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Slow Build
Stoker Starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode Korean director Chanwook Park is something of a cult icon in the film world. His major contribution to cinema came in the form of a tense, mind-blowing, psychotic movie known as … Continue reading
Best of its Ilk
Jack the Giant Slayer Starring Elanor Tomlinson, Nicholas Hout and Ewan McGregor Disappointment set in with “Oz the Great and Powerful.” It felt like a real missed opportunity for something grand, epic and fun. Part of my complaint came from … Continue reading
Artificial and Impotent
I find myself at a sort of cinematic crossroads. I don’t know how many more trips to the movies I can make if the current trends continue. This is difficult to write, because at my core, I am a movie … Continue reading
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Throwing a Hip, Not a Punch
Snitch Bullet to the Head The Last Stand A Good Day to Die Hard Parker Action films: a requiem. The action film is dead. The once proud genre has been a mainstay of the movies ever since the word “motion” … Continue reading
Low Aspirations
Beautiful Creatures Z i l c h ! Starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis Who has gone to the movies and been unaware exactly what you were going to see? Back in the day, it wasn’t such a … Continue reading
X and Y
A Good Day to Die Hard Safe Haven 1/2 star I’m not sure who deserves to be told to “go screw themselves” more: Bruce Willis or Nicholas Sparks. After watching “A Good Day to Die Hard” and “Safe Haven,” I … Continue reading
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Lacking Tension
Side Effects Starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law There’s a great film waiting to be made about our pill-popping society and the abhorrent lack of ethics on display, from doctors who try to solve problems one prescription at a … Continue reading
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Endorsement or Warning?
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Starring Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Famke Janssen There’s a certain art to tak-ing a classic tale and modernizing it for more contemporary audiences. Making something hip from something antiquated is nothing new. “Hansel and Gretel: … Continue reading
Painfully Average
Parker Starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte I like a good crime film—the kind with disreputable people in a perpetual state of double-cross, stabbing each other in the back for large sums of blood money. Richard Stark’s “Parker” … Continue reading
Top-Notch Pedigree
Silver Linings Playbook Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro Mental illness fuels a lot of independent films. In fact, I could make a strong argument that roughly 38 percent of festivals are programmed with movies about people suffering from … Continue reading
