New Releases, week of 2/23/13: Jack Kirby Saves Edition
Ben Affleck’s Argo is the big release of the week given all the momentum it has heading into the Oscars. Based on the ...
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Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
Against almost all odds Live Free or Die Hard turned out to be a really good action movie. It had its flaws, and was ...
New Releases, week of 2/16/13: Bond… James Bond Edition
Today is the day that Skyfall hits DVD and Blu-ray. Not only is the movie badass, it was declared Best British Film at ...
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Review: The ABCs of Death
Ups and downs are expected when it comes to anthology films. Certain shorts won’t hit as hard as others, and tonal shifts are ...
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Review: Beyond the Hills
I find orthodoxy of all kinds scary, especially when clung to in resistance to inevitable change. There’s just something about groups and beliefs ...
Review: The We and the I
It’s funny to write this, but there are times that I think I understand young people less and less as I get older. ...
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Review: Reality
The alternate reading of the Pandora’s box myth is that hope is the worst possible thing that could have been left in that ...
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Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
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Review: Identity Thief
Jason Bateman. I love his work in Arrested Development, and some of the secondary characters he has played because he can be funny ...
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Review: Side Effects
I have a very love-hate relationship with Stephen Soderbergh. He made my least favorite film of all time, Bubble, and my least favorite film ...
New Releases, week of 2/9/13: My Bloody Valentine Edition
[UPDATE: Just received notice of a new addition to today’s new releases. The horror anthology V/H/S is available today on VHS.] All of your ...
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Review: Simon Killer
The title Simon Killer makes it seem like you’ll be watching a slasher movie or a serial killer movie. It recalls Talking Heads ...