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Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:48
Loron Hays
Safe House, directed by Daniel Espinosa, is exactly the formula you expect it to be. Action meets Thriller meets Spy vs. Spy. Unfortunately, Safe House plays it a bit too safe and, in spite of its engaging cast, is completely forgettable. If you’ve seen one spy-type thriller, then ...
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Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:22
Frank Wilkins
Ripped from the headlines of the Los Angeles Police Department’s late-1990’s corruption investigation known as the Rampart Scandal, brilliant noir writer James Ellroy’s story of Rampart narrows its focus down to Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), a crooked L.A. street cop who takes the ...
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 17:22
Frank Wilkins
With the release of The Woman in Black, director James Watkins addresses three particularly hot topics that have been searing the brainpans of we movie fans of late. First, will the film aid the re-launch of Hammer Film Productions, which had its heyday ...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:44
Frank Wilkins
Ever since playing the Albert Nobbs character in Simone Benmussa’s off-Broadway stage short back in 1982, the idea of bringing the story of a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland to the big screen has been a passion project ...
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:02
Frank Wilkins
Overtly throwback and unapologetically patriotic, Red Tails is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a band of “colored personnel” who fought through racism in America to fly as fighter pilots over Europe for the Army Air Corps during World War II ...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 20:25
Loron Hays
There are two trains of thought barreling toward each other when it comes to Contraband and both share the same track. One train speeds on a course that suggests actor Mark Wahlberg has outgrown this one-more-big-time-thrill-and-I’m-out-type flick and ...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:57
Frank Wilkins
With In the Land of Blood and Honey, first-time writer and director Angelina Jolie sets out to bring to the world’s attention the dangers of ethnocentric and nationalistic ideology and the devastating effects of doing nothing about it. While her grim ...
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Sunday, 08 January 2012 17:11
Loron Hays
The “found footage” phenomenon hits an all-time low with this budget-friendly piece of horror schlock. Mixing hand-held footage with scratchy camcorder video, The Devil Inside uses the medium of the stylized mockumentary well, but doesn’t have an ...
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Saturday, 07 January 2012 17:12
Frank Wilkins
Like its main character, Dee Rees’s Pariah is a fickle chameleon of a film, bearing a skin of many colors reflecting the viewer’s own world view. The coming-of-age drama will likely have a difficult time finding a wide audience as some will perceive it a...
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Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:48
Frank Wilkins
Awkwardly purposed and haphazardly constructed, Phyllida Lloyd’s biopic The Iron Lady takes a look at one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and influential political leaders, Great Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. While certainly a significant genre switch for ...
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Thursday, 22 December 2011 12:54
Loron Hays
Opening with a movie-within-a-movie sequence that promises actor Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, Hollywood action star, absolutely will not speak, The Artist, a silent film about Hollywood during the late 1920s as it transitions ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:33
Loron Hays
When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...
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Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:05
Frank Wilkins
The age-old debate of nature vs. nurture gets an unsettling examination in We Need to Talk About Kevin, British filmmaker Lynne Ramsey’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel of the same name. While the nature vs. nurture discussion typically initiates ...
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Sunday, 04 December 2011 13:13
Loron Hays
There are several things Steve McQueen’s Shame isn’t trying to be. Sexy is one of them. The titillating aspects of its explicit sexual content – as this is a movie about sex addiction – are icily downplayed in favor of a fascinating character ...
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Saturday, 10 September 2011 16:48
Frank Wilkins
After a promising opening scene, in which an attractive young woman (Jennifer Lynn Warren) slowly disrobes and slips into the murky backwaters of a Louisiana swamp before being stalked and dismembered by a rogue alligator ...
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Saturday, 21 May 2011 15:48
Frank Wilkins
Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader succeeds on far more levels than it fails. On its surface, it’s a fact-based narrative on the life of Kenyan Kimani Ng’ang’ a Maruge (known simply as Maruge), who tried to enroll in his country’s primary school...
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