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‘Only the Brave’ Review: Firefighter Drama Not Quite a Blazing Success

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:00:34 +0000

There’s a fine line between a contemporary movie harkening back to old-fashioned entertainment and feeling dated. ‘Only the Brave’ walks that tightrope and slips over to the latter side more often than not. The film wants to be a Howard Hawks-ian ode to the poetry of likable men under dire circumstances. Fair enough. However, this...

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‘American Assassin’ Review: Put a Bullet in It

Philip Brown — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:00:19 +0000

These days, it’s almost difficult to remember that terrorists used to be the most common action movie villains around. The ’80s and ’90s filmmakers who relied on that trope weren’t attempting to be political. Terrorists were just the easy bad guy targets of action heroes blowing stuff up real good. Today, any action movie hinged...

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‘True Detective’ 2.07 Recap: “You See Me Managing an Applebee’s?”

Shannon Nutt — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:00:48 +0000

I think few would argue that the penultimate episode of ‘True Detective’ this season is one of the best. Now, don’t misunderstand me, I wouldn’t rank this week’s episode as a great hour of TV by any definition of the phrase, but as far as what we’ve been treated to this season, this entry is...

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‘True Detective’ 2.06 Recap: “A Mexican Standoff with Actual Mexicans”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:00:31 +0000

Despite the fact that the last couple of episodes have been much more coherent than what we got earlier in the season, I feel safe in saying now that Season 2 of ‘True Detective’ is a huge disappointment. Not just in comparison to Season 1, which was arguably a masterpiece of TV drama, but by...

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‘True Detective’ 2.05 Recap: “Never Too Late to Start All Over Again”

Shannon Nutt — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:00:25 +0000

I won’t go as far as to call this week’s episode of ‘True Detective’ a good one – the season is far too much of a mess to make that proclamation – but I will say that in terms of storytelling, this is one of the most straightforward entries. In other words, I didn’t spend...

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‘True Detective’ 2.04 Recap: “Sometimes Your Worst Self Is Your Best Self”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:00:32 +0000

Hey everybody, it’s time to recap another episode of ‘True Detective’, the show that makes you pay close attention in order to unravel a mystery that you don’t give two hoots about. I’ve tried to give this series a chance, honestly I have. But at the midway point of this second season, I’m not any...

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‘True Detective’ 2.03 Recap: “No Country for White Men”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:00:16 +0000

Remember those old movie serials where, at the end of a particular episode, the hero would drive his car off a cliff only to reveal in the next chapter that he jumped out before the car went over the ledge? That’s kind of what we get on ‘True Detective’. Normally, I’d be upset about playing...

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‘True Detective’ 2.01 Recap: “I Welcome Judgment”

Shannon Nutt — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:00:22 +0000

It has been close to a year and a half since the first season of HBO’s ‘True Detective’ wrapped up, and it was one of the best first years of a TV series you’re going to find anywhere, past or present. Viewers knew from the beginning that ‘True Detective’ was an anthology series – with...

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Now Playing: SEAL of Approval

Bryan Kluger — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:00:29 +0000

Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor’ is an intense and gritty true account of a failed Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan. Even though the title tells us that only one person will make it out alive, Berg pulls out all the stops, and gives us an hour and a half of sheer brutality, along with some great...

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Blu-ray Highlights for August 28th, 2012 – Miss!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:00:42 +0000

This week, one of the biggest box office flops of the year makes its way to Blu-ray. If you didn’t feel that the movie was worth paying to see in theaters, are you more likely to pay to see it at home? New Releases Poor Taylor Kitsch is having a pretty crappy summer. This was...

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Now Playing: Toss This ‘Battleship’ a Life-Preserver

Luke Hickman — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:32 +0000

I’ve been an unapologetic fan of director Peter Berg for some time now, but today I hang my head in shame for his extreme failure. This old ‘Battleship’ capsizes before it even leaves the dock. Imagine every big-budget blockbuster you’ve ever seen crammed into one 131-minute movie, and that’s what you’re getting with ‘Battleship’. It...

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Full Metal Jackets: Get John Carter

Tom Landy — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:06 +0000

One of the most poorly-marketed box office flops ever is in the works for Blu-ray, and Canada will be getting metal packaging exclusive to Future Shop stores. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic novel ‘A Princess of Mars’, Disney’s big-budget sci-fi action/adventure follows a Civil War soldier named John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) who is teleported...

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