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Movie Review: Friends With Benefits (M18, 109min) | Rating: ...

LET'S be honest here. Even if you did unsuccessfully try to go all No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, you know you're not saying no to being Friends With Benefits with hot stuff Mila Kunis and Justin Timb [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: ’50 50’

Upon visiting the doctor with back pain, Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), an otherwise healthy 27-year-old radio broadcaster, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. While enduring the various indignities of chemotherapy, Adam pushes away hi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Crazy Stupid Love - movie review

Looking for a sure-fire way to get thrown into jail? Act like the lead in pretty much any Hollywood rom-com. Not for these romantic heroes the distractions of anti-stalking laws and the idea that no means no: being in love is a free pass [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Reviews by Reel People: 'Driver'

Not to be confused with the cartoonish but much more enjoyable “Transporter” series, “Driver” is a cool, stylish and sophisticated art film that degenerates into a gritty ultra-violent grindhouse flick. Give credit [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

ABDUCTION - MOVIE REVIEW

I just want to preface this by saying I was pretty keen to catch Abduction. ‘It's an action, it's a thriller, Taylor Lautner has something to prove’, I had it all worked out. There was going to be some suspense, Hollyw [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: 'Moneyball'

"Moneyball" is a thinking person's baseball movie, and a baseball fan's thinking movie. It's based on the Michael Lewis book about Billy Beane, the ex-ballplayer turned Oakland A's general manager who upended the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Pearl Jam 20’

Rock these days is mostly relevant as self-parody. Or at least, it’s hard to escape that conclusion after watching Cameron Crowe’s “Pearl Jam 20.” The film is much like the music of the band it documents - lumberin [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: DRIVE

DRIVE gets off to a promising start, introducing us to our Driver protagonist (Ryan Gosling), a movie car stunt expert by day, a getaway driver by night and an occasional mechanic at a Valley garage when he’s not doing either of his [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: THE LION KING 3-D (Watch Movie Trailer)

In an age where two-dimensional animation is no longer the theatrical draw it used to be (pun intended), finding its viewership in (often times crudely-drawn) Sunday evening prime-time comedies or late-night cable network shows, leave it [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Straw Dogs Movie Review

Whether or not you’ve seen the original, the promotion campaign for Straw Dogs lays it out quite clearly; this film boasts a bloodbath. Emotion? Character development? Some sense? Not so much. But, if you’ve got a taste for th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Contagion

Impressively casted and conceptualized, Contagion manages to infect its audience’s attention from the very beginning. The film stays away from the histrionic conflict involving central characters and the plot focuses on the obvious [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: 'Contagion' another masterpiece by Steven Sode...

Hey, I'm Ryan Michaels, a 14-year-old writing movie reviews for Heritage Newspapers. I've been doing it for three years, and enjoy it a lot. Here's my review of "Contagion." In my time as amateur film critic and f [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Warrior

One brother is a teacher who struggles to keep home and family together in hard economic times. The other is a brooding brute, home from the war, living with his long-estranged father. Both grown men have daddy issues, issues hinted at in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Contagion Movie Review

“This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” So states T.S. Eliot in “The Hollow Man,” demonstrating that Mr. Eliot was not only a [...]