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
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 128 minutes |
Good grief. Another one? What has this bloated amusement park ride-based series wrought?
Posted on May 20, 2011 by Elias Savada
PRIEST
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 88 minutes |
If you’ve watched any of the trailers, they make about as much sense as the full feature does…
Posted on May 15, 2011 by Elias Savada
BRIDESMAIDS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 125 minutes |
Hands down, “Bridesmaids” is the most consistently funny comedy of the year…
Posted on May 12, 2011 by Elias Savada
EVERYTHING MUST GO
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes |
This better-than-average indie effort—a first feature from Dan Rush, an accomplished commercial director—is a dramatic change-of-pace for the former SNL star…
Posted on May 12, 2011 by Elias Savada
SOMETHING BORROWED
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 103 minutes |
Forget this often crass effort about the double-headed love gymnastics involving BFFs in the Big Apple. It’s just not all that appealing a rom-com…
Posted on May 6, 2011 by Elias Savada
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
While the film version of Sara Gruen’s best-selling 2006 novel aims for prestige, there’s something up there on the screen that is telling us—not necessarily in a bad way—date flick!
Posted on April 21, 2011 by Elias Savada
YOUR HIGHNESS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
Set in medieval times “Your Highness” sports considerable non-royal dialogue more appropriately found in today’s gutter…
Posted on April 8, 2011 by Elias Savada
LIMITLESS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 105 minutes |
The ending has loads of leverage, and the film has plenty of moxie. Nice ride!
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Elias Savada
BATTLE LOS ANGELES
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 116 minutes |
While we all thought the City of Angels was in ruins by the end of last year’s undernourished “Skyline,” apparently the real attack will start in the near future…
Posted on March 10, 2011 by Elias Savada
BEASTLY
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 86 minutes |
Pushed back from a release originally schedule for last July, this should wash out past New York harbor for most of us in a week or two…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by Elias Savada
SANCTUM
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 109 minutes |
James Cameron may be the king of the cinematic world, but plastering his name all over the trailers and posters promoting this film doesn’t change one obvious thing about it: It stinks…
Posted on February 4, 2011 by Elias Savada