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Movie Review: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) 25 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
While watching The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, I tried to keep track in my head the number of other — better — movies this one “borrows” from. It wasn’t easy to try and follow the ridiculous pl...
Movie Review: The Spectacular Now (2013) 23 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
Sutter is brash. Sutter is funny. Sutter has charisma. Sutter comes from a nice home and has a part-time job. Sutter is popular. Oh, yes. Sutter also drinks too much. Based on a novel by Tim Tharp and...
Movie Trailer: +1 (2013) 23 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Party time just got serious. And that’s putting it mildly as some very strange time-shifting, alternate world stuff is going on in the upcoming IFC Midnight film +1. Basically, during a massive univer...
Movie Review: The World’s End (2013) 22 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
The “Cornetto Trilogy”, as people started calling it when the prospect of a third film reared its head and we all patiently sat through “Paul,” is surely something to be studied. If you don’t like “Sh...
Movie Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) 20 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
While I am not crazy about a director including his own name in the title of a film (after all, we never saw a movie called “Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane” or “David Lean’s Great Expectations” or “Martin...
Movie Review: Kick-Ass 2 (2013) 19 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Let’s face it, the sheer existence of the numeral “2″ behind any film title automatically relegates said picture to the garbage heap of cinematic experiences (see “The Hangover Part 2” and “The Smurfs...
Movie Review: Jobs (2013) 19 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
While watching Jobs one cannot help but think back on the 1999 TNT made-for-TV movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates. Well, at leas...
Movie Review: Paranoia (2013) 18 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
When one titles a film using a human emotion or condition (i.e., “Frantic” or “Frenzy” or “Psycho” or “Vertigo“), the bar needs to be set fairly high. In the case of Paranoia, however, that bar could ...
Movie Trailer: Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters (2014) 15 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
I’m told Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters is not the new “Twilight,” although I’m very skeptical of that — the trailer released today by The Weinstein Company to the roar of teenaged girls everywhere te...
Movie Review: Trap for Cinderella (2013) 15 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Trap for Cinderella dramatically explodes with a fire in a tranquil French villa leaving Micky (Tuppence Middleton) with serious burns and a complete loss of her memory. Fortunately for Micky, her gua...
