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The Tragic History of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour
The fall of 1967 found The Beatles feasting on the critical and commercial success of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and looking for a follow-u...[Read More]
Movie Review: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
I admit it: I like the Happy Madison Productions. As silly and stupid as they might be, they usually contain a decent amount of surreal humor that elicits a few...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Contagion Stops The Help Cold
The Help finally appears to have met its match; the new Steven Soderbergh thriller Contagion lived up to its name and managed to outdo all comers this weekend, ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Names of Love
The Names of Love (Le nom des gens) is French love story between Baya (Sara Forestier), and Arthur (Jacques Boudet), two intensely different characters with see...[Read More]
Movie Review: Contagion
Let me get this out of the way first: ignore all the trailers and advertisements for this movie. They don’t really tell you what it’s really about. Contagion is...[Read More]
Movie Review: Brighton Rock
It’s the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe’s glossy update of Graham Greene’s canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock. Transposing the setting from ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Creature
Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, rejoice: the movie you’ve been waiting for all year has finally arrived. There have been some stinkers this year, ranging ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Shark Night 3D
It was probably inevitable that I would review something that would draw comparison to Final Destination 5, but I thought it would at least have the decency to ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Help Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
The Help continues to hold the top slot for the third week in a row, adding an estimated $19 million to its running total of $123 million over the Labor Day wee...[Read More]
Movie Review: Our Idiot Brother
It’s good to be Paul Rudd these days. He is well-liked and gets to be in a fun late-summer release – Our Idiot Brother – with fellow actors who are likely his f...[Read More]
Movie Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
For the sake of pure disclosure, I’ve never seen the original television movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, mostly because it was a bit before my time. I did ho...[Read More]