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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: True Grit

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

The latest from the Coen Bros., True Grit, is their least odd and most straightforward film to date but there is still plenty of weirdness, laughs, and amazing performances that we expect from these guys in this great film. The film is not a remake of the 1969 John Wayne film of the same name […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Little Fockers

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 12:00 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

Little Fockers greatly improves over the abysmal second act of this trilogy, but while I was consistently chuckling along the way, the film lacks any innovation with little we haven’t seen before in the genre; or series. Greg and Pam Focker have had a set of twins and they are close to celebrating their latest […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: TRON: Legacy

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 4:30 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

TRON: Legacy returns the 80’s property to the screen with incredible visuals, a magnificent score, fantastic 3-D, inventive action, and an attempt at sci-fi world building that is ambitious and interesting but falls a bit short of being entirely clear or fascinating. Picking up 20 or so years after the original film, Flynn had gone […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Fighter

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 3:50 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

The Fighter is a fine character study mixed in with a nice little true life sports movie that I can’t help but feel didn’t reach its potential or bar set by its peers. Following the last attempt of Mickey Ward to win a boxing title we dive into the people around him and shape him […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: How Do You Know

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 2:20 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

How Do You Know provides a couple sporadic laughs but is more or less an abysmal failure of a movie at every turn. The story revolves around Lisa, an aging Olympic softball star, who gets cut from Team USA and finds herself trying to figure her life out.  Her life happens to run into a […]

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Another Take By Zac: TV Review: The Walking Dead: 1.5: Wildfire & 1.6: TS-19

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 7:29 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local, Television Reviews

I know, I know!  “It’s been over a week since the finale and three weeks since your last review; what the hell!”  Well I will just blame Thanksgiving, deal?  Any who, the first season has ended for the Walking Dead and while I enjoyed it I hope that the second season allows them to flesh […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Tourist

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 3:09 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

The Tourist takes its two super stars, Depp and Jolie, and uses them effectively to craft a somewhat odd amalgamation of genres that all feel a bit lite, yet still work. Jolie plays Elise, a Brit roaming Paris who is under surveillance constantly by the British governments with the hope that her wanted beau will […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

The new Narnia has left the mouse house and landed at Fox (and in 3D) and the results are a clumsy adventure that takes more than a couple steps back from the very good Prince Caspian. Dropping the two older Pevensie siblings and replacing them with their annoying cousin (who’s name sounds like useless, which […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Black Swan

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

Black Swan is another fantastic entry into Darren Aronofsky’s filmography that is driven by a wonderful lead performance by Natalie Portman that could very well possibly be my favorite film of the year when it is all said and done. The film follows Nina Sayers who has been a background ballet performer in an elite […]

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Another Take By Zac: TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.4: Vatos

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 6:10 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local, Television Reviews

Vatos, The Walking Dead’s fourth episode, sees the return of zombie action and a large chunk of the cast won’t be back for week 5. The Atlanta plot line didn’t really move that much forward this week other than the discovery of a new batch of survivors in a nursing home being protected by a […]

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