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Clash of the Titans
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"Your money would be better spent on lottery tickets." - my unfortunate movie companion to "Clash of the Titans".
After the above comment I do not think there is any more that needs to be said in... [more]
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Repo Men
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Debt is deadly. Especially when it is your vital internal organs you are financing. A visit from the repo men is what is in store for those who fail to make their monthly payments and well, get ready for a gory... [more]
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Cop Out
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To put it quite simply...the movie does not work. It has a storyline, about a baseball card that gets stolen, that branches out into so many directions your focus is forever lost. One second it's all about the... [more]
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The Losers
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As the credits rolled on "The Losers" something occurred to me, as bad as this film is people will enjoy it. This is not to say that the general movie going public has no taste in movies. It is simply that the... [more]
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The Runaways
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"Girl's don't play electric guitars". Wanna bet? The Runaways took the music scene by storm in 1975, paving the way for female "rock" musicians for decades to come and this film does just what it should to portray... [more]
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The Bounty Hunter
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As a bounty hunter it may be a dream come true to get the job of taking in your ex-wife. Especially when your feelings for her are from positive. Milo (Gerard Butler) takes great pleasure in performing this deed... [more]
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Greenberg
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Ben Stiller is Roger Greenberg in writer/director Noah Baumbach's newest film, "Greenberg". In this zany but honest film, 1970s neo-realism is the name of the game and everything from the zoom shots, coloring, drug... [more]
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Our Family Wedding
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A Black Man and a Mexican Woman are going to get married. Let the racial tensions begin, and never end. The film sets up the tension between the family's because of race/ethnicity but it forgets that there needs... [more]
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A Single Man
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The film takes you on a journey through a day in the life of a broken-hearted man. It is a somber piece of filmmaking with moments, shown through flashbacks or in present time, of great despair or incredible happiness.... [more]
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Brooklyn's Finest
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The camera cranes above in a wide aerial shot of the Brooklyn Projects. Large sterile identical buildings litter the ground of this place, mimicking the perception that a people, not people, inhabit their walls.... [more]
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The White Ribbon
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First, the audience is engulfed in the overpowering darkness of the screen. Then, slowly and languidly, the opening shot of a man riding his horse fades from black and makes its way onto the screen. Now, you are... [more]
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The Crazies
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There's something in the water and it's giving this small town in Iowa something to scream about, though I doubt you'll be screaming with them. The water supply in the small town of Ogden Marsh has been mysteriously... [more]
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Hot Tub Time Machine
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The premise is absolutely ridiculous. Come on, a time traveling hot tub, really? But it works wonders for this outrageous comedy that is at times vulgarly delightful and at others sweet on sentiment (the former... [more]
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Green Zone
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Where are those pesky WMD's? Good question. The answer is even better. In "Green Zone" an Army Chief (Roy Miller, played by Matt Damon) leads his Unit on the search for WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) in... [more]
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She's Out Of My League
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He's a 5, she's a 10. He's an unmotivated TSA worker at an airport. She is a successful and wealthy event planner. It is a seemingly impossible match but somehow Kirk (Jay Baruchel) and Molly (Alice Eve) make it... [more]
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Remember Me
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Young romance is sweet, at times simple, and altogether tragic. Tyler (Robert Pattinson) is dealing with the untimely passing of his brother, Michael. Ally (Emilie de Ravin) is haunted by the murder of her mother,... [more]
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The Book of Eli
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In a post-apocalyptic world the battle is not one of survival, but one of power through religion. The film begins in the all too familiar barren landscape of the atypical world brought to ash. A savage land full... [more]
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When In Rome
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A genuinely fun romantic comedy has arrived in 'When In Rome'. I can hardly believe it myself but it is true. The story follows Beth (Kristen Bell) to Rome to attend her sister's wedding. Beth is a workaholic... [more]
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Youth In Revolt
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"In movies, the good guys get the girls; in real life its usually the pricks," Nick candidly observes in his opening voice over. Without much more warning, we are thrust into a hyper-sexualized coming of age tale... [more]
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Shutter Island
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"We haven't heard the truth once yet, Chuck" - Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy
Sanity hangs by a thread on Shutter Island and it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate the sane from the insane,... [more]
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From Paris With Love
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Ahhh, an action buddy flick with panache. The quintessential pairing of an odd couple, to an extreme, is what we find in this film. On a mission that is never clear, with a plan that may as well be hatched out... [more]
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Dear John
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No one can forget the rush of a first love; the excitement, the uncertainty, and quite often, the resulting pain. Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) and John (Channing Tatum) meet on the beach while vacationing one summer.... [more]
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The Road
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As the film begins everything is idyllic. The scenery, the soundscape, even the characters look as if they are living in a garden of eden. Then the sounds change, the lights go out and the Man gets up to fill... [more]
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Alice In Wonderland
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Everyone in the film keeps referring to a place called Underland, not Wonderland. I could not agree more that this world Alice has once again fallen into is NO Wonderland for the wonder, adventure and magical spirit... [more]
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The Wolfman
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Staying true to B-movie aesthetics "The Wolfman" toys with the notion of serious horror and kitschy elegance. The hauntingly dark and forbearing countryside is engulfed in the mystery of a beast who hunts on the... [more]
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Valentine's Day
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Valentine's Day is a film about Los Angeles in love but it is also a film about Los Angeles. The film brings in Los Angeles as a character in the film by displaying specific landmarks (Hollywood Forever Cemetery),... [more]
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Invictus
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"Invictus", which means unconquered in Latin, is the title of a poem that enabled the great Nelson Mandela to endure whilst he was imprisoned for three decades in South Africa by apartheid forces. Invictus, the... [more]
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Legion
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Common literature has always taught us to root for the light and against the darkness. What happens then, when what is supposed to bring light to the world begins to wreak havoc on mankind? Can we really put our... [more]
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Daybreakers
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From the first blood curdling scream of a child a mere minute into the film you think to yourself...this should be an interesting ride. You are right. The plot is interesting. Almost the entire world population... [more]
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Leap Year
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There is only one reason to see this film: Matthew Goode as Declan. Not since Cary Grant graced the screen many moons ago has a male actor been so incredibly charming, funny, and quite frankly irresistible. He... [more]
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It's Complicated
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We do not need morals. Forget about being the better person. Put aside what is right because it may be fun to do wrong. It does not matter if you hurt someone else when they did it to you first. These are all... [more]
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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There comes a certain moment while watching a film when everything comes together. The experience has been and continues to be rewarding until the final frame passes on the screen. There is another moment that... [more]
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Avatar
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If a holy entourage consisting of Jesus, the prophet Muhammad, Buddha, Ra, and any other deity went out to catch a midnight showing of "Avatar" even they more than likely declared, "Yahweh!" at one point during... [more]
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