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On DVD: Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ Great? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
The traditional love story/social drama gets upended Baz Luhrmann style, with flashy special effects, dancing, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jay Z music. This isn’t your grandma’s The Great Gatsby, but that’s...
On DVD: ‘Pain & Gain’ More Pain than Gain 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Michael Bay returns to his roots, sort of, with Pain & Gain, a low budget crime comedy-thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Tony Shalhoub. Please note that “low budget” ...
Review: Shaun, Fuzz Reach ‘The World’s End’ 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
First there was Shaun of the Dead. Then there was Hot Fuzz. And now there is The World’s End, which is a less funny version of Shaun of the Dead. Full of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and beer, The World’s E...
Review: Hatchets or Blenders, ‘You’re Next’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Hatchets. Knives. Crossbows. Wire. Blenders. Whatever weapon of choice, You’re Next. In the new horror film from the guys behind V/H/S, a family reunion meets a team of masked killers, and the team of...
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Review: What’s the Point? 22 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck star in the crime drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, a well made movie where the title is the most interesting part. Superbly acted and well written, the movie suffers from ...
Simon Pegg/Nick Frost on The World’s End, Cannibalism 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Simon Pegg. Nick Frost. Edgar Wright. The guys responsible for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and now The World’s End, which “concludes” their thematic trilogy of movies about idiots who must save themse...
Win Tickets to See Riddick in Seattle/Portland 20 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Riddick, the latest chapter of the groundbreaking saga that began with 2000′s hit sci-fi film Pitch Blackand 2004′s The Chronicles of Riddick reunites writer/director David Twohy (A Perfect Getaway, T...
Review: ‘No One Lives’, No One Cares 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Bad guys mess with the wrong man – an even badder guy – in the horror-thriller No One Lives, which means you’re left with a movie with no protagonists and no reason to care about who lives and who die...
Review: Racism, Baseball and Harrison Ford in ’42′ 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Race and sports collide in the feel-good drama 42, an entertaining if not particularly sophisticated story about the early career of Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in Major League Ba...
Review: ‘Shadow Dancer’ Lurks But Never Leaps 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
An active member of the IRA is recruited by MI5 to spy on her own family in the drama-thriller Shadow Dancer. Well acted and mildly alluring, the movie ends with a bang but otherwise remains too subtl...
