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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 3

These Paranormal Activity films freak me out. There, I've said it. I'm big enough to admit it. I know they're not real. They're fake reality films designed to look real, with their hand-held cameras and home movies pretend [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review Round-Up: The Three Musketeers

“The Three Musketeers” is bound to upset Alexandre Dumas fans and historical action film fans alike, according to the latest stats from Rotten Tomatoes. According the site, the critics went to town with it, giving it a 27 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: The Three Musketeers Is All For Nothing, Nothi...

Review in a Hurry: When director Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich try to get Resident Medieval, it's all for nothing, nothing much for all. If you're just looking for some elegant production design in subpar 3-D, it delivers [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

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

Film review: Midnight in Paris

Gil (Owen Wilson) is a Hollywood scriptwriter visiting France with his pretty but materialistic fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) and her arrogant right-wing parents. A true romantic, Gil idealises literary masters like Hemingway and F [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 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 [...]