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Insidious - movie review

A lot of things come to mind when you think of the Saw films. “Subtle” isn’t usually one of them. So when Insidious – written and directed by the guys behind the original Saw, writer/actor Leigh Whannell and direct [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Common - Movie Reviews Madea's Big Happyfamily

While it was not screened in advance for critics, Madea's Big Happy Family was viewed by a handful of them at their local multiplexes over the weekend. Their common complaint is that, aside from the Madea character (producer-director [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Water for Elephants movie reviews (Video)

"Water for Elephants," the movie adapted from the popular novel by Sara Gruen, is this week's featured adaptation. The book, about a romantic triangle in a squalid, Depression-era circus, was a big hit with book clubs, guar [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: ‘Atlas Shrugged: Part 1′

Taylor Schilling is Dagny Taggart, a strong, independent woman keeping the family railroad business (railroads being the dominant mode of transportation in AS’s alternate future due to restrictive oil prices) alive despite the irre [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Super

I really was not planning to see this. When I first saw the trailer to "Super," it looked to me like it was going to this geek reference comedy with Rainn Wilson doing his thing from The Office, which had become extremely tired [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Thor - movie review

Sandwiched in the multiplex between his Avengers comrades Iron Man (2) and Captain America, the latest Marvel superhero to take to the big-screen is Thor. Unlike some of his predecessors, in the hands of director Kenneth Branagh and star [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Scream 4 - movie review

The Scream franchise has its die-hard fans, I know, but for many people the demand for a fourth instalment (a decade after 2000’s just-okay Scream 3) mirrored that of, say, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles or a new Leprechaun flick. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Reviews Hanna

To paraphrase the common cliché You reads your critics and you takes your choice. Either Hanna is an intelligent top-of-the-line thriller, or its a pretentious over-the-top deceit -- the critics are divided almost equally. Among t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Thank You Movie Review

After a lull in Bollywood releases due to the World Cup, comes Thank You, an Anees Bazmee product starring Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Irfan Khan, Rimi Sen, Suniel Shetty and Celina Jaitley. Known for his comic capers, Aneez& [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

RiverRun movie reviews (Video)

Most independent films shown at RiverRun have not been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. For those films not rated by MPAA, RiverRun organizers have devised their own rating system. Here it is: MT: Mature &mdas [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Source Code

Eight minutes. That’s how long Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to find the bomb and the bomber of a commuter train. The catch is that Colter can go back for the last eight minutes over and over until he completes this assignme [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Sucker Punch - movie review

Zack Snyder's odious Sucker Punch opens with a dialogue-free tableau that introduces us, sort of, to the back story of our blank-faced heroine, Babydoll (Emily Browning) and her sister (Frederique De Raucort). Their mother h [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

EW Movie Review: Insidious

“Insidious” is a haunted-house movie that has some of the most scary and indelible images I’ve seen in any horror film in decades. Yes, it’s that unsettling. The movie was directed by James Wan, who’s best k [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'Super'

Like a bad dream that makes one wonder what bizarre anxieties brought on such misery, writer-director James Gunn's so-called comedy "Super" flings around its dingy shocks with little feel for context, wit or filmmaking skil [...]