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Off the Shelf: Ronin

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:00:02 +0000

Although it wasn’t much of a box office smash back in 1998, John Frankenheimer’s action thriller Ronin eventually became a cult hit on video, largely due to its terrific car chases. The film has been released on Blu-ray twice to date – first by MGM in 2009 and then in 2017 as a remastered Special...

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Review: Wishing Every Show Was the Last Show

Jason Gorber — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Let’s take it as fact that ABBA is one of the greatest, most infectious musical groups ever assembled, a brilliant ray of Scandinavian sunshine pop that thumps its disco beats into one’s heart. Let’s also admit that “jukebox musicals” take even more suspension of disbelief than straight-ahead musicals, slamming song after song from disparate contexts...

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‘Our Kind of Traitor’ Review: Le Carre Like Clockwork

Philip Brown — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:00:25 +0000

It’s a bit strange that there have been more cinematic adaptations of books by paranoid spy specialist John le Carré over the past decade than there were from the 1960s to the 1990s combined. On a certain level, the author’s novels are dated to Cold War politics, yet films like ‘The Constant Gardener’, ‘Tinker Tailor...

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‘Cinderella’ Review: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Reboot

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:00:29 +0000

If you told me 10-15 years ago that there would be a live action ‘Cinderella’ movie directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by half the directors of ‘American Pie’, I would have told you to “Shut yo mouth” like one of the backup singers in ‘Shaft’. Yet here we are many moons later, and not...

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‘Nymphomaniac’ Review: Lars von Trier’s Latest Provocation

Philip Brown — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:00:39 +0000

For years, Lars von Trier has threatened to deliver his take on an “erotic” movie. The plucky provocateur has always brought an exploitation filmmaker’s chutzpah and showmanship to his career. Backed by a delightfully nasty ad campaign and the promise of X-rated director’s cuts with CG-inserted porn star naughty bits, ‘Nymphomaniac’ thankfully proves to be...

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Off the Shelf: 28 Random Observations About ‘Deep Blue Sea’

Aaron Peck — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:00:26 +0000

“Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark’s fin…” Much like LL Cool J’s perplexing theme song lyrics, the reason why I put ‘Deep Blue Sea’ in the Blu-ray player last week is just as mystifying, especially to me. There it was, still on my shelf, still factory sealed, only ‘Cyrus‘ and ‘The Dark Crystal‘...

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