KILLING THEM SOFTLY
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 97 minutes |
It’s a middling gangster film, but belabored with too much Sturm und Drang, particularly in banging over the audience’s head the constant reminders of the fiscal cliff…
Posted on November 30, 2012 by Elias Savada
MASQUERADE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 131 minutes |
Following in the long tradition of lavish Asian epics, this new South Korean entry is a beautiful addition to the genre of period prince-and-the pauper themed films…
Posted on October 25, 2012 by Elias Savada
SPOOKY MOVIE INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR NINE DAYS OF GENRE FUN
The 9-day Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival starts off Wednesday night, October 10, with Richard Bates, Jr.’s disturbing debut feature “Excision” at AFI’s Silver Theatre in Silver Springs, Maryland…
Posted on October 9, 2012 by Elias Savada
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
Somber and moody, with assured direction by Ava DuVernay overseeing an exceedingly at-ease cast, the mood poem that is “Middle of Nowhere” is one of the best little films of the year…
Posted on September 28, 2012 by Elias Savada
BACHELORETTE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 88 minutes |
“Bachelorette” is a poor-woman’s “Bridesmaids,” in need of a bit more laugh-inducing moments…
Posted on September 9, 2012 by Elias Savada
OSLO, AUGUST 31ST
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
Life’s sadder moments are quite well displayed in Trier’s nuanced approach. For many popcorn munchers, that regrettably doesn’t translate as a must-see movie in today’s crowded marketplace…
Posted on August 19, 2012 by Elias Savada
RUBY SPARKS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 104 minutes |
While Kazan and Dano don’t (yet) capture the deep-rooted romantic whimsicalities of Tracy and Hepburn, their off-screen chemistry has certainly helped make “Ruby Spark” one of this year’s more enjoyable moments on screen…
Posted on July 25, 2012 by Elias Savada
TO ROME WITH LOVE
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 112 minutes |
“To Rome With Love” is a triumphant examination of life and love’s many splendors, spilt out on the streets on Rome at their wickedly absurd and poignantly profound moments…
Posted on June 30, 2012 by Elias Savada
BRAVE
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 95 minutes |
With all its spunk and determination, it’s easy to see how close “Brave” gets to the bull’s eye of Pixar perfection.
Posted on June 22, 2012 by Elias Savada
ROCK OF AGES
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 123 minutes |
Plenty of music bursts forth on the “Rock of Ages” soundtrack, but glam-rock–and the self-reflexive humor that apparently has made the original show such hit–are dealt a death blow. Watching paint dry would be time better spent…
Posted on June 15, 2012 by Elias Savada
HYSTERIA
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
It’s the writing that sinks “Hysteria,” and there’s no machine that can alleviate that…
Posted on May 26, 2012 by Elias Savada
RED TAILS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 125 minutes |
… for the curmudgeons amongst us, it walks too close a line that separates war’s harsh realities with Lucas’s odd Saturday afternoon serial approach to the subject…
Posted on January 26, 2012 by Elias Savada
CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
Saturated with faux dust and artificial film scratches, occasional image registration jumps and a picture often pulled out of focus, “Corman’s World—Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel” is a campy look at the by-the-bootstraps career of producer-director Roger Corman…
Posted on January 15, 2012 by Elias Savada
INTO THE ABYSS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 106 minutes |
As it winds to its inevitable conclusion, viewers are left to ponder right and wrong, and most will have the same mixed feelings they had before they took their first bite of popcorn…
Posted on November 14, 2011 by Elias Savada
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 125 minutes |
As it battles Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the last week of July, “Captain America: The First Avenger” is a pleasant retro surprise with decent 3D work…
Posted on July 22, 2011 by Elias Savada
