Movie Reviews

I Love You Man

Posted: February 24, 2009 at 9:33 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel star in this solid comedy that is fairly original but lacks something that puts it into that upper pantheon of comedies over the last few years. Peter Klaven (Rudd) has just got engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones) when it dawns upon the couple that Peter doesn’t really have a candidate […]

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He’s Just Not That Into You

Posted: February 17, 2009 at 1:44 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This dramedy that is being sold as some silly romantic comedy is actually pretty serious and interesting look at relationships that works for the most part, outside vindicating the failures of some its characters in the end and warping young girl’s minds. The film follows an ensemble of intertwining characters and couples, for instance Jennifer […]

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Coraline

Posted: February 10, 2009 at 2:04 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Henry Selick’s latest stop motion adventure is his most beautiful yet and while after a first viewing it isn’t my favorite of his work, there is definitely a lot of room for this one to grow on a second and third go around. Coraline and her family have just moved into an apartment up in […]

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Notorious

Posted: February 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This biopic about the legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G. brings nothing new to the genre and plays it pretty safe with it’s main characters history, but the result is still an entertaining look at the man’s rise to fame. ‘Biggie’ was born Christopher Wallace, and he was raised by a single mother in Brooklyn where he […]

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Che

Posted: February 9, 2009 at 11:17 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This epic biopic about the Argentinean revolutionary is engaging, informative, and includes a phenomenal portrait and portrayal of this extraordinary individual by Benicio Del Toro. Che Guevara was a philosophizing Marxist doctor who felt that his Latin American people have been oppressed for too long and that a revolution by the people was the only […]

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Henry Poole is Here

Posted: February 3, 2009 at 12:02 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This dramedy about religion, life issue and what it does to people is a fairly uneventful tale, but it holds one interest and has a number of genuine moments throughout. Henry (Luke Wilson) is a down and out of it and after purchasing a suburban house in California, after he was unable to get the […]

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Taken

Posted: February 2, 2009 at 1:38 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Liam Nesson stars in this fantastic action/thriller that while not paving any new ground is constantly engaging, has great action and one of the more badass lead characters in a film in a while. Bryan (Liam Nesson) is recently retired special ops of sorts from the U.S. government that has moved out to Los Angeles […]

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Wendy and Lucy

Posted: February 2, 2009 at 11:29 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This quiet and simple story is a very real look at poverty and ones relationship to man’s best friend that works to pretty great effect, even on a shoe string budget. Wendy