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Category: Movies
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‘Warm Bodies’ brings new life to teen romance genre
What do you get when you cross Romeo and Juliet with George Romero? You get a refreshingly original zombie romance in the form of Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies. Told from the POV of a teenage zombie who’s grown apathetic with his post-apocalyptic existence, Warm Bodies delivers a sweet, funny and fresh take on a classic…
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‘The Last Stand’ doesn’t quite deliver
After seeing Jee-woon Kim’s I saw the Devil, I was looking forward to seeing more of his projects. I went out and found The Good, the Bad, the Weird and enjoyed that. So, needless to say, when I saw the trailer for The Last Stand my interest was piqued. I was expecting something as crazy…
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Could Google hold the whole world hostage?
‘Google and The World Brain’ documentary to screen at The 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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Warm Bodies, a rom-zom-com
Zombies need love too! Warm Bodies opens Feb. 1st.
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Films we missed in 2012
We saw a lot of great films in 2012, but we didn’t have time to review them all. Here are some of the movies we didn’t write about this year. You can still catch some in theaters, others are definitely worth checking out when they hit blu-ray and VOD. Enjoy these bite sized reviews for…
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Making magic with Jim Carrey, Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi
Trailer for ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ has stacked the deck with an all star cast. Opens March 15th.
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Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ bloody, brutal and brilliant
Could any other director besides Quentin Tarantino bring us such a masterful spaghetti western/fairy tale/historical fiction period piece about slavery? Absolutely not! With Jamie Foxx in the titular role, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio in the mix, Django Unchained is one of the most unique films of the year and proves that…
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‘Django Unchained’ Tarantino’s Christmas gift to moviegoers
Quentin Tarantino is by far my favorite director. In my eyes he can do no wrong. Because of this I had been really looking forward to Django Unchained.I followed all of posts on social media and got really excited when pictures started rolling out. When I finally got to see the movie, it was an…
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‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ a visual treat, but no ‘Lord of the Rings’
Peter Jackson has finally returned to give us The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the kickoff film in his long-awaited cinematic adaptation of The Hobbit, which arrives 11 years after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment in Jackson’s LOTR trilogy. This time, the stakes aren’t as…
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‘Hitchcock’ brings the great director to a new crowd
Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense. During his career he directed over 50 films and is highly regarding even today. One of his most notable films was Psycho, a film about a serial killer who has an obsession with his mother, inspired by real life psycho, Ed Gein. Hitchcock follows what Alfred…
