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Movie Review: Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror is a spectacular movie! Every minute of it was great. I really liked it because there are a lot of cool, exciting, and emotional parts. I like how...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Kid with a Bike
As an American movie lover, I had to get into a French state of mind before watching The Kid with a Bike. Not just in the sense of the challenges of getting the...[Read More]
Movie Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Don’t let the title fool you. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is not a documentary about globetrotting Western fishermen casting their rods in various Middle Easter...[Read More]
Looking Back at Giallo: A Primer
In 1963, Italian horror director Mario Bava made his last black and white film. The Girl Who Knew Too Much heralded the arrival of a film genre that would have ...[Read More]
Ranking Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy Films
I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of Ray Harryhausen than yours truly. As a kid, I was captivated by the characters and creatures he brought to...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Hunger Games Certainly Not Starving After Record-Breaking Win
And they say no one reads anymore…well, people were certainly lining up to catch the big screen debut of The Hunger Games, based on the best-selling young adult...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff is 30 and lives in his mother’s basement. He’s unemployed, smokes too much weed, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since high school (surprised?). He’s a slacker...[Read More]
Movie Review: Undefeated
Undefeated, which won this year’s Oscar for best documentary, showcases an inner-city high school football which hasn’t seen a winning season or a playoff game ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: 21 Jump Street Not Showing Its Age
Johnny Depp isn’t slated to return to the big screen just yet…Dark Shadows hits theaters in May…but the show that practically launched his career made a comebac...[Read More]
Movie Review: In Darkness
If you are a true lover of foreign language cinema, then it is a source of annoyance when only a handful of movies from around the globe are given a place on th...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: John Carter Sputters and Can’t Cut Down The Lorax
Would it be a crime if I continued to rhyme? Not to worry, despite Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax finishing first for its second week in a row (with an estimated $39.1 mi...[Read More]
Movie Review: Coriolanus
Countless works by William Shakespeare have been adapted for the movies since the dawn of cinema. The canonical masterpieces have seen every iteration imaginabl...[Read More]