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Step Up 3D – A Review
In March of 2009, I received a call from a friend in regard to a dance audition. Jon Chu, the director who made Step Up 2: The Streets (2008) was holding an online audition to find dancers for his next film. Not being a huge…
READ MOREIndiana Jones: An Appreciation – Part 3 – The Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in many ways, is a response by Spielberg and Lucas to the critics that were less than impressed with Temple. They drew away from the dark themes of the second movie, and followed the structure that made Raiders so…
READ MOREIndiana Jones: An Appreciation – Part 2 – The Temple of Doom
To put it simply, Raiders of the Lost Ark is just a fun movie to watch, with classic sequences that never get old. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg did not want a repeat of Raiders, but instead…
READ MOREIndiana Jones: An Appreciation – Part 1 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
As a kid, no other film franchise kept me on the edge of my seat, made me as excited, or captured my imagination more so than the Indiana Jones films. To me, Indy was the Alpha and Omega when it came to action heroes. The…
READ MORESalt – A Review
Salt (2010), the latest summer blockbuster starring Angelina Jolie, is an insulting excuse for an action film. The movie defies any kind of logic, suspense, emotion, or excitement, I actually felt anger coming out of the theater. While watching it, I tried to find some redeemable…
READ MOREFollowing – A Review
“Are you watching closely?” – Alfred Borden, The Prestige (2006) They pass us everyday, like ghosts. We see them, we are aware that they are there, but we know nothing about them; they are covers to books without anything written on the pages. Who am I…
READ MOREThe Lost Skeleton of Cadavra – A Review
I wrote in a previous article that I felt the worst kinds of movies are the ones where the filmmakers get lost in their own sense of self-importance. Where their inflated sense of artistry prevents them from making a movie that’s actually good. I hate…
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Inception – An Early Review
My mind has just been blown. Inception (2010), the latest film from writer-director Christopher Nolan, is a mind-boggling exercise of epic proportions. Not since David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (2001) has a film left me so utterly speechless; I do not even know where to begin…
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