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Disney’s The Princess and the Frog – Movie Review

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 10:04 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

When Pixar wiz kid John Lasseter took over as Walt Disney Studios CEO, he made an interesting announcement: he wanted Disney to get back into traditionally animated films.  It was interesting in so much as conventional industry wisdom was that kids today no longer wanted hand drawn cartoons, preferring instead the computer animation of movies […]

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Up in the Air – Movie Review

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 9:56 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) fires people.  It’s his job.  He’s not a CEO nor does he work in Human Resources.  He is a hired gun brought in to facilitate a business’ bloodletting.  He handles the dirty work “the suits” don’t have the stomach for.  As such, he exists in a world of perpetual travel.  Constantly […]

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Brothers – Movie Review

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal play brothers in the aptly titled new film Brothers. They are, respectively, Sam and Tommy Cahill. The brothers, as cinematic siblings tend to be, are polar opposites. Sam is an upstanding overachieving military man with a wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and two daughters. Tommy is an ex-con fresh out of […]

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Everybody’s Fine – Movie Review

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 10:24 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

One’s opinion of the new Robert De Niro film Everybody’s Fine will depend largely on one’s opinion of sentimentality. De Niro plays recent widower Frank Goode. His children are grown and living in different cities; he now spends his days alone and meticulously maintaining his lawn. He’s eagerly anticipating his kids all returning home for […]

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Roger Qbert Reviews “Twilight” starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

Posted: November 21, 2008 at 1:11 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

If you’re a teenage girl you’re only reading this to be told what you want to hear. So here it goes, Twilight is the best movie ever made. It’s so spectacular that Hollywood has decided to cease making films (not counting Twilight sequels, of course). Since all other films committed to celluloid would pale in […]

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