with Phantom. While once again managing
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Zero Dark Thirty | Review
Mourning the Mythic: Revenge has no Taste in Bin Laden Hunt Film Director Kathryn Bigelow willfully reigns in her own mythologizing instincts in the harrowing ‘Zero Dark Thirty‘ to present an unmediated “real reality”
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Patton | Blu-ray Review
When you are the only General ever feared by the Nazis in World War II you can expect to have an equally epic story to be told about you. The new re-release of George
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Skyfall | Review
Bond’s 50th Birthday Bonanza His Best Yet? What a celebration. The Bond series turns 50 this year, and Skyfall is nearly the perfect film to send our favorite super spy over the hill. Making
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Columbia Pictures Join Team “Foxcatcher”; Make it 2 for 2 with Bennett Miller
Columbia Pictures are making an early bid towards possible 2013 Oscar talk by grabbing the distrib rights to the Bennett Miller directed, Foxcatcher. The studio will co-finance along with Annapurna Pictures – the current champion
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Flight | Review
Zemeckis’ ‘Flight’ is no Thriller, just Lazy 12-step Evangelism In Hollywood, is AA the new Scientology? Director Robert Zemeckis’ attempt at a “grown up” movie, Flight has the propagandistic tone and telos you’d expect
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Criterion Collection: Rosemary’s Baby | Blu-ray review
Just in time for Halloween, Criterion has remastered what’s long been culturally considered one of the most notable pieces of horror film making in cinematic history, the eerie classic, Rosemary’s Baby. Standing as not
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Cloud Atlas | Review
Atlas Sneezed: Epic Sci-Fi Flick Spans Eons of Space and Time with Overbearing Message In what has to be one of the most anticipated directorial pairings of 2012 is that of the Wachowski Siblings
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Life of Pi | Review
Bengali Buoyancy: CGI impresses, but story falls short in Ang Lee’s adventure The highlight of Ang Lee’s 3D, CGI-laden adrift-at-sea fantasy film Life of Pi might be the long, leisurely opening credit-sequence montage of
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Dredd 3D | Review
Judge Not: Travis Magnificently Revamps Dystopic Comic The mid 90’s was a time when comic book adaptations were neither highly regarded nor definitive blockbusters, and many will remember a 1995 title, Judge Dredd starring
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Jaws | Blu-ray Review
Jaws. The first summer blockbuster. The first film to reap the benefits of a massive 400 theater opening weekend release. The first film to really set television into action as a home invading movie
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People Like Us | Review
Alex Kurtzman’s Debut A Bombastic, Exercise in the Unsubtle With several successful (quality questionable) screenplays under his belt, Alex Kurtzman, the man who co-wrote the latest Star Trek (2009) reboot and, errr, Cowboys and
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Brave | Review
Bravery For Andrews Doesn’t Lead To Better Things Every time Pixar releases a film, animation fans euphorically rejoice, as they know John Lasseter and the gang would never steer us wrong. Well, that was
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