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Movie Review: ‘World War Z’
With all the reported rewrites and reshoots revolving around World War Z, it’s any wonder the film ever even made it to the big screen. Director Marc Forster may not seem like the man that should have...
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Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ (2013)
World War Z (photo credit: Paramount Pictures) Disclosure: I read Max Brooks’ 2006 novel World War Z many years prior to watching the film adaptation directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Stranger...
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Movie Review: ‘Fury’ (2014)
War films just aren’t my cup of tea. There, I said it. I know — just like every other genre — they all basically play out the same. Lots of heroism and flag waving, there’s just not a lot of character...
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Movie Review: ‘Fury’
“Wars never end quietly.” Brad Pitt stars and co-produces the action-drama Fury set in April 1945 in Germany during the end of World War II. David Ayer (Harsh Times, Sabotage) directs and writes the...
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DVD Review: ‘Not Another Celebrity Movie’
The tag line for Not Another Celebrity Movie is “A hilarious new comedy with the biggest `celebrity’ cast on the smallest production budget ever filmed.” Well, “hilarious” might be a bit of hyperbole,...
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Music Review: Alan Silvestri – ‘Allied: Music from the Motion Picture’
A stellar orchestra featuring a strings-and-piano tag team combine to create a nice ebb and flow in Alan Silvestri’s latest motion picture musical score for the World War II romantic thriller film,...
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Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and the ’60s Filmic Simulation
Joan Didion wrote in her book of essays White Album (1979): “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, at exactly the moment when word of the murders...
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Barry Bonds Trial: You Can’t Handle the Truth!
I love that line delivered by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. It’s one of those iconic kinds of cinematic dialogue. We can argue about other ones that are better: “Here’s Johnny!” uttered by...
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Movie Preview: September 2011
While the summer season may have completely fizzled out as far as box office returns go, there was still plenty of good films thrown our way this August. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fright Night,...
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Movie Review: Moneyball
Ah, the sweet fall season has arrived. While most around the country are gearing up for some football, I am privy to another time honored tradition, Oscar season. Ironically, I don’t care a whole lot...
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