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Saturday, 14 May 2011 17:08
Frank Wilkins
Few events offer as much potential for comedic effect as a girl’s wedding day. Put a group of overbearing women (who don’t know one another) together with a bitchy, on-edge bride expecting the planets to align...
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Friday, 23 September 2011 10:46
Loron Hays
Originally released in 1996, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners is the only heir-apparent to the throne of ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’ as it captures Burton’s delicate balance of gothic horror and comedy so well. There’s also a dynamic story...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:09
Loron Hays
Go ahead and expel that breath of anticipation for a real good Sasquatch film, Horror Hounds and Houndettes. Boggy Creek is a monstrous disappointment. First-time writer/director Brian T. Jaynes assembles a crack-team of novice filmmakers and walks away with a ...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:38
Christopher Symonds
Today, remakes are an epidemic, so it might come as a surprise to some folk who turned this 80s gangster flick into a revered cult hit that it is, in fact, a remake. Unlike a lot of today’s unnecessary re-dos, Brian De Palma’s contemporizing of...
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Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:23
Loron Hays
Announced with the loud and proclaiming carnival fanfare of “Casey Jones”, the opening of Walt Disney’s Dumbo, now celebrating its 70th anniversary, defines the sweetness that is its very soul ...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:02
Loron Hays
Come gather round, children, it is cinematic confession time. I love me some old-school kung-fu films. I love them for being so riddled with clichés and candy coated cornball enthusiasm and extreme violence and general goofiness. Films like ...
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Wednesday, 04 May 2011 19:11
Loron Hays
There are so many ways in which a modern movie about a hammer-wielding god from Old Norse mythology could fail. Oh, so many ways. Thankfully, under the kinetically skilled direction of Shakespearean wonder-kid Kenneth Branagh...
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Friday, 03 June 2011 07:26
Loron Hays
Director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Kick-Ass) has done it again. In what goes down as an epic battle between differing philosophies and alternate histories, Vaughn has delivered the perfect comic book movie (let me stress that: the perfect COMIC BOOK movie) ...
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Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:42
Loron Hays
When Will Ferrell steps out of the comedic roles and dusts off his dramatic dancing shoes, there is a bit of magic that happens. The cartoon charades stop and, for once, we get an honest performance from him. It’s these ...
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Saturday, 09 April 2011 18:18
Frank Wilkins
Once upon a time, in the frozen forests of Finland, there lived away from any certain village a little feral girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her father was excessively fond of her...
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Monday, 05 September 2011 14:56
Loron Hays
Sometimes a brother’s protection comes at a mighty high cost. Other times, it’s as easy as a classic double cross from a couple of heels. Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing is a dark and deadly game of gangster’s following the hat. Whose hat? ...
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:53
Loron Hays
Look, Raising Arizona has its haters. Many cannot look past its lampoonish treatment of reality. Many more can't accept Nicolas Cage's performance as anything more than a physical performance of a Walt Disney cartoon. Those critical views ...
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:03
Loron Hays
With their brilliant visuals and unmatched crisp dialogue firmly in place, the announcement of The Coen Brothers’ arrival onto the scene circa 1985 was heard loud and clear. Blood Simple was and is, having been released on blu-ray ...
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Sunday, 04 September 2011 10:13
Loron Hays
Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike is one of the few films ever made that absolutely deserves to be touted as a visual tour-de-force. From its spirited beginning to its cattle-slaughtering end, the film’s moving camerawork and inventive ...
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Sunday, 04 September 2011 09:30
Loron Hays
It’s disappointing to be letdown by a film that wants to be warmly received by all its audiences. While not ever as sharp or as blissful as Adventureland, the aim for its emotional appeal is the same. And, yet, it doesn’t quite make the mark. ...
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Saturday, 03 September 2011 19:08
Loron Hays
Suffer the Sadomasochistic! Murder the Merrymakers! Court the Claustrophobic! Your perfect host for the evening’s anguish has arrived! Turning the tables on a fugitive-turned-party crasher is done deliciously in writer/director ...
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Saturday, 26 March 2011 16:19
Frank Wilkins
As an actor, Thomas McCarthy has gone largely unrecognized, toiling away in a long laundry list of generic character roles that’s no fewer than two or three scroll depths on IMDB: Meet the Parents, Little Fockers, The Wire, Law & Order, etc. We...
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 18:34
Loron Hays
You’re groaning already. I know you are. Deep down inside, there’s a part of your soul that cannot believe there is yet another retelling, respooling, redux, retread deluxe (the KING SIZED) version of Charlotte Brontë’s...
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