Iron Man 3 Movie Review: Third Time’s a Charm
By Gordon S. Miller |
Not only does Iron Man 3 return the franchise to its glory, which I didn't find was as diminished by ...
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Iron Man Marathon: From Bad to Worse
By Rons Reviews |
With the premiere of The Avengers in 2012, AMC did it right with a Marvel Marathon consisting of the two ...
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Carnival in Costa Rica DVD Review: An Endless Unfunny Rom-Com Musical
By Luigi Bastardo |
In case it has slipped past both your central and peripheral paths of vision in recent years, the residents of ...
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Movie Review: A Good Idea with No Payoff
By Todd Karella |
In the opening of the fifth installment of the Star Trek franchise we find the Enterprise-A and her crew engaged ...
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Oblivion (2013) Movie Review: Could Be Where Tom Cruise Is Headed if He Keeps Trying Sci Fi
By Rons Reviews |
Tom Cruise does not try science fiction often, but when he does, the results are mediocre at best; until now. ...
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Movie Review: Like, Totally Awesome
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz Like most folks my age, I was introduced to the original Star Trek series when I ...
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My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part Two
By Lorna Miller |
My Saturday started off with a bit of nostalgia at “Bugs Bunny's 75th Birthday Bash”. Film critic Leonard Maltin and ...
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Tai Chi Hero Movie Review: A Worthy Successor
By Mark Buckingham |
I almost made a big mistake going into watching Stephen Fung's Tai Chi Hero -- I nearly disregarded the prequel, ...
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My 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Journal, Part One
By Lorna Miller |
As the fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival was approaching, I was filled with anticipation as I made my top ...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) DVD Review: You Say You Want a Revolution
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz I've reviewed a lot of catalogue titles over the years and through most of them, one ...
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Movie Review: You Can’t Keep a Good Vulcan Down
By Todd Karella |
As a life-long Star Trek fan, it's almost impossible to say there has ever been a bad Star Trek film. ...
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Cheech & Chong Animated Movie Review: About Damn Time
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno If you are too young to remember or lived your life under a rock for most ...
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Movie Review: Classic Storytelling
By Greg Barbrick |
For this fan, the greatest Star Trek movie of all time is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). ...
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Moneyball Movie Review: A Legitimate, Entertaining Film
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Sports movies are made quite often. Usually, they tell the tale of a ragtag bunch of ...
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Richard III (1955) Criterion Collection DVD Review: A Tremendous Film
By Greg Barbrick |
One of the most striking aspects of the newly restored Richard III (1955) is its magnificent use of color. As ...
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Review: Boldly Going Where They’ve Gone Before
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the May 17 release date for Star Trek Into Darkness approaches, it seemed like the perfect time for the ...
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By Mark Buckingham |
BBC Earth has been on a roll lately. Among others, they've hit us with Africa, One Life, and The Blue ...
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George A. Romero’s Knightriders (1981) Blu-ray Review: The Most Sincere, Underrated Drama About Adult Outcasts Ever Made
By Luigi Bastardo |
The setting is a quiet forested area, with a gentle, calming body of water nearby. A king awakens completely nude ...
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John Dies at the End DVD Review: Hey, Thanks for the Spoiler Alert!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Every filmmaker has some sort of visual signature that can be easily recognized in their works. Sometimes, such as in ...
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The Fast and the Furious (2001) Movie Review: Start Your Franchise Engines
By Gordon S. Miller |
With the sixth movie in the series, the creatively titled Fast & Furious 6, about to hit theaters on May 24, 2013 ...
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Broken City DHD Review: Taut Noir Thriller Debuts in a New Format
By Mark Buckingham |
Broken City became available for purchase last week, even though the Blu-ray and DVD aren't due out until closer to ...
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Warlock (1959) DVD Review: A Dynamic Western Presented in an Outdated, Eviscerating Format
By Luigi Bastardo |
OK, so let me bring you up-to-date here, kids: recently, Fox Cinema Archives released several classic motion pictures - originally ...
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Apartment for Peggy DVD Review: Good Film, Atrocious Presentation
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe In 1947, writer/director George Seaton teamed up with the delightful character actor Edmund Gwenn to shoot ...
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Repo Man Criterion Collection DVD Review: Punk All Over
By Greg Barbrick |
The seamy underbelly of Los Angeles has been explored in numerous films over the years. A few of my favorites ...
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Wife, Husband and Friend DVD Review: Hitting All the Flat Notes
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe The year 1939 is generally recognized as a golden one in Hollywood; indeed, some critics have ...
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Oh, Men! Oh, Women! DVD Review: Oh, Brother!
