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Maniac

December 16, 2010 // 0 Comments

The horror genre is all about make believe. From animatronics and masks to corn syrup and CGI, filmmakers strive to create the perfect atmosphere for their movie. Every once in a while, a movie crosses the line of illusion and finds itself in a very [...]

The A-Team

December 13, 2010 // 0 Comments

I wasn't sure if a feature film remake of a TV series would really fly, but I was definitely willing to give it a shot when 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's Blu-Ray version of "The A-Team" arrive in our offices. Promising to [...]

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

December 9, 2010 // 0 Comments

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a 23 year old slacker with a broken heart. A year prior, his girlfriend dumped him and he hasn't been the same. The film finds Scott between jobs and hooked up with a 17 year old high school girlfriend named Knives [...]

That Evening Sun

December 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

Hal Holbrook first caught my attention in the early 1980's. As a huge horror movie fan, his roles in 'The Fog' and 'Girls Night Out' (a.k.a. 'The Creeper') have always stuck with me. Who could forget the timid character [...]

Predators

December 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

Rebooting a franchise can be a tricky endeavor. While it presents the opportunity to take creative liberties with well known characters and creatures, there is an obligation to recognize previous entries in the series and how they inspired an updated [...]

Meet The Parents

November 30, 2010 // 0 Comments

Meet The Parents (2000) Universal Home Entertainment In the realm of film criticism, movies must sometimes be judged in the same way as just about anything else in life, that is, did it accomplish what it set out to do? For example, did the comedy make [...]

Pillars Of The Earth

November 24, 2010 // 0 Comments

Based on Ken Follet's best-selling novel of the same name, "Pillars Of The Earth" tells the fictional story of a small rural village in England that rises to power amidst struggles of war. It is an epic novel with a plot line that spans [...]

City Island

November 22, 2010 // 0 Comments

Dysfunctional families have been inviting themselves into homes for years. With the golden ticket of DVD and Blu-ray, The Tenenbaums, Hoods ('The Ice Storm'), and Grapes ('What's Eating Gilbert Grape') have given viewers a diverse [...]

The Expendables

November 17, 2010 // 0 Comments

With a movie like "The Expendables, " you simply can't go wrong. The concept is sheer brilliance on Sylvester Stallone's part, showing once again that there is so much more brains to his brawn than one might expect. Bringing together [...]

The Losers

November 15, 2010 // 0 Comments

Anybody who knows me can tell you that action movies are typically lower on my must see list. Given my love for action sub genres (horror, sci-fi, etc) one would think this a bit of an odd quirk. It's not that I don't like them; I am just rarely [...]
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