Putting a non-existent end to the non-existent box office slump, Snow White and the Huntsman (review/trailer/essay) topped the weekend box office with a pretty strong $56 million. After the flop that was Battleship, Universal is...
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Dark Shadows
2012
113 minutes
rated PG-13
Dark Shadows is a movie with pretty much nothing to say. It uses its culture-clash and fish-out-of-water narrative not for any kind of social meaning or parable, but...
(55) Comments | Posted May 7, 2012 | 12:49 PM
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In a film like The Avengers, which brings together strands of several prior pictures into a mostly...
(65) Comments | Posted April 24, 2012 | 4:08 PM
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It was an 'everybody wins' weekend at the box office as all three openers outperformed even the most optimistic expectations. The number one film of the weekend was not...
(1) Comments | Posted April 11, 2012 | 1:09 PM
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We the Party
2012
104 minutes
Rated R
At its best, Mario Van Peebles' We the Party feels like the director's overt thesis statement on today's youth culture. The picture is at heart a somewhat...
(80) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 8:30 PM
It was right at the opening credit sequence. That haunting footage of the various passengers embarking on the ship, with a sorrowful version of the theme playing in the background (a version that inexplicably was never been included on the soundtrack CDs back in 1997/1998) As...
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In a classical sense, Feminism is defined as believing that women should have the same rights, freedoms, choices, privileges, and benefits as men in a civilized society. Under that relatively general definition, I would argue that most rational people, men and...
(0) Comments | Posted March 28, 2012 | 9:48 PM
Wrath of the Titans
2012
99 minutes
rated PG-13
Jonathan Liebesman's Wrath of the Titans is arguably about as 'good' as a movie called Wrath of the Titans can be expected to be. It is...
(0) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 1:59 PM
On the surface, Goon is an assembly-line underdog sports movie. And yes the film hits a handful of familiar story beats along the way. But...
(14) Comments | Posted March 25, 2012 | 12:51 PM
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