Review: Turbo
When you see a trailer for yet another anthropomorphic children’s movie you get a little suspicious, especially when that movie isn’t made by ...
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Review: The Conjuring
The Conjuring has a bit of built in hype thanks to the MPAA. While nothing in the film should warrant a rating above PG-13 ...
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Review: Pacific Rim
When talking about Pacific Rim you really have to start with expectations. Expectations for this particular film were all over the place. Those who ...
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Review: Only God Forgives
Anyone who goes into Only God Forgives expecting Drive 2: Bangkok Drift is going to be disappointed. Drive was the unlikely combination of ...
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Review: Grown Ups 2
The original Grown Ups is easily one of the worst movies made in the past decade. It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t interesting. It wasn’t ...
Review: It’s Me It’s Me
Doppelgangers are the stuff of horror and of comedy. It would be uncanny to see yourself as a stranger — the self’s own ...
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Review: The Heat
The Heat is an odd movie. It’s a buddy cop film with two women at the center. That alone should be a breath ...
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Review: A Band Called Death
It’s weird what manages to slip through the cracks. In last year’s Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, the music of Sixto Rodriguez ...
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Review: The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola is definitely a talented filmmaker who may one day have a career as stirring and epic as her father’s, but even ...
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Review: World War Z
World War Z had a troubled production. After the rights for the books were procured by Brad Pitts production company almost everything went wrong. ...
Review: Man of Steel
I’m a staunch fan of Superman Returns (more on that in a future post), but the rest of the world wasn’t so much. Thus, ...
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Review: The Purge
The great thing about the ‘human horror’ genre, the type of horror where the bad guy isn’t a machete-wielding zombie death machine or ...