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Looper: Time travel that won't fry your brain
Looper is a movie with interesting ideas that pose many questions. At the core of the movie is a plot about people named loopers who are people from the present time hired to kill people from the...
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Action perfection has a new name in Dredd 3D
What makes a five star movie? A five star movie is generally a movie that achieves everything it sets out to do. Otherwise, it is a movie that is just so incredibly entertaining that I couldn't...
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Frankenweenie: A film for one season
The color is orange. Leaves blow in the wind across a yard where flowers once bloomed. Somewhere in the distance a rake can be heard scratching against the concrete as leaves are rustled into a big...
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Taken 2: Taken for a silly ride
Sometimes a movie is just funny enough to work. It doesn't necessarily mean the movie is intended as a comedy, but it just ends up that way. Taken 2 is labeled as an action movie and in some...
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Argo: A true thriller
Argo is a story so insane that it must be true. So, of course, it is. Argo is the real life story of what happened in Iran in 1980. More specifically it is about a hostage situation that erupted when...
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Wreck-It-Ralph: A tribute to the gamers of the world
Watching the trailer for Wreck-It-Ralph is a pretty good test for whether or not you may want to watch the movie. If at some point when watching the trailer you make a gasp and point at the screen...
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The Man with the Iron Fists fights through it all
The story of The Man with the Iron Fists is a simple one: this person is angry at that person and they fight. That's it. Now, you would think from that description that I didn't enjoy...
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James Bond is back to old habits in Skyfall
There is a certain checklist of things that we all know must appear in a James Bond movie. There are the Bond girls, the gadgets made by Q, the Astin Martin car, the opening credits set to a new Bond...
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Lincoln: The easy path
There is Lincoln the man and Lincoln the myth. There is even Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. What Lincoln was really like we may never know. However, from his speeches and various quotes and...
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Life of Pi: A journey within our own self
When I walked out of the theater for Life of Pi I felt cheated. In the beginning of the film we are told that the story we are about to hear can make the listener believe in God. I expected...
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Hitchcock doesn't quite capture the master's brilliance
Hitchcock is possibly the most entertaining director who ever lived. It is always a joy to spot his cameos in his own films. His trailers, hosted by himself, are always good for a laugh. He found a...
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Hollywood goes mental in Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook works best when it is a movie about people with mental illnesses. The movie begins at a psychiatric hospital where Bradley Cooper's Pat is about to be released. He has been...
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Flight never really soars
If someone does two really bad things that could potentially hurt lots of people but doesn't and then does one really good thing that helps a lot of people does it excuse the previous bad behavior?...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an adventure worth taking
Before setting out on an adventure there are some things you will need. Firstly, you need an epic quest to set yourself on. In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey the quest is to reclaim a home and all...
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Les Misérables: A stage to screen success
Les Misérables is as musical as musicals get. A few spoken words are uttered at various moments in the movie, but they are rare and come in between lots and lots of singing. Emotion is not shown in...
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Django Unchained: Fun in harsh times
You wouldn't think a movie about slavery would be fun. Normally, you'd be right. Normally, doesn't take into account Django Unchained. Django Unchained is a very fun and funny movie involving...
View ArticleTop 10 favorite movies of 2012
There isn't really such thing as a "best" movie. The "best" movie is different for every person. We are all unique. We all have our favorites. So this list that you are about to...
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John Dies at the End or something like that
I’ll confess that I don’t fully understand the plot of John Dies at the End. Somewhere around the point where John dies, not at the end of the movie, or maybe he isn’t dead...
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Cops turn superheroic in Gangster Squad
Will Beall, writer of Gangster Squad, also wrote an as yet unused script for a Justice League movie. That should come as no surprise to anyone who watches Gangster Squad. This is as much a superhero...
View ArticleAhnuld versus Sly: The box office beatdown
If you think back to the biggest names in action of the 1980s it is impossible not to think of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. One was Conan, The Terminator, and a host of other 80's...
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