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Movie Review: The Skin I Live In
A startling and unpredictable foray into body horror and gender politics from Spanish film icon Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is a te...[Read More]
Bela Lugosi’s Not Really Dead: A Vampire Movie Primer
Vampires are so commonplace in entertainment these days that I cannot fathom how anyone could find them mysterious, otherworldly, or especially frightening. In ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I
Well, at least the Twilight series now seems fully aware of its real purpose: the first scene of the new film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is Jacob...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Immortals Makes Legendary Debut
In an up weekend, the early estimates put Immortals way ahead. Despite pretty visuals, the film has received harsh critical attention, but that still didn’t sto...[Read More]
Movie Review: J. Edgar
Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the innovative, paranoid lawman who became as notorious as the criminals he hunted as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Inv...[Read More]
Movie Review: Like Crazy
If you make a feature-length movie in one month and decide not to give your actors a script, you can expect to see some flaws in the final product. The good new...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Puss in Boots Leads the Pack Once Again
Be it luck, word of mouth, or that those trapped in the eastern seaboard snowstorms last week finally got out to the theater, Puss in Boots was the big draw onc...[Read More]
Movie Review: Tower Heist
Tower Heist is a timely action comedy about the seething discontent felt by so many after the financial collapse and the revelations detailing Bernie Madoff’s P...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Puss in Boots is Top Cat
Those boots will be dancing tonight…Puss in Boots pulled off the impossible, dethroning the juggernaut Paranormal Activity 3. While even with its 3D ticket sale...[Read More]
Movie Review: Puss in Boots
If there was to be any joy found in the entire Shrek series, it was Puss in Boots. While the movies declined precipitously in quality with each entry in the ser...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Rum Diary
At one point in Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thomspon’s experiential novel The Rum Diary, a turtle with jewels glued to its shell catches the sight ...[Read More]
Movie Review: In Time
The characters in the new movie In Time must race against the time they have left in order to acquire more time which will extend their lives. It is a race agai...[Read More]