New Releases, week of 6/29/13: Achoo Resneezes Edition
I’ve been sick for the last three weeks, and it’s gone from being unpleasant to just downright annoying. After looking up my symptoms ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
Review: Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship
Sometimes when watching a movie I inexplicably zero in on one aspect of production and it paints my perception of the entire film. ...
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Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
During junior high and high school, I was a big fan of Matthew Sweet, whose music I still dig today. When I hear ...
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Review: The Internship
You may have seen The Onion skewering of The Internship as a fantastic film for 2005. It’s pretty funny, but the truth of the ...
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Review: After Earth
It hasn’t been so easy for M. Night Shyamalan since entering Hollywood. There is, of course, the infamous graph showing his downward spiral to ...
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Review: Now You See Me
I love magic. I always have. If you suspend your disbelief that magic’s not real (kind of like wrestling), it can take you ...
New Releases, week of 6/8/13: Hard Bodies Edition
This week we have a good amount of average films releasing this week. Some may like them more than others, but we’re talking ...
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Review: Violet & Daisy
There was a point in the mid-to-late 1990s when a bunch of lesser filmmakers tried to make movies like Quentin Tarantino. It was ...