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Film Review – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Somewhere in the world, a news anchor is crying. It’s late and the day has been long. The world is sad and beautiful and there is only so much news a person can report. That’s the job of a news anchor, though—to keep on trucking…
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Film Review – Man of Tai Chi
In the world of martial arts, the practice of Tai Chi is considered a “soft” martial art. It typically involves slow movements and lots of meditation. Outside of a few knowledged individuals, Tai Chi is not known as a method of fighting. So it would…
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Film Review – Metallica: Through the Never
Heavy metal is dangerous. At least that’s the conceit that has followed and perpetuated its existence in the pop culture realm of music, pretty much since its birth back when bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin took the charge. Then, in 1986, heavy metal…
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Film Review – Riddick
It seems that most of the best endings to films come from either high level artistic fare, or B-movies. In fact, most of my favorite endings are from movies that otherwise wouldn’t be so enjoyable if it were not for their fantastic finales. Beneath the…
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Film Review – Rewind This!
Pretty much everyone who grew up in the 1980s has a story about their family’s first VCR. My family’s was a two-piece unit: one piece for the video cassette and the other for the controls. It came with a video camera and a remote, both…
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Film Review – Getaway
Some movies you can just tell by everything about them that they were thought up in an executive board meeting. Everything from the premise, to the director and casting, through the script to the execution, you can just see it all being brainstormed by people…
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Film Review – Drug War
Some of my favorite movies are the ones that start with the story already in progress. Michael Mann’s 2006 thriller Miami Vice is one of the first that comes to mind. The movie opens as agents Crockett and Tubbs are already deep in the middle…
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Film Review – Only God Forgives
There is something distinctly unique in the experience of watching a Nicolas Winding Refn film. No matter what the subject matter, there is always something antagonistic waiting under the surface to either shock with visceral intensity or disturb with subtle ease. As the Dutch writer/director…
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