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- Horror films often exist on the edge of showing you too little or showing you too much, but The Woman In Black strikes an occasionally perfect balance between the two.
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- As a romantic comedy, One For The Money is even more lighthearted and innocuous than most. The result is a film that's easy to like, if not love.
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- As its bland, generic title indicates, Man On A Ledge is the end result of many people coming together to collectively not give a damn about making a decent film.
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Community Showcase: February 4th!
FinalDasa Says: Between this and that Pokemon indie fighting game being developed I could finally be getting way into fighting games. Until then I need to catch up on Persona 4 the anime sometime. Speaking of anime...community showcase!Community Showcase:User Reviews:litrock doesn't just rock the blogs, he rocked reviews for Shame ...
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Here's Nine Minutes Of This Means War, For Some Reason
In yet another example of "hey, let's throw a bunch of random footage from our film together and slap it on the internet" (you'll recall that Red Tails tried something similar recently), McG and the marketing team at FOX have decided to give out nine minutes of This Means War ...
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What to Watch This Weekend: Some Manner of Football, Which May or May Not be of Great Importance
Of course this is Super Bowl weekend, that grand tradition where the entirety of America's population (even the ones who never really watch football during the season) get together to eat giant fistfuls of nachos and chicken wings while watching two teams they're only vaguely familiar with play football for ...
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In Theaters: These Damn Kids Today, With Their Telekinesis, and Their Hauntings
It's been funny to see the relentless hype machine that has formed up around Chronicle, with some internet forums abuzz at the films early 100% Rotten Tomatoes meter. Of course, at the time it only had six reviews to its credit, but it's still holding pretty solid in the 80s, ...
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When It's Midnight in Paris, Magical Dreams Come Alive
Here is a familiar story: a young hero abruptly leaves his normal life to go on an adventure of discovery, or self-discovery, or escape. This journey could transform the world ...
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Dave Grohl Developing What Sounds Like the Sitcom Version of Metallica's 'Some Kind of Monster'
If you've never seen the Metallica-goes-through-therapy documentary Some Kind of Monster, I highly recommend giving it a watch, especially if you have any interest whatsoever regarding what kind of horrific, ...
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A Jackie Brown Prequel? Starring John Hawkes? Sure, Why Not?
As one of the biggest proponents of the "Jackie Brown is totally one of the very best Tarantino movies" theorem that not nearly enough people subscribe to, the idea of ...
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What To Watch: It's Sweeps Month, And That Means Everything's New
You know, I don't write much about ABC on Thursday nights, and that's because they almost always have the same trio of shows on: Wipeout, followed by Grey's Anatomy, followed ...
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Take A Look At The Oscar Short Animated Film Nominess, Won't You?
Despite Pixar's de rigeur nomination for Cars 2 in the Animated Feature category for the upcoming Oscars, it probably has a better chance for a win with its entry into ...
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Today In Super Bowl Advertising: Cobra Commander, The Diplomat, Darth Vader, and James Bond
Hey, remember when Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in G.I. Joe as a favor to his friend Channing Tatum? (I swear I am not making that up.) And he eventually became Cobra ...
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Speaking for Space Whales: Characters Translating for Other Forms of Intelligence
Films reflect a human way of thinking because they are made by humans. Most humans think in terms of narrative. People experience the world by telling themselves stories: characters, locations, ...
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Adam Sandler in a 'Candy Land' Movie Is Somehow Not Just Some Terrible Nightmare
We've been hearing about nefarious plans to turn Hasbro's Candy Land board game into a movie--much as it did with Battleship and its Transformers toys, and eventually will with Stretch ...
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What To Watch: The Depressing Laziness Of Super Bowl Commercial Recaps
I admit that advertising is a kind of art, in that creative people come together to make short films designed to move or amuse an audience, but I'd also posit ...
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If You Missed Gus Van Sant's Restless In 2011, Please Continue To Do So In 2012
(We're going to be taking a look over the next few weeks at some of the smaller 2011 films that we missed the first time around. Our first candidate is ...
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Arrested Development Writer Removes Any Remaining Doubt: The Movie Is Really Happening
No sense in beating too far around the bush here. You probably already know full well how many rumors and speculative posts have been made about the possibility of the ...
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Fun While It Lasted: First Class Sequel To Be Written By Guy Who Did X-Men: The Last Stand
The good news is that Fox is apparently intent on moving forward with a sequel to X-Men: First Class, which came in a respectable third place in last year's battle ...
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Are These Skrulls In The Latest Footage From The Avengers?
Alright, so that is just a teaser for the longer teaser for The Avengers that'll be shown during the Super Bowl this Sunday. As it's just a few seconds long, ...
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What to Watch: Prepare to Swoon Hard for the Cloon-Dog
In a rare shift from the usual slate of reality shows focused on storage locker hunting chuckleheads and people who hoard farts in jars or whatever, tonight's TV actually features ...
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DVD/Blu-Ray: 2011's Finest Film Finally Arrives
It seems like everything that could be said about Drive probably already has been said. At a 93% Rottentomatoes meter and a 79% Metacritic rating, it's one of the best ...
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A Quick Analysis Of Cinematic Bird-Flipping
The notion of a gesture being "rude" has always fascinated me, as if there was some way you could shape your body that has some kind of innate social impact. ...
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Year of the Cage Week Five: Birdy
Film: BirdyDemeanor: A roughly 50/50 split between youthful cockiness and unhinged histrionics.Hair Quality: A roughly 50/50 split between the 1960s equivalent of a Flock of Seagulls cut, and a giant ...
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What To Watch: It's Almost Sweeps Month...But Not Quite
It ain't easy, being a Monday night television watcher, mostly because there's really not that much on this week. CBS is taking it easy and running nothing but reruns, and ...
