Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is in a really tough spot. The film is the follow up to what is pretty much the most ...
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Review: Warm Bodies
Zombies are the new vampires (after vampires became the new zombies). With the walking dead taking over media industries, interest in zombies is ...
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Review: Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino and his style of filmmaking really don’t need an introduction. With a directorial career spanning over two decades and eight films ...
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Review: Stand Up Guys
Sometimes I take for granted the idea of earning moments. If a filmmaker wants you to feel something, he or she needs to ...
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Review: Sightseers
In a year where Great Britain has been celebrated by its Queen’s jubilee, a successful Olympics and the fiftieth anniversary of its greatest ...
Review: Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock is easily one of the greatest directors of all time and you would be hard pressed to find a person who ...
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Review: Rise of the Guardians
It’s nearly Christmas and that means the obligatory Christmas animated film from one studio or another. Sometimes you get a new Christmas classic ...
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Review: Lincoln
Depicting another person’s life has to be one of the most daunting jobs to take in Hollywood. Considering the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s ...
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Review: Beware of Mr. Baker
Beware of Mr. Baker is like the anti-Searching for Sugar Man. The latter chronicled Sixto Rodriguez, an obscure Detroit folk singer who inexplicably ...
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Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
There’s no real way to predict what you’re getting when watching one of the Twilight films. You either get a surprisingly corny and ...
Review: Wreck-It Ralph
Almost immediately, there’s a weird dissonance in Wreck-it Ralph, Disney’s love-letter to the 80s/90s age of arcades. From frame one, where the film ...
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Review: Informant
For most of America, Brandon Darby is not a household name. There are probably pockets of the South which recognize him, but in ...