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True Blood Season 5 Premiere Review
After nearly a year, True Blood has returned in all its bloody glory. With the last few season (and books…
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Review: “The Cabin In The Woods” Is A Brilliant And Bloody Treat
If you were to ask film buffs what got them into movies in the first place, the most prominent answer…
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Titanic 3D Review
Though it never gets old seeing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet take the screen as Jack and Rose, two unlikely…
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BluRay Review: “War Horse”
In A Nutshell: Steven Spielberg shows the horrors of war through the eyes of a remarkable horse and his long lost…
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Review: “The Hunger Games” Hits The Mark
I enjoyed the Harry Potter films. I dug the hell out of Lemony Snicket. I didn’t respond well to Twilight, but…
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Review: “John Carter” Makes The Old New Again
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those…
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BluRay Review: “Game of Thrones” Season One
I won’t be the first person to note that we are in a Golden Age of scripted television. The current…
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Review: “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey”
When I first heard about Being Elmo‘s premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, I marked it as a film…
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BluRay Review: “The Three Musketeers” Is Campy Fun
Director Paul WS Anderson has made a career out of making real dumb movies based on genre properties. Alien vs…
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BluRay Review: “J Edgar” Is Brutally Awful
It is incredibly difficult for me to think of a film that is as completely bereft as J Edgar. The…
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Water For Elephants Review
Water for Elephants has all the makings of a typical love story, forbidden love, a charming young man, a beautiful…
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‘Black Pond’ Review
Not as dark as the title suggests, this black comedy/drama is a charming, quirky and moving portrait of a dysfunctional…
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BluRay Review: “The Thing”
If Howard Hawks’ Thing was about Cold War paranoia and John Carpenter’s Thing was about slow burn horror, 2011’s Thing…
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Review: “The Artist”
If you follow me on Twitter or read my write up of the 2011 Oscar nominees, you may have gotten…
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Underworld Awakening Review
Although no one thought it possible, Kate Beckinsale is back and sexier than ever in the fourth installment of the…
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BluRay Review: “Sid And Nancy”
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that most bio-pics are the same. The film’s subjects are as interchangeable…
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Blu-Ray Review: “Contagion” Is Absolutely Terrifying
At first glance, Contagion looks like a hip throwback to the disaster films of the 70s such as Towering Inferno…
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Review: “Moneyball” Is Smooth And Confident
Moneyball is the perfect family movie for families with nearly grown kids. Nothing is too offensive, but the corners haven’t…
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Review: “War Horse” Is A Good Ol’ Fashioned Tear Jerker
Director Steven Spielberg is widely known as a master of audience manipulation, prone to sentimentality that makes him equally beloved…
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Review: “Hugo” Brings Magic Back To The Movies
“I could recognize the sound of a movie projector anywhere.” That line is spoken at one point during Hugo,…
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