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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

3 short paragraphs: Love and Other Drugs

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2011, Edward Zwick -- Netflix I like a good chick flick, or a good romantic comedy.  No they're not the same thing.  Chick flicks te...

3 short paragraphs: Cargo

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2009, Ivan Engler & Ralph Etter -- Netflix Cargo is a recent entry in the "quiet space thriller" genre and a part of the c...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: White Christmas

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1954, Michael Curtiz ( Angels With Dirty Faces , Casablanca ) -- download Remember when I was attempting to do a 31 Days of Xmas?  There...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Rango

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2011, Gore Verbinski -- Netflix It seems that ever since Toy Story theatres and home video have been flooded with digitally animated movie...
Friday, February 17, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: Colombiana

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2011, Olivier Megaton ( Transporter 3 ) -- download And then there is the movie about a killer where they don't even try to make yo...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: Killer Elite

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2011, Gary McKendry -- download This was not the movie I expected it to be from the trailers.  In those trailers I saw another Statham s...

3 Short Paragraphs: Haywire

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2011, Steven Soderbergh ( Contagion , the Ocean's  movies, Traffic ) -- cinema When I walked out of the theatre I mentioned, "I...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: Unstoppable

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2010, Tony Scott ( DejaVu ,  Domino ,  Man on Fire ) -- Netflix It's funny but when most people think of Tony Scott, the other Scot...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Winter pilots: The River

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Tuesdays at 9 -- ABC The "found footage" movies have, in the dozen years since The Blair Witch Project , become a staple of the ...
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3 short paragraphs: Gamer

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(aka Citizen Game) 2009, Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor -- Netflix I was not expecting this from the directors of the Crank films.  The gl...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

3 short paragraphs: Lucky Number Slevin

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2006, Paul McGuigan -- Netflix Lucky Number Slevin hit the theatres at the height of my Bruce Willis fatigue, so I actively avoided it. ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Monsters

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2010, Gareth Edwards -- DVD Monsters is a low-budget sci-fi horror/thriller that takes place five years after an invasive alien species ...

The Artist

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2011, Michel Hazanavicius - theatre The Artist is a film about the silent film era, told in silent film.  It sounds like pretentious ar...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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2009, David Yates -- download At this point in watching the series, I was deep in the throes of my lung infection, constantly feverish ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

3 short paragraphs: Shutter Island

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2010, Martin Scorsese -- Netflix I'm not well versed in Martin Scorsese's oeuvre... for no particular reason other the subject ...

3 short paragraphs: In Like Flint

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1967, Gordon Douglas -- Netflix I had heard the phrase "In Like Flint" sporadically over the first two decades of my life (havin...
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Four Lions

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Chris Morris, 2010 For the longest time I thought "spoof" and "satire" were interchangeable, taking me well into my ...

3 Short Paragraphs: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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2011, Michael Bay-splosion -- download Really?  It wasn't called Dark Side of the Moon  ?  Go figger. Pink Floyd must be happy. OK...
Monday, January 30, 2012

3 Short Paragraphs: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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2011, Rupert Wyatt -- download Like Graig , I was somewhat surprised to find out this movie was being made.  I am sure it was sold to ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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2011, David Fincher - Theatre I have to wonder how many people have attended this film without the spectre of rape looming large over it...

Beats, Rhyme and Life: The Journeys of A Tribe Called Quest

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2011, Michael Rapaport -- DVD After Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC and the Beastie Boys hit, but before Puffy, Biggie and Tupac rose came th...
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