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Movie review: 'Le Havre'

Buster Keaton isn't dead, he's alive and well in Finland, where under a new identity he pursues his own particular brand of deadpan absurdism to wonderful effect. If the name Aki Kaurismäki doesn't mean anything to you, i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: The Three Musketeers: 3D

The Three Stooges. Three Amigos. Three Men and a Baby or its sequel, Three Men and a Bride. These are three-manned movies I'd rather see than another Three Musketeers movie. There hasn't been one since Charlie Sheen and Kiefer [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Margin Call movie review

Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer-director J.C. Chandor's lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours at an unnamed Manhattan investment firm at the dawn of the 2008 financial freak-out. Chando [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Texas Killing Fields

Alternately laconic and overheated, Ami Canaan Mann's Texas Killing Fields, which opened Oct. 14, is a two-pronged police procedural whose misdirection can't disguise its essential lack of juice. Based on a true story, the fi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: Heartfelt remake of ‘Footloose’ a crowd please...

Co-writer/director Craig Brewer (“Hustle & Flow”) delivers a contemporary reboot of the 1984 classic film that made a star out of Kevin Bacon. Ren MacCormack (newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'Footloose' (Watch Video)

The new version of 1984's 'Footloose' has updated moves and a sexier look but retains the story line. It doesn't have the emotional impact of the original, but it ups the energy level. As long as kids want to dance and Hol [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

NY1 Movie Review: "Trespass"

The new thriller “Trespass” stars Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman and was directed by Joel Schumacher. With such talent at work, one might figure it would be a halfway decent movie. Well, think again. Cage plays Kyle, a ric [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Moneyball

Moneyball is about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, and is based on the book by Michael Lewis. I read the book back in the mid-2000s when it came out and found it intriguing. I looked forward to the movie as a baseball fan, a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Ides of March

The Ides of March takes place in the throws of the Democratic national primary in the hot battleground state of Ohio. George Clooney is Pennsylvania Governor Mike Morris who is so close to the nomination his campaign folks can practically [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: The Ides Of March (2011)

Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney) and Senator Ted Pullman (Michael Mantell) vie for the Democratic nomination for the upcoming presidential election. In Governor Morris’ camp is a young campaign manager named Stephen Myers (Ryan [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)'

The movie "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" was an out-of-nowhere shocker, its story predicated on a single concept — a mad surgeon stitches human beings together anus to mouth to replicate a single organism — t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Real Steel: Movie Review

Hollywood has churned out umpteen movies revolving around 'man and the machines' theme. Shawn Levy takes the unbeaten path as he gives us a Robot movie which is nothing like any of the robot films you must have seen earlier. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: ‘Melancholia’

The Danish director Lars von Trier has been clinically depressed for the last few years, Daily Mail reports. Melancholia is, if little else, an accurate depiction of that state of mind. Those who admire it will point to the opening, set t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: 'Dream House'

It may have sounded like a good idea on paper (how else could it attract such talent?), but the recent haunted house thriller Dream House is saddled with bland, outdated concepts, overtly predictable"surprises," dead-eyed acting [...]