By Luigi Bastardo |
If someone were to voluntarily stroll up to me and willingly make it a point to talk to me about ...
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Panic in the Streets Blu-ray Review: Keeping Order by Breaking the Law
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno It has been 63 years since Panic in the Streets first opened and it wasn't a ...
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The Marriage-Go-Round DVD Review: James Mason, ’60s Swinger at Large!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Adapting a work from one form of entertainment to another is not an easy task. Imagine, if you will, what ...
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Ministry of Fear Criterion Collection DVD Review: (Don’t) Let Them Eat Cake
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe Stephen Neale, a handsome young Brit, stares at a clock on the wall, counting down the ...
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A Haunted House DVD Review: Bumps in the Night Turn into Dull Thuds
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez With Scary Movie 5 coming out this weekend, it would make sense to review that other ...
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Inhumans DVD Review: Welcome Back, Old Friends
By Steve Geise |
Marvel has released quite a few motion comics in the past few years, but none as surprising a choice as ...
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Fraulein DVD Review: War is Hell, Particularly When It’s Pan-and-Scan
By Will McKinley |
Classic film fans are, as a rule, a nostalgic bunch. But here's one retroism none of us pines for: “This ...
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Gate of Hell Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Not Quite Heavenly, but Far from Hellish
By Steve Geise |
Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, this Oscar-winning Japanese film has fallen off the radar over the past few decades ...
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Umberto D. Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Old Man and His Dog
By Gordon S. Miller |
One of the last great films from the Italian neorealism movement, Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. focuses on the struggles ...
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Woochi: The Demon Slayer Blu-ray Review: Rebranding Gone Awry
By Mark Buckingham |
The 2009 Korean-folklore-inspired box office hit Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard has been retitled Woochi: The Demon Slayer and landed ...
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Lincoln Blu-ray Review: History Can Be Entertaining in the Right Hands
By Steve Geise |
Lincoln is one of those films I had to force myself to watch. As a Very Important Film from esteemed ...
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So Undercover Blu-ray Review: Straight to Video and It’s Obvious Why
By Todd Karella |
When the FBI needs someone to infiltrate a sorority in order to protect the daughter of a mob informant, they ...
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Bachelorette Blu-ray Review: Four Despicable Friends and a Wedding
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Amanda Salazar Like the countless wedding-themed movies that have been made, something always goes wrong that needs to ...
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Killing Them Softly DVD Review: Absolutely Worth Watching
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ben Platko What do Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, and James Gandolfini have in common? They were all in ...
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One Life DVD Review: Most Impressive
By Greg Barbrick |
Nature programs have been a staple of family-friendly viewing for decades now. Some have proven to be very popular with ...
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Prometheus (2012) Movie Review: ‘Pings, glitch, life form.’
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule This is the prequel that isn't for the Aliens-series that Ridley Scott began with Alien (1979). It ...
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Lincoln (2012) Movie Review: Deserved the Best Picture Oscar
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis. Abraham Lincoln. It is no surprise that a movie combining this trio ...
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake Blu-ray Review: All Hiss and No Bite
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz There's a car out there somewhere. It's at least 20 years old, it's either primer-grey or ...
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Stitches Blu-ray Review: An Irish Horror Spoof That Needs Some Polish
By Mark Buckingham |
After the titular Stitches the Clown (Ross Noble) shows up late for a routine kids' birthday party, he ends up ...
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The Company You Keep (2012) Movie Review: Redford Delivers a Decent Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Neil Gordon's novel of the same name, Robert Redford's The Company You Keep is a political thriller powered ...
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I Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ’60s Review: A Great Tribute to the Man and His Music
By Gordon S. Miller |
The subtitle of this set is slightly inaccurate as almost all the content focuses on the year 1968, two of ...
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What I Must See at the 2013 TCM Film Festival
By Lorna Miller |
As spring approaches, one of the things I look forward to with high anticipation is the TCM Classic Film Festival. ...
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence DVD Review: Or, Before They Were Stars: The Movie
By Luigi Bastardo |
Everyone remembers the late great actor Glenn Ford for a different reason, whether it be his roles as Pa Kent, ...
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Pier Paolo Pasolni’s Trilogy of Life Criterion Collection DVD Review: Make Mine Bunuel
By Luigi Bastardo |
As one of those individuals that became the slightly pretentious artsy-fartsy feller during his teenage years whilst growing up in ...
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Raiders from Beneath the Sea DVD Review: ‘As Far As I’m Concerned, You Stink of Trouble!’
By Luigi Bastardo |
When I received my copy of Raiders from Beneath the Sea in the mail, I knew I by the artwork ...
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