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Movie Review: Ghost (Hin) – Unnatural Brutality!

The film is an 'extreme' horror movie with a lot of blood and violence and the movie definitely isn't for kids, or so the director would like us to believe. While that maybe so, the storyline is highly immature, with the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Beauty & The Beast 3D (2012)

The 3D craze has not only encouraged Hollywood to make their new releases into third-dimensional spectacles but the trend has also been applied to older films. If you’ve been to the local cineplex within the past three months I&rsqu [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: War Horse

Maybe it was the epic, old-fashioned storytelling, or the touching bond depicted between man and animal. Whatever the reason, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse worked its way into my heart and I enjoyed it purely as a simple, fulfilling [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

'Pariah': Coming of age, coming out

An eloquent, haunting coming-of-age/ coming-out tale, Dee Rees' debut feature, "Pariah," focuses on a 17-year-old Brooklyn girl named Alike (Adepero Oduye) who has realized that she is a lesbian but doesn't know what to [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Movie Review/Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

It's pretty clear what you'll get from a Mission: Impossible movie at this point. Ethan Hunt's (Tom Cruise) IMF team will get in trouble, they'll have to break into a place that's supposedly impossible to break into an [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'The Iron Lady'

There is far more softness than steel in "The Iron Lady," starring Meryl Streep as the iconic British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The film catches her long after she's left the public eye, and rather than an examinatio [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: The Skin I Live In

The last time Spanish heart-throb Antonio Banderas worked with Pedro Almodovar, starring in his hugely controversial 1990 comic romance Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, he played a former mental patient who kidnaps a porn actress and tries to con [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review – Happy Feet 2

The first ‘Happy Feet’ was one of those movies that looked good, but for some reason or another, I just never got around to seeing. So with me currently on my Christmas and New Years break, I had 4 films that were on my list t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: WAR HORSE

Just in time for the family-friendly holiday is Steven Spielberg’s sweeping, historical epic “War Horse.”It’s a story that began life as a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, then made its way to the London [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo

Matt Damon has had a strong career playing hard-edged, serious guys like Jason Bourne or the title character in Good Will Hunting. So you forget his aptitude for comedy. He brought it to 30 Rock, just as he did for the Farrelly brothers i [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Keeping up with 'Tintin' is tough

That's The Adventures of Tintin boiled down to its essence. Steven Spielberg's film, based on the popular comic books created by the Belgian artist Herge, is a marvel to look at, taking full advantage of motion-capture and 3-D tec [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That's unfair. It's not even true; well, not completely. Still, the perfo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Return To Middle Earth With The First Trailer For 'The Hobbi...

It's almost time to return to Middle Earth! On Tuesday Warner Bros. Pictures released the first official trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and you can check it out right here! An Unexpected Journey follows the adventu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'The Adventures of Tintin'

Think of "The Adventures of Tintin" as a song of innocence and experience, able to combine a sweet sense of childlike wonder and pureness of heart with the most worldly and sophisticated of modern technology. More than anything, [...]