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... In complete seriousness, I felt as though I was watching Rob Zombie by way of TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW GREAT JOB! ...A near-catatonic woman stares with vacant eyes at the glorious architecture of the priory before her. The walls, their details and paintings stand illuminated by the garish glow of a blue neon light w...more
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Gratuitous and sacrilegious filmmaking of the worst kind.Welcome back, Rob Zombie! We lost one of the best American horror film directors to Hollywood for a few years as he tried his best to reinvent the Halloween series. It sounded like a great idea at the...more
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The Numbers Station is a lean, tactile thriller that grabs you from the opening and keeps you aptly entertained.John Cusack and Malin Ackerman are an interesting pair under fire in The Numbers Station, a lean thriller from Danish director Kasper Barfoed. Cusack stars as Emerson, a covert government operative th...more
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One of the most masterful films of 2011There are two things Michael Shannon does a lot in the first hour of Take Shelter: Stare into an ominous cloudy sky and talk at a mumble level. The kind of nearly inaudible dialogue that features heav...more
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Cruise has found a tremendous character property here and I will make sure not to miss a screening of the next Reacher film.Originally released on December 21 of last year, its important to note I didn't see this film until April 21 of 2013. Significant because after the Sandy Hook school shooting and even more recent Bost...more
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Chadwick Boseman looks just like Jackie Robinson, but in all honesty, that doesn't give him the strength to BE Jackie Robinson.Great sports films come and go, and for a film based on the life of the legendary player Jackie Robinson, "42" should have been MUCH better. The disappointment of a film expected to be great, or a fil...more
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Imagine taking pieces from all the sci-fi classics, putting them in a blender, wrapping it in a shiny box; then pouring it on screen for mass consumption. Oblivion is a sci-fi axiom colada.Imagine taking pieces from all the sci-fi classics, putting them in a blender, wrapping it in a shiny box; then pouring it on screen for mass consumption. That's pretty much the one-sentence summary o...more
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The Place Beyond the Pines becomes unbearable; only this time in length, rather than in sorrow.Who shot first? The bounty hunting alien Greedo or the rouge pilot Han Solo? Fans of Star Wars unanimously love Solo shooting first. He's the quick draw whose way ahead of the overconfide...more
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Abbas Kiarostami appears joyous to bring his talents to another foreign land, but he didn't bring along a fully fleshed out script.I haven't sat down and concocted a top 10 films of the past decade, but I have had thoughts of such an irrelevant listing. It didn't take long to decide after viewing Abbas Kiarostami's previous film ...more
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Disconnect is an inspired parable of this age.The online world can easily spill into the real world, often leading to tragic consequences and unforeseen dilemmas. Every day, stories of cyber-bullying, 'catfishing', and identity theft, lift random...more
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... The lengths OBLIVION goes to tell every other film's story except its own is stunning. Stunningly idiotic...Remember WALL-E? Sure you do. It was that half great love story with no vocals; half that terrible ill-focused social-statement. Well, take that first portion--all of the desolation, loneliness and cr...more
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The entire film deals with a simple theme; the relationship between imagination and aspirations. It's almost a shame people will not have their eyes open enough to catch a lot of the brilliance Harmony Korine has set-up and executed here.There's a lot that can be said about SPRING BREAKERS, Harmony Korine's bizarre and rare new film that has stirred up quite the controversy. Most of these things said are of course bad because the film...more
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The new additions director Fede Alvarez brings to the table are just clever enough to make his Evil Dead a not so bad experience.I don't have a problem with remakes. We seem to get a lot of them today, but I like living in a world with Scarface, The Fly, and The Thing though It certainly helps that all those remakes were from m...more
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Don Draper and the mad men of Madison Avenue return in spectacular fashion at the tail end of the 1960sAlthough the critically-acclaimed AMC series Mad Men failed in its bid to win five straight Emmy's for Best Drama Series last year, losing out to Showtime's buzzworthy Homeland, don't think for one se...more
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Don Draper and the mad men of Madison Avenue return in spectacular fashion at the tail end of the 1960sAlthough the critically-acclaimed AMC series Mad Men failed in its bid to win five straight Emmy's for Best Drama Series last year, losing out to Showtime's buzzworthy Homeland, don't think for one se...more
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This film needed a clearer identity and a solid reason to care."Unity, verisimilitude, and completeness are best obtained by plotting your story through the mind of only one of your characters"- A.E. Coppard. This quote from respected English poet and...more
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"Like chewing on blood raw fat and gristle while someone snips pieces of flesh off your face with a pair of fingernail clippers, this Evil Dead is a non-stop carnage shop that's deeply obsessed with body mutilation and the color red.There's not much story, but is there ever at a carnival's house of horrors? The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi's original 1981 horror "classic", is not some precious thing. It's a highly flawed, scr...more
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... Whenever I'm forced to view a piece of Oscar-driven drivel or a pandering slice of mainstream grime, it makes me all the more thankful for cinematic endeavors like THE COLLECTION...So, just recently I discovered that my critique of THE COLLECTION apparently went missing from our beloved Movieweb. Back during the horror flick's initial release in November, I wrote a positive anal...more
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... EVIL DEAD is one of the best horror films in a VERY long time and is destined to make your nerves stand on end before ripping them out completely...Having just witnessed the grooviness of EVIL DEAD for a second time, I've come to appreciate this remake all the more, not only as a retread, but as a twisted beast all its own. EVIL DEAD is one of th...more
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... While DREDD wasn't the perfect idea of mindlessly exploitive mayhem I would have hoped for, it's nonetheless entertaining in a very primal way...Remember the Sylvester Stallone vehicle JUDGE DREDD from the nineties? No? Well, don't worry. I don't think many do. As a refresher, it was bad. Like, so bad it's good. . . But still, not good. . . Ma...more