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They star no A-listers and are about stories you have likely never heard of. How refreshing is something new in the sea of remakes and rehashes this summer has dumped on our shores?
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No plot, no real acting, too loud, too offensive, too stupid, too many foreground and background changes, too many cameos, over inflated, over done, over length, and I’m over it.
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As far as action movies go, it’s fun and non-challenging. “The Green Lantern” is good old fashion fun where you know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy.
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In the event that you have forgotten a favorite among the reading lists of your elementary school, let me sum up the premise of Mr. Popper’s Penguins. A painter and …
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Summer sequel overload is just beginning folks. Step right up and have a go at which sequel you think would suck less this weekend. Hangover 2 look too contrived? You …
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Consider this a fair sampling of the odds and ends one sees at South by Southwest. One movie stars a bubbly Kristen Wiig weighed down by the economic depression in …
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I did not want Splinters. I have immensely disliked sports movies for as long as I can remember. The exception is Bring It On, only because it is nothing but …
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Warning: This documentary contains as many sponsors as your average summer movie blockbuster. That factoid kicks off the inquisitive look at the wide world of marketing. The good, the bad, …
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With the release of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold this week, the advertising industry will be holding its breath. It is the wide-spread return of wild-man documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, …
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The man with a message, director Sidney Lumet, passed away this weekend on April 9th. The living legend had been working until the end, contributing to a documentary in 2009 …
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Daring yet charmingly British, “Weekend” boldly addresses the issues of young love in the modern era and the problems facing homosexual love. It is an emotional, raw story regardless of the boundaries of time and discrimination. I can’t ask for anything better from a romance.
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Almost three years into the Great Recession, Americans are getting hit with a new financial trend that will likely burst in a few year’s time: the “recession comedy.” It’s a …
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