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Movie Review: Diva Evil Queen Guns for Rockin’ Snow White
I always say a movie is only as good as its villain, and Charlize Theron is deliciously evil as the Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman. The revisionist take on the Grimm tale is, well, very...
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Redneck Princess on the Bayou: A Movie Review of “Mud”
McConaughey guns for an Oscar in this moody Southern novella – he’s a criminal on the run with a big catfish in his pants for Redneck Princess Reese Witherspoon. I have to say the two best movies I’ve...
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Iron Man 3: Give Me Robert Downey Jr. BACK!!
Superhero movies make me feel queasy – like that time I ate those day old McNuggets and the sweet chili sauce had been out too long. They make me queasy, because I suffered through some of those truly...
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The Great Gatsby Review: It’s OK to Be a Stalker When You’re Leonardo DiCaprio
Did you have to read The Great Gatsby in high school? I remember it being a bright spot on our syllabus of American Lit 101 for two reasons: A. It was short B. It was kind of fun Trust me when we...
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Star Trek: Let’s Talk About Spock’s Eyebrows
For Star Trek Into Darkness, I’m going to start with the conclusion: the movie is attractive and clever – the dazzling effects way overshadow a few small flaws. After Avatar I think Hollywood didn’t...
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The Hangover Part 3: Worth Your Time or Cinematic Dingleberry?
So I wanted to turn my brain off for a couple of hours tonight, and I had the choice of Fast and Furious 6 or The Hangover Part 3. I went with Zach, Brad and the Wolfpack. As this is obviously just...
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“After Earth” Review: Hey Buddy, Lay Off the CGI!
On the heels of The Karate Kid remake, Jaden Smith stars with his father in M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi coming-of-age pic After Earth. I’ll be honest, from the trailers this movie looked like a...
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“The Internship” Review: Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan Battle the Millennials
Vince Vaughan was one of the writers of this light-hearted summer comedy, and I believe the movie came to be from a conversation between Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan over a couple of Coronas at some...
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Word War Z Review: Grizzled Brad Pitt Battles Zombie Apocalypse… MEH
The thing about zombie movies is they are supposed to be cheesy, and World War Z is a veritable cheese fondue of zombie insanity. The zombies in this movie don’t lurch but instead sprint at their...
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Sandra and Melissa Bring the HEAT
This week I’ll start with the conclusion: this was pretty funny. Much funnier, for me, than the other recent Melissa McCarthy vehicle Identity Thief. Probably I will get this DVD, because I want to...
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Prisoners: WORST. THANKSGIVING. EVER.
Someday historians are going to unearth the movies of 2012-2013 and say the movies reflect a time of dreary pessimism in the USA. You have sci-fi movies about a dystopian future that kinda sucks...
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“Don Jon” Review: ScarJo vs. JoGo Score a Solid Hit
In Old School Hollywood terminology “A-List” actors are the ones thought capable of “Opening a Picture.” A-Listers are your Streeps, your Will Smiths, and your Brad Pitts—bankable actors that get the...
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“GRAVITY” Review – Dizzying and Electric
NOTE TO SELF: do not become an astronaut. Gravity made me a little dizzy, and crushed any teensy desire I ever had ever to venture into orbit. I don’t even want to ride a Boeing 787, much less deal...
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“RUSH” Review for Those Who Don’t Know F1 Racing (Like Me)
Watching a movie about F1 racing for North Americans probably has the same lack of appeal that baseball movies have for Europeans—trust me when I say that the last time I gave a rat’s ass tail about...
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Machete Kills: Perfectly Ridiculous
I wish I had a few cocktails before going to see Machete Kills, it was perfectly ridiculous and truly an IMPOSSIBLY GLAMOROUS kind of movie—then again I like artfully bad movies. I think the director...
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The FIFTH Estate: Is Julian Assange the John Lennon of Hackers or a Morally...
It was really funny today, I had bought tickets to see the Carrie remake, but walked into the wrong theater. Then it turned out to be The Fifth Estate and not Carrie, but Benedict Cumberbatch’s...
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I DID see Carrie also, and I’ll write the review tomorrow. If you are debating whether to see Carrie or The Fifth Estate, I’ll say I thought The Fifth Estate was slightly better. I was pleasantly...
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You Can Remake CARRIE, but You Can’t Remake Its ZEITGEIST
Movie remakes can work, but something I realized watching the remake of the 1976 horror classic Carrie is that you can recreate a script and jazz it up with some modern CGI; however, you cannot...
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“12 Years a Slave”… Into the “Schindler’s List” File You Go!
So the much-lauded 12 Years a Slave is out in most of the country now, and after viewing I’m throwing 12 Years into my SCHINDLER’S LIST FILE. This is my file for movies that are “good,” but so...
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“Thor: The Dark World” : For Fanboys Only?
Somehow I successfully avoided the Thor series until now, but being the only major release coming out this week I thought I’d give it a go. I found it relatively easy to follow despite never viewing a...
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