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Cannes Journal: The Dead Don’t Die

Jason Gorber — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:00:27 +0000

Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has all the parts to make a terrific film – a stellar cast, a smart and resilient indie director, and a cinematically literate tale about the undead that should appease fans of George Romero. Instead, like the corpses that litter the ground, the bits never quite assemble in a...

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‘Survivors Guide to Prison’ Review: Painful Jailhouse Confessions

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Prison isn’t a great place. We know this. Prison is also a business, and that business is booming, so it’s not as if things are going to change. Director Matthew Cooke’s sensationalistic and celebrity-filled (starring Danny Trejo!) new documentary attempts to unpack everything that’s wrong with the U.S. penal system. He uses many manipulative techniques...

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‘Mr. Right’ Review: Violently Romantic

Philip Brown — Wed, 25 May 2016 19:00:23 +0000

‘Mr. Right’ is no masterpiece, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot of fun and that’s all that it really needed to be. Blindingly bright, gushingly romantic, wilfully silly, and pulse-raisingly action packed, it’s a blast of pure entertainment that’s practically impossible not to be charmed by. Maybe it’s a bit dumb and maybe...

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Weekend Roundtable: Musicians Turned Actors

Josh Zyber — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:00:19 +0000

This week, we both lost David Bowie and gained a new movie starring Ice Cube. I’m not sure that’s a fair trade-off, frankly. Nonetheless, that’s what the universe decided to bring us. With no other connection between these two events, let’s look at other examples, for good or ill, of musicians who have made a...

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‘Brick Mansions’ Review: Parkour! Parkour!

Philip Brown — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:00:07 +0000

Writer/producer Luc Besson has shoved parkour action, fast ‘n furious car carnage, and RZA stunt casting into a blender and emerged with ‘Brick Mansions’. Sadly, the results aren’t nearly as fun as the ingredients sound. In fact, this is a downright stupid movie. When ‘District B13‘ emerged from Luc Besson’s Eurotrash genre factory in 2004,...

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Now Playing: So-So ‘G.I. Joe’

Josh Zyber — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:00:46 +0000

Make no mistake, I consider 2009’s ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra‘ to be one of my most hated movies, and a desecration of a property that I’ve loved since childhood. Yet here we are four years later, and I’ve found myself approaching its inevitable sequel with some measure of cautious optimism. Does ‘G.I. Joe:...

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Weekend Movies: Fists, Planes and Videogames

Luke Hickman — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:00:10 +0000

This weekend’s three nationwide releases are all about wrecking things. While one is bound to wreck the box office, the other two are simply train wrecks. The queen mother of new movies this weekend is Disney Animation’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph‘. The film opens on more than 3,700 screens. (That’s nearly 2,000 more than the other two...

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The Trailer Park: Reach with an Iron Fist

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:00:55 +0000

Just because the summer movie season is halfway over doesn’t mean that we won’t see another crop of action extravaganzas before the end of the year. In fact, two reasonably good-looking flicks may end 2012 with a bang. ‘Jack Reacher’ I actually don’t know much about the Jack Reacher character, other than that he’s an...

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