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‘CHIPS’ Review: Sucker Ponched

Philip Brown — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:00:26 +0000

Of all the old TV shows to get a sudden Hollywood reboot, ‘CHiPs’ had to be pretty low on the list of viable contenders. Does anyone care about ‘CHiPs’ anymore? Does anyone still watch it? I guess Dax Shepard does, and since he’s been slowly forging a directorial career rooted in driving cars, working with...

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‘Rings’ Review: Back to the Well

Philip Brown — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:00:07 +0000

Considering that the movie has been through four release dates and hinges on dead technology, you’ll likely be incredibly unsurprised to hear that ‘Rings’ isn’t a particularly good film. Matter of fact, it’s a bad one. You’d think it would be tough to get a new sequel to ‘The Ring’ going these days given that...

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‘The Magnificent Seven’ (2016) Review: The “Seven” Part Is Accurate

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:00:42 +0000

No one ever asked for a remake of ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Quite apart from the fact that the original movie is a product of its time, the thing was already a remake of ‘Seven Samurai’. Remaking a remake sounds more like a parody of Hollywood unoriginality than a real project. Yet somehow here we are....

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‘Phantom Boy’ Review: Crime and Punishment and Whimsy

Philip Brown — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:00:25 +0000

For those who used to love such things, it’s been sad to watch the art of hand drawn animation die a slow death in the CGI age. Something tactile about process is irreplaceable by a digital sheen, and there’s a magic to the simple wonderment of watching drawings come to life. ‘Phantom Boy’ is the...

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‘Jurassic World’ Review: Bigger, Louder, Dumber

Philip Brown — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:00:46 +0000

It’s amazing how a few decades can change standards in moviegoing. In 1993, simply seeing Steven Spielberg throw credible dinosaurs up on the big screen qualified as an unprecedented success of cinematic spectacle. These days, Colin Trevorrow spends the last 20 minutes of his movie staging a massive multi-species dino battle royale that transforms an...

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‘Run All Night’ Review: ‘Cause When the Feelin’s Right…

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:00:51 +0000

The strangest thing about ‘Run All Night’ is the fact that it just can’t decide what movie it wants to be. For a while, it seems as though it will be a hardboiled crime thriller littered with movie stars playing street toughs. Then someone threatens the life of Liam Neeson’s son, and we all know...

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‘The Judge’ Review: Painless Oscar Baiting

Philip Brown — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:00:57 +0000

Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall star as a broken father/son combo who need to make things right. And with that, we officially enter Oscar season, folks. ‘The Judge’ is a movie made purely and blatantly to win awards and scoop up all the box office dollars that come with them. Thankfully, it’s also an...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Judge’

Philip Brown — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:00:08 +0000

Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall combine forces for an estranged father/son bonding story that doubles as a courtroom drama. In other words, the movie is practically designed to win golden awards statues. Thankfully, it’s an entirely watchable at that. Downey stars as the type of slick, morally questionable, fast-talking lawyer very much in the...

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Netflix Watch: Romance, Sci-Fi Style

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:00:10 +0000

It’s not often that we see the romantic-comedy formula set in a science-fiction universe. The following two independent films try to show us that these two genres can in fact work pretty well together. ‘Happy Accidents’ Director Brad Anderson (‘The Machinist‘, ‘Session 9’) melds the feel-good quirkiness of the rom-com with the tangled elaborateness of...

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Weekend Movies: Action, Lightweight and Animated Fluff

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:29 +0000

The month of bad movie releases is halfway over. Two weeks down and only two more to go. After this bland weekend, we at least get promising titles such as ‘Haywire’ and ‘The Grey’ in subsequent weeks. Bite your tongue and make it through this weekend, and it’ll soon be over. After having to eat...

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