Saturday, 18 May 2013 14:59
In a bit of casting genius, the latest Tyler Perry production titled Peeples features a cameo appearance by the enigmatic Melvin van Peebles (get it? Peebles - Peeples), a move so bold it would take an appearance from James Caan in a remake of Star Trek II ...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:15
Saying goodbye is a hard thing to do. Given that most television dramas overstay their welcome and most science fiction shows never get the chance to say hello, the fifth and final season of Fringe is one lucky dog. Fox essentially allowed this show - with a cut ...
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Sunday, 25 November 2012 13:27

I was in the theater set to watch the Viggo Mortensen crime drama A History of Violence back in the late summer of 2005. In that theater in a warm September afternoon I saw the first trailer for Brokeback Mountain. My initial ...
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Monday, 13 May 2013 09:49

You could never accuse JJ Abrams of not having courage. Here is a near 50 year old franchise with more television and cinematic entries than most in the world, with a rich history, and a ravenous and supporting fan base, and he decides to remake it. 2009’s ...
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Friday, 14 December 2012 23:59
From the pages of bestselling author Lee Childs’ novels, comes a new movie hero. His name is Jack Reacher, and while he doesn’t fly, wear tights, or posses any otherworldy super-human powers, his goals are the same as those sought by our lycra-tighted friends currently ...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012 12:48

After starring as the Hunchback in Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More, Klaus Kinski took the route of B-movie stardom. In fact, to his credit, 135 films under his belt before his death in 1991. He’s played Edgar Allen Poe, and he’s been ...
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Friday, 10 May 2013 11:00
“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” So articulates the charmingly demure socialite Daisy Buchanan from the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. As characterized by Fitzgerald, she had “the kind of voice that ...
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Friday, 04 January 2013 15:07
While it certainly isn’t high art and, at times, as awful as you expect it to be from the wrong-headed trailers, Texas Chainsaw 3D – being billed as the direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original (and the only in a long line of sequels to claim as such) – isn’t, much ...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 10:34

The first thing you need to know about Enter the Void is that it’s approach is very original as opposed to the standard narrative format. Most movies develop as they go, as if it in real time but you are eavesdropping - you’re the third wheel if you ...
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 19:01
You know Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon’s face. You just don’t know his name. You will, though. Mark my words. You will. Threatening enough for you? Well, it just might be. He plays, after all, a cold-blooded killer in Ariel Vroman’s The Iceman ...
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:14
Academy Award-winning filmmaker (turned producer here) Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) teams up with past and present members of the Eagles and produces a pretty solid documentary charting the band’s history. Since ...
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Monday, 24 September 2012 16:04

AWFUL. If I could get away with doing a single word review of this movie, it would be "awful." I can give credit to directors early on in their career who show potential, even if they make a bad film. In the early days of Martin Scorsese ...
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