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X-Men: First Class- A review
Wow, was X-Men: First Class a good movie! It was brave enough to prescribe to the summer blockbuster period of openings, with the plump June 3rd weekend, while also insisting on a period production design that gave the whole piece a sense of great detail.
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Thor- I liked it!
And I thought there were no event movies slated for 2011 ( Read more... ) -
True Grit: A Review of the 2010 remake
True Grit achieved the paradoxical distinction when I saw it in 2010; it at once became the funniest movie of 2010, and the most compelling drama.
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Sucker Punch- a review
Have you ever held off from seeing a movie due to a sprawling negative backlash from critics only to actually check it out and find out that you in fact grasped the movie and thereby dissented from the court of public opinion?
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127 Hours- a natural wonder
As I sit here sipping a cup of hot chocolate I picked up at Dunkin' Donuts, I couldn't help but think about the opening title sequence to 127 Hours. As the film opens, we see James Franco as Aron Ralston driving off into the night in his truck, passing a McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Taco Bell and Starbucks, among other places before leaving ( Read more... ) -
The Green Hornet - nesting a capable start to 2011
My biggest worry going into The Green Hornet was that Seth Rogen would feel obligation to tone it down ( Read more... ) -
The King's Speech- a review
I thought of the movie Amadeus while watching The King's Speech. I know that's kind of a stretch, and it doesn't really have anything to do with the plot of both movies, per se. But I remember how Geoffrey Rush seemed to conduct King George VI's speech much like Mozart would conduct a symphony orchestra. And that's when I realized, this movie wasn' ( Read more... ) -
Black Swan- a review
While watching Black Swan with Blake recently, I was fully aware of why I was enjoying it; it was loopy, the dialogue was indulgently high-context, and scenarios seemed to be concocted deliberately for the reaction of a crowded theatre. In other words, Black Swan was more concerned with portraying characters as they'd behave in a movie, not in ( Read more... )
