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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 [...]

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 [...]