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My Soul To Take

25 August 2010

I’m hoping really hard for Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take. Craven is a masterful director and, his novel Fountain Society aside, has always been a solid writer, though his best work will probably stand as his collaboration with Kevin Williamson on the Scream saga (and he gets bonus points for co-writing Alex Aja’s remake [...]

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Expendables 2

18 August 2010

To really make a sequel to The Expendables work, you need to go back to the visceral premise that got people out to see the first one and either make it bigger or deliver on it better. If you’re going to make a sequel to The Expendables, you have to pit Sylvester Stallone’s team of [...]

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Box Office

16 August 2010

I’d ask why geeks need so much damn validation, but I think we all know the answer to that is ‘because we never got any validation back when we were in high school’ or whatever. Or is it that we’ve begun to believe the asinine hype that we read in trash magazines and online about [...]

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If I Ran Hollywood

11 August 2010

Julia Roberts stars as a plucky heroine who travels abroad to find herself but finds food and guys who are sooo naked in the bargain. But just as she thinks her life is turned around, she finds herself at the mercy of a suave, eastern European serial killer. It’s like Under the Tuscan Sun meets [...]

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Sic Semper [Darth] Tyranus

5 August 2010

In the context of the Prequel Trilogy, Count Dooku seems like a bit of a chump. Dooku is subverted and initiated into the Sith somewhere in the ten year gap between Episode I and Episode II, and all you can really think about when you see him is that Anakin is supposed to kill him [...]

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Salt

30 July 2010

Salt is so well-made that you won’t realize how much sense it doesn’t make until about an hour after it’s over. This is, in part, because it’s amazingly fun and jam packed with stunningly orchestrated stunts and chases. It is also yet another case of a movie being elevated by having a cast (Angelina Jolie, [...]

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Five Thoughts On Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

29 July 2010

1. For a movie that is about a guy fighting and killing hipsters, there were certainly a lot of hipsters packed into the theater. 2. Kieran Culkin as Wallace completely steals the movie. 3. It is remarkably faithful to the source material. Even in the third act, when significant changes are made for understandable reasons, [...]

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Mister Charles

26 July 2010

The following post contains commentary on Inception. As a matter of course, it contains spoilers. If you want to avoid spoilers (and I suggest you do), skip this one for now. Look at this cute animal picture. For the rest of you, the post continues after the jump.

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Disturbing Behavior

20 July 2010

“The problem with America is mankind’s abject unwillingness to contribute to the delinquency of the young.” That’s what Nick Stahl shouts at a middle-aged man who refuses to buy him a case of beer in Disturbing Behavior, yet another variation on Red Scare paranoia horror from 1998 – the other notable being The Faculty, which [...]

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