Heart in the wrong place
“In the Heart of the Sea,” the new film from director Ron Howard, suffers mightily from misplaced expectations. This is a shame, because at its core, the film’s story is [...]
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Posted December 16, 2015in Film Review
Posted December 09, 2015in Film Review
Ho-ho-holy crap
Krampus is a thing now. For those who do not know, Krampus is a mythical being from Bavarian folkore who worked along with Saint Nicholas to separate the good children [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in Film Review
The luckiest unlucky guy
How do you get back at an industry that’s taken everything from you? You show it that it needs you more than you need it. But doing so may require [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in Film Review
Shallow but fun
“Twas the night before Christmas…” is a line that that immediately sets the seasonal tone in addition to likely having a morality lesson hidden in the plot. While the main [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Film Review
Won’t be missed
Five years ago, 33 miners were buried alive in Chile’s 121-year-old San Jose mine. Trapped in an unstable mountain that continued to move throughout the rescue, in 90-plus degree heat, [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Film Review
Won’t be missed
BFFs. Babies. Cancer. Already this quick synopsis should give you a general idea of what you’re in for in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Miss You Already.” It’s clear that this is a [...]
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Posted November 04, 2015in Film Review
What a crisis
“Our Brand is Crisis” is based on the 2005 documentary of the same name by director Rachel Boynton. It is the fictional account of American consultants and their morally ambivalent [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Film Review
May not compute
“Steve Jobs” is, by most measures, not doing well at the box office. The decision to give the film a limited initial release seems to have backfired, and it would [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Film Review
Ermahgerd!
In a move that I’m sure someone had been ardently hoping for, there is now a movie based, more or less, upon R.L. Stine’s wildly popular “Goosebumps” series of [...]
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Posted October 14, 2015in Film Review
A whole new world
Hollywood takes a lot of flak for releasing so many reboots and remakes of the same, tired material. But sometimes there can be a fresh take on an old property [...]
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