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Film Review – Cuban Fury
Most romance movies are targeted to a female audience. The protagonist is usually a woman, and the story arc tends to follow her trajectory towards a successful love match. It’s a tried and true formula that works well when done right, but it’s hard to…
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Film Review – Oculus
Just to be perfectly clear, the trailer for the new horror film Oculus sucks. Big time. I recently saw the preview in a movie theater and was disappointed by how crappy it made the movie seem. The film has a lot going for it, but…
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Film Review – Awful Nice
Awful Nice, the second feature film directed by Todd Sklar, tells the story of two brothers, Jim and Dave. Jim (James Pumphrey) is a college professor/writer who has jumped through all the hoops and created a respectable life for himself. He has a wife, a…
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Film Review – Tim’s Vermeer
Where I went to art school, they didn’t actually teach you how to paint anything. You just kind of showed up and either already knew what you were doing or you just figured something out. (I was in the latter camp, fyi.) But that’s a…
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Top 10 2013 – Adelaide’s List
I don’t watch a lot of new films because I am middle-aged and grumpy, and I want to watch things when I want to watch them, not when they are in the theaters. So every year my “best of” list is about what I watched…
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Film Review – The Girls in the Band
I like jazz. I like it a lot. Punk rock saved my life, but jazz helped give it meaning. I never feel more cool than I do when I listen to Moanin’ by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Even on the 200th listen, I…
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Double Feature Showdown – Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games
Last year when The Hunger Games came out, all I heard was Battle Royale this, Battle Royale that. Everybody kept talking about how similar the plots were between the two, but nobody really gave specifics, other than “kids forced to kill each other off until…
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Film Review – Frozen
I kind of hate reviewing kids’ movies, because if I don’t like them, there is always someone who accuses me of being a bad person who hates love, children, and family. I don’t really dislike those things, or at least not all of the time.…
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