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Critic Review

Movie Review: Evil Dead Remake is Sadly Another Evil Retread

April 5, 2013

Evil Dead (1981) is a true cinematic classic, full of genre-defining cinematic touchstones, the emerging talent of Sam Raimi (Darkman, Spider-Man) and the chin of Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice). The anecdotes behind [...]

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Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen – A Genuine ‘Die Hard’ Sequel

March 23, 2013

The last Die Hard was so bad, that it should have been stripped of the much beloved franchise name and placed in front of Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day, Shooter) latest [...]

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Movie Review: Stoker – A Beautiful, Bloody and Disturbing Loss of Innocence

March 16, 2013

Director Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) returns to his signature of revenge-themed stories with Stoker, a brilliant spring time distraction in the horror genre that is splendidly eerie as much [...]

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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ is a weak ‘Army of Darkness’ remake

March 10, 2013

If you wondered how a sniveling, cowardly man became the great Wizard of Oz, then director Sam Raimi’s latest film, Oz, The Great and Powerful explains it in this latest [...]

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Movie Review: A Good Day to Die Hard – Death Would Be Better For This Cowboy

February 14, 2013

From its Valentine’s Day release date to its 97-minute run time, A Good Day to Die Hard has “cash grab” written all over it. It’s on deck for a major opening weekend, [...]

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Side Effects – Steven Soderbergh’s directing career ends on a high note

February 11, 2013

Side Effects marks the retirement of Steven Soderbergh as a director, the end of a magnificent and diverse career. It’s been a blast seeing such an assault of memorable cinema [...]

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Identity Thief – Killing Crime (and Comedy) with Kindness

February 10, 2013

Many crimes leave the victim feeling violated, but there are few that are as frustrating as identity theft. In this current world of plastic money and vast supplies of personal [...]

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Warm Bodies Review: The Heart Still Beats in this Walking Dead

February 2, 2013

Up until now 99.9% of zombie movies are a one-way street to destruction and relentless survival. There’s no hope for a cure because it’s all part of the design to [...]

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Silver Linings Playbook is a gameplan well coached and executed

November 24, 2012

Self-help and improvement are never easy tasks. They take hard work, persistence, and dedication from the individual. That person also needs the support of family, friends, and nurturing care to [...]

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Review: Argo – The Kind of Spy Film We Can’t Get Enough Of

October 14, 2012

Every once in a while a film is everything you hope it would be. Take Argo for example; the concept was as unique as they come. A CIA extractor, Tony Mendez (Ben [...]