Thursday, 02 February 2012 21:59
Really good horror is hard to pull off. It takes restraint, attention to story, and a deft director to handle the many, many mechanics of strong atmosphere. Director Lucky McKee, behind the camera for The Woman, does exactly that and produces one of the ...
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Friday, 03 February 2012 08:40
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, 22 October 2011 16:04
Boo! Paramount is at it again; third straight year and third straight sequel to their and America’s seemingly favorite paranormal phenomenon. While the creep factor is still solidly in place for the patient viewer, the answers provided by Paranormal Activity 3 to the ...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012 11:31
The Grey is a survivalist’s Holy Bible. It looks unassuming and, chances are, you’ll roll in to it not expecting much, but – lo and behold – hell hath no fury like humans and their will to live. It’s a tight story without an inch of flab and, with strong ...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012 10:51
At a whopping 85 years of age and with not a single stand of visible gray hair, Wings, directed by William Wellman, is a marvel of the film industry. Of course you know its history as the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture. That was in 1927. We all do ...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:44
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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Sunday, 22 January 2012 10:03
Opening with a three-minute reminder of where we’ve been with the previous installments, Underworld Awakening, rather surprisingly, soon ditches its celebrated mythology of werewolf vs. vampire and lets the human beings weigh in on the bloody war ...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:12
What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a dude in a monster suit? Hint: the action takes place in Japan. That’s right. Godzilla, the mother of all mega-monster movies, is returning to run rampage through your home entertainment ...
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:02
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
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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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:05
Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, does more to address the complex topic of illegal drugs in and out of this country than the actual “war” on drugs does. Considering the largely naïve and inadequate government policies since ...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:57
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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