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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6 February 2010
After the giant successes which were the first two Harry Potter films, Chris Columbus’s newly revitalized career began to falter once more. Between Rent and I Love You, Beth Cooper, it seemed like the man who gave us Home Alone had finally lost his touch. But as his filmography demonstrates, …
5 November 2009
Based on the short story by Richard Matheson, The Box is Richard Kelly‘s third foray into cinema following the cult hit Donnie Darko and the underwhelming Southland Tales. If you were given a box with a button and told that pushing the button would kill someone you didn’t know and …
5 November 2009
I wish I had some sort of clever lead in to this, but you already know what the gist is. The movie’s called 2012 for god’s sake. The end of the world is coming, disaster ensues, and the master of the genre, Roland Emmerich is at the helm. Will he …
4 November 2009
After the success of The Polar Express and its annual re-releases, it was a sure bet that somebody else would look into adapting a piece of classic holiday fair with the slightly creepy CG motion-capture technique. Few thought, however, that it would be Robert Zemeckis, the director of the aforementioned …
11 September 2009
Before I get a chance to do all of the archive work for the site, getting all of the old projects uploaded with their set photos, DVD extras, etc. I wanted to take a moment and share a review I just finished writing for Diablo Cody’s latest film, Jennifer’s Body. …
