Review: Pain & Gain
Yesterday I pointed everyone to the article that Pain & Gain is based on because you’re going to see this movie and you’re ...
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Review: Iron Man 3
When Marvel began its Avengers experiment with cinematic continuity, all the way back with the original Iron Man, few could have expected it to have morphed into ...
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Reviews: Whitewash and Big Bad Wolves
I like film festivals for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is the way films are forced into context with ...
New Releases, week of 4/27/13: Gangsta’s Paradise Edition
This week’s biggest release is arguably the re-re-re-re-re-release of Jurassic Park (IN 3D!!!), oh, there’s new stuff this week also? Well…then the biggest ...
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Review: Oblivion
A hard-boiled science-fiction in this day and age is somewhat hard to come by. We’ve had the cerebral Inception, among others, but nothing truly ...
New Releases, week of 4/20/13: Djangowned Edition
Howdy, folks, and welcome to this week’s new releases, a sort of pre-Tribeca reprieve for me. This week boasts two genre deconstructions. The ...
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Review: Kill Team
The war in Afghanistan is the longest military conflict in which the United States has been involved. The operation is nowhere near as ...
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Review: Dark Touch
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist’s pal Steve over at Unseen Films is ...
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Review: Let the Fire Burn
In 1985 there was a tragic stand-off between the extremist Africa-American group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. At the end, 11 members ...
New Releases, week of 4/13/13: Historical Hot Dog Edition
It’s another slow week on the DVD/Blu-ray release front. The most high-profile title is the disappointing Hyde Park on Hudson, which features Bill ...
Review: From Up on Poppy Hill
The non-fantasy based Studio Ghibli films are pretty limited. In fact if we rule out My Neighbors the Yamadas considering its animation style and ...
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Review: It’s a Disaster
There seems to be more and more movies about the end of the world these days. Maybe it’s a reflection of how vulnerable ...