LOTTERY TICKET
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 99 minutes |
“Lottery Ticket” is a horrid failure to amuse, a film looking for humor in the poor, lost souls who end up spinning out of control as they climb a mountain of greed….
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Elias Savada
THE EXPENDABLES
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 103 minutes |
“The Expendables” is meant to provide its (mostly male) audience a big can of whoop ass. Don’t go expecting Shakespeare or even bad Shakespeare…
Posted on August 13, 2010 by Elias Savada
THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 93 minutes |
For lovers of the greatest of outdoors, “The Wildest Dream” is a worthy excursion, especially on the big IMAX screen…
Posted on August 10, 2010 by Elias Savada
HEAVY METAL PICNIC
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
What makes “Heavy Metal Picnic” zip by is how Krulik has taken the original footage and juxtaposed his new material featuring the same characters 20+ years on in their lives…
Posted on August 7, 2010 by Elias Savada
TOY STORY 3
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 108 minutes |
“Toy Story 3″ has all the sass, action, and derring do of the Indiana Jones movies, the charm, admiration, and fun of its predecessors and cousins at Pixar, and enough laughter and imagination to fuel generations to come…
Posted on June 18, 2010 by Elias Savada
AMIA SHORT FILM COMPETITION: PRESERVING THE WORLD’S MOVING IMAGE HERITAGE
Contestants must create a film or video “that best conveys the importance of preserving the world’s moving image heritage.” In celebrating its 20th anniversary, the association is providing an opportunity “to emphasize the importance of saving moving images as important educational, historical, and cultural resources”…
Posted on June 11, 2010 by Elias Savada
NEW ZEALAND-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP TO SAVE AND MAKE AVAILABLE “LOST” AMERICAN SILENT FILMS
The New Zealand Film Archive comes to the rescue, partnering with the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve and make available 75 American motion pictures that no longer exist in the United States…
Posted on June 11, 2010 by Elias Savada
THE KARATE KID
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 132 minutes |
And where is the karate? Would you call a film about Chicago “Manhattan”? Or a movie about flatulence “Gone with the Wind”?
Posted on June 11, 2010 by Elias Savada
MARMADUKE
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 87 minutes |
No re-imagining a new goth or punk version of the beloved cartoon strip Great Dane and his human family. Keep it straight, keep it simple, keep it somewhat funny….
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Elias Savada
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
“A man dies, he gets stupid,” someone observes in the film. Maybe if a man makes too many films about the dead, the same fate awaits him. Mr. Romero, you are on notice…
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Elias Savada
PRINCESS KAIULANI
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 97 minutes |
Oh, yes, “Princess Kaiulani” is every bit a young-love, Hallmark/Reader’s Digest-type movie (i.e., the teary school of acting and overbearing, heavy-handed score which telegraphs many a scene), and it moves slowly through the turn of events and inevitability of certain subplots….
Posted on May 22, 2010 by Elias Savada
MACGRUBER
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 99 minutes |
My advice? Wear gloves, a surgical mask, and get the proper inoculations before entering the theatre. It’s the first sexually transmitted comedy of the year…
Posted on May 21, 2010 by Elias Savada
LETTERS TO JULIET
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 105 minutes |
“Letters to Juliet” is a lovely travelogue and not much more. Actually the entire story of the film is captured perfectly by the trailer. Watch that online and save a few bucks…
Posted on May 15, 2010 by Elias Savada
THE BLIND SIDE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Unfortunately, this film had to battle against the dumb, romantic juggernaut “New Moon.” Sandra Bullock and company will give you many more moments of enjoyment than any lame hormonally-challenged vampire-werewolf.
Posted on November 26, 2009 by Elias Savada
THE ROAD
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 113 minutes |
It’s a grueling experience that still allows for the viewer to survive with a self-centering hope. This is no Disney amusement ride.
Posted on November 25, 2009 by Elias Savada
