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Review: INTO THE WOODS Ventures Into A Musically Dark Thicket
"Beware the tale you tell Children will listen" Just what is Disney up to with Into the Woods? Widely cited as "nobody's favorite Sondheim", this Tim Burton-esque adaptation of the 1987 Broadway...
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Review: UNBROKEN Takes The Human Spirit To War, Prison
With Unbroken, Angelina Jolie has once again thwarted many expectations of her own career. She's stepped behind the camera to direct what is not just the most un-ironic "triumph of the human spirit"...
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An American Film Geek's Top & Bottom 10 for 2014
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Review: A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Slow-Burns With Quality
Lurking modestly in the fringes of film awards season, we have this: an accomplished, dignified, slow-burn of a film. A Most Violent Year is a crime film, a crumbling family drama, an unexpected...
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Review: PADDINGTON Bears Watching
Going into Paddington, I fully expected a film with the cinematic nutritional value of a marmalade sandwich. Saddled with the most cringe inducing trailer of last year, and the fact that its U.S....
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Review: Kevin Costner's BLACK OR WHITE Is Anything But
Dances with Wolves. Field of Dreams. JFK. And now, Black or White. That's how Kevin Costner, who not only stars in, but financed this highly approachable light drama about contemporary race relations,...
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Review: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 Is #2 In More Ways Than One
It would be wrong to call Hot Tub Time Machine 2 an ugly, smug, hateful waste of cinema, because to do so would imply that it indeed exhibits at least a flair for the cinematic. Which, of course, is...
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Review: THE LAZARUS EFFECT Flatlines
If this review is nothing special, that's because it's in keeping with the film it's about. This being a resurrection horror flick, reviewers would ordinarily be bending over backwards looking for new...
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The Many Faces Of J. K. Simmons
Last weekend was Academy Award weekend, and a lot of it was predictable, uninteresting, and often both. However, I do not think anybody had a problem with the Oscar for best Supporting Actor going to...
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Review: UNFINISHED BUSINESS, Tepid Fun, Fun, Fun On The Autobahn
I can't imagine that the world has been longing for yet another Vince Vaughn comedy, but apparently Hollywood considered the niche unfinished business. Unfinished Business, the title of this very...
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Review: Branagh's CINDERELLA Has Grace But Lacks Charm
Kindness doesn't cost... Love doesn't cost... Such are the paraphrased pronouncements at a key point of Kenneth Branagh's tempered and well measured take on the oft-told tale of "Cinderella". Perhaps...
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Review: HOME, Awfully Sugary But Not Sweet
Home depicts nothing less than the most kid friendly alien invasion even committed to the screen. Back-burnering any trauma and horror of the human internment camps that it depicts (both off-world and...
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Review: SERENA Finally Lumbers Into Theaters
Hallmark Hall of Fame called, they said to stop right now - they do not have the budget for these movie stars...! Lantern-lit wood cabins and literary based period melodrama do not guarantee a...
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Review: FURIOUS 7, Super-Charged And Super-Sized
Big, loud, macho cool. It took some convincing to get me to believe that there was anything more to the Fast & Furious series than that. By the time part five rolled around, I had still never seen...
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Review: MONKEY KINGDOM Doesn't Monkey With Formula
"Here we come... Walking down the street..." Yes, this film actually opens with the old Monkees TV show theme. It plays over a satisfying opening montage of monkeys in the jungle doing stupid things...
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Team TwitchFilm: On EX MACHINA
(What is on display here: intelligence, artificial intelligence, or just artifice?) Last week Ex Machina got a wide release in the United States. The previous two weeks it had been in a hugely...
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Review: SKIN TRADE Trades On Ensemble Face-Kicking
Thirty years after its explosive heyday, Dolph Lundgren is here to show us how little action movies and muscle-led cinema have evolved. And yet, we're meant to think that they have. In 1985, Rambo won...
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Review: HOT PURSUIT Is A Cold Annoyance
There are some who might find the new Reese Witherspoon/Sofía Vergara comedy Hot Pursuit to be a perfectly viable waste of time. But I didn't think it was so hot. Before the movie's advance screening,...
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Team TwitchFilm On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
(Who is this?! Team TwitchFilm, assemble!) Unless you've been living under a rock, a Wifi-less one no less, you will have been made aware of the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In...
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Review: PITCH PERFECT 2 Pitches Right Down The Middle
The Bellas are back, for more comedy wrapped up in singing, or vice versa, depending on your preference. As a movie, it's more of a fun night out at the theater than a stirring next chapter in the...
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