With two films coming out in the same holiday season, 2011 is a busy year for Steven Spielberg. After the joyful adventure romp that was Tintin, are audiences ready for a more emotional journey?
War Horse Review
By Ryan Hamelin
Movie Grade: A
The first thing that becomes apparent as John Williams’ instantly classic …
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Its been a while since we last took a ride with Ethan Hunt, leader of the Impossible Mission Taskforce. Its also been awhile since Tom Cruise had much in the way of action hero clout. With Brad Bird‘s first live action feature film, do we have the finest Mission Impossible …
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For many, David Fincher‘s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is their most anticipated film of the year. That’s why it’s not surprising that The New Yorker chose to publish their review early. Due to backlash from that review, and a strengthening of movie critic embargoes, I’m only …
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When adventure calls… you get, a kid with a red tuft of hair? Apparently Tintin, a character created by the late Herge, is an icon in those mystical lands across the ocean, a la Europe. In America, however, he’s never really caught on, and so the studio decided to debut …
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Robert Downey Jr. is a man with quite a full plate. Now with two working franchises going simultaneously (he’s got The Avengers this summer and Iron Man 3 the following year just for starters) the man is in high demand. With that in mind, it’s surprising that Warnerbros. managed to …
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I’m sure you’ve heard about the NC-17 indie drama coming out this season… No? Well it stars Michael Fassbender and seems to have the whole independent community buzzing like bees. Fox Searchlight has decided to release the film with its brutal NC-17 rating intact. But is that the whole story, …
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22 September 2011
The beginning of each Oscar season is hard to pin down. It used to be November and December were the creme de la creme of the awards fare, but the start date has been pushing ever so slowly backward, into October, and now, into September itself. There’s a lot of …
6 May 2010
If you’ve think you’ve got it hard, look no further than John C. Reilly. The man seems to be getting typecast in the loser role, but at least, on occasion, he appears to be having fun with it. Though this comedy doesn’t come out until the middle of the summer, …
24 March 2010
For an animated film, it’s hard work to be recognized these days. Between Pixar and the re-emergence of Disney’s 2D animation, not to mention Blue Sky Studios with their Ice Age franchise, there’s not a whole lot of room for new blood. Then you have the subject of Dragons, a …
