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Movie review: Bridesmaids

Having being chosen as her best friend's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie (Kristen Wiig) has to creatively navigate her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an eclectic group of bridesmaids (Rose By [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Film Review: Cost of a Soul

As much as you want to celebrate the success story behind the indie movie Cost of a Soul, your final impression is that of a talented newcomer done in by artistic overreach. While Penn State film-school grad Sean Kirkpatrick does a fine j [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Midnight in Paris a Fun & Neurotic Trip Throug...

Review in a Hurry: At the stroke of midnight on a lonely Parisian street, Owen Wilson is transported from the present to the 1920's for witty banter with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Salvador...as in Dali! While not the laughfest that [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

NY1 Movie Review: "Louder Than A Bomb"

High School students competing, in teams, in the country's largest poetry competition is the subject of a new documentary. It's called "Louder Than A Bomb."It's called a poetry slam and it's where over 600 teenag [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides - movie review

Remember the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies? Of course you do – they were massive hits the world over. Now here’s a tricky one: remember what actually happened in them? Well, there was a sea monster and some sword [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

RAGINI MMS MOVIE REVIEW

After comedy, if there's one genre that Indian film-makers have time and again tried to explore and master, it's horror. Just a week after Vikram Bhatt's horror product Haunted 3D, comes Ekta's spooky flick Ragini MMS. Whi [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Ragini MMS Movie Review

The title RAGINI MMS was more than enough to grab your attention. It gave an impression that the film was based on an MMS scandal. Then, the promos made it clear that there was a paranormal element attached to the film as well. So is it a [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

NY1 Movie Review: "Bridesmaids"

I was never onboard the Kristen Wiig train and never found her that funny on "Saturday Night Live," but surprise, surprise: now she has her first starring role in a new movie called “Bridesmaids” and suddenl [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Water for Elephants - movie review

This film is a target-rich environment for puns, so why not just get the lamest of them out of the way upfront? The elephant in the room (see?) is of course Robert Pattinson, who in this bestseller adaptation plays a young Polish man call [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Something Borrowed

After weeks of high anticipation, the romantic comedy “Something Borrowed” finally made its premiere in theater this weekend. Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Emily Griffin of the same title, the chick flick garnered the [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Hook, Line and Sinker

The first feature outing under the banner of the small, self-sustaining Wellington collective Torchlight Films was Taking the Waewae Express, a small and gutsy effort that took us into the lives of several young men after a tragic car acc [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Thor Is So Incredibly Silly It's Good!

Review in a Hurry: Straddling a very fine line between fantasy and absurdity, Kenneth Branagh's take on one of Marvel Comics' most ridiculous major players does everything it needs to. Expanding the cinematic Marvel-verse in stran [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

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 [...]