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“Employee of the Month goes for laughs with its low-brow humor--fart jokes, cultural stereotypes, slapstick--but its vacuous writing delivers it with all the panache of a poor man's Kevin Smith film. I'd like to think we, as audiences, are smarter than that.”


Recently, I watched Dane Cook's HBO-taped special, Vicious Circle, filmed at the Banknorth Garden in Boston--the guy quipped on everything from being sneezed on to breaking and entering. But even while riffing on sneaky girlfriends, Cook straddled a fine line that rarely offended. Maybe that's why h...
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“With a promising premise and fine cast, An American Haunting could have been a memorable horror flick, but instead, we get a haunting, cinematic mess.”


An American Haunting is one of those films, regardless of genre, that actually had potential, but somewhere along the assembly line, went awry — horribly, irrevocably awry. It had many of the proper ingredients to make a ripe horror film: a fine cast, led by Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, and...
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“When the film reaches its tragic conclusion, you’re not necessarily disappointed, but left with the reaffirmed feeling that love is never simple, nor is it always kind. Nor, as in the case of Tristan and Isolde, is it meant to be. ”


“Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Tristan and Isolde…,” goes the ad slogan, but if you’re at all familiar with the medieval tale of these “star-crossed” lovers, you won’t recognize much of it in Kevin Reynold’s splashy, big screen adaptation. What we have is a vehicle for up-and-co...
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Something's fishy in the rural town of Berkeley. Meteor shards have fallen from the sky; now an infection is running rampant through the area transforming the inhabitants of this normally-tranquil area into zombie-like creatures. Sound familiar? It should: it...
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“The Lohan’s misguided music video “First”: The whole film can be watered down to this. ”


The Lohan’s misguided music video “First”: The whole film can be watered down to this. The Lohan’s misguided music video “First.” Don’t you just want to throw her a bone (or a drumstick)? Herbie: Fully Loaded is, like so many others (Proof of Life, Mr...
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“A decent film transfer for an outstanding indie and an unexpected read-through of Scott Heim’s work by Gordon-Levitt and Corbet. ”


A decent film transfer for an outstanding indie and an unexpected read-through of Scott Heim’s work by Gordon-Levitt and Corbet. No making-of documentaries? Uttterly unflinching, Gregg Araki’s coming-of-age film hews closely to Scott Heim’s heartwrenching no...
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“The L Word Season 2 doesn't need much to distinguish itself on TV or DVD. The subject matter and the quality of its delivery speaks for themselves. ”


The L Word Season 2 doesn't need much to distinguish itself on TV or DVD. The subject matter and the quality of its delivery speaks for themselves. Lackadaisical extras. Are deleted scenes too much to ask for in this day and age? “Are dykes the new fags?” Aria...
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“There’s a good chance The Exorcism of Emily Rose may drown in that bottomless sea of ho-hum, me-too horror vehicles, but if you’re a fan of exorcism flicks, it’s worth a look. ”


If The Exorcist and John Grisham mated, The Exorcism of Emily Rose would be their unholy spawn. Scott Derrickson’s film recalls the trial of Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), the local parish priest accused of directly causing the death of 19-year-old college student Emily Rose. Was Emily possesse...
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