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Epic is a really great animated movie. The movie is about a dad and his daughter. Mary Katherine (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) had to move in with her dad, who she does not really know. The dad is obsessed with trying to find these little creatures that live in the woods. He is more interested in f...
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This should have been a massive, misguided headache: stranger to subtlety Baz Luhrmann, director of the effervescent musical melodrama Moulin Rouge! and the guns a-blazing version of Romeo & Juliet decides to lend his stylized, campy sensibility to a 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s d...
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After seeing The Avengers last year, I felt bad for whatever Marvel movie had to go next because it clearly had some pretty big shoes to fill. I think they made the best decision having Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man 3 go first because of all the actors involved with the franchise, he’s the one...
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Premiering at last year’s Cannes Film Festival in the prestigious vanguard of movies “In Competition,” director Jeff Nichols’ third film, Mud, was surely too modest and commercial to win the Palme d’Or – though the 33-year-old made a splash at the festival in 2011 when his intense dra...
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One would never accuse famed press-shy, prodigal film genius Terrence Malick of being hurried in either his storytelling or his carefully chosen, infrequent projects. Known in shorthand as the young 1970s turk who followed that decade’s downbeat, existential turn in American cinema to its lowes...
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The film Disconnect might serve well for anyone engaging in anything to do with the internet. You may want to educate yourself with this one as a precursor to participating in any on-line activity. I found it to be one of those experiences that both educates and scares the social networking fun r...
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There is a point where even the staunchest defender can be tested. Put bluntly, I actually like the Scary Movie series, to the point where I enjoy the later entries over the earlier ones. Whether it is simply the abject silliness and pointlessness of them, or the warm and welcome presence of both...
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It has been a while since a film this unique has come out. Starbuck is a French film set in Quebec about a character named David Wozniak who is in his forties and is being haunted by a past decision that he made to donate sperm while in his twenties. It is a story that is very well done and extre...
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Luke (Ryan Gosling) has the recklessly cool job of motorbike stunt driver in traveling carnivals; back home once again in Schenectady, New York, he finds that he has left behind a one-year-old baby boy with his former fling Romina (Eva Mendes) and sets out to make right by doing wrong in the inti...
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I’ve been a fan of the original Evil Dead trilogy for almost twenty years, so when I got word of a remake, I was skeptical about how good it would be. Even the fact that Fede Alvarez’s vision for one of my favorite movies was fully sanctioned and produced by the original writer/director Sam R...
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Once in a while, a movie comes along that makes such a big impact, both in the industry and among the general public, that it forever alters the cinematic landscape. One such film is 1993's Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the bestselling novel by the late Michael Crichton...
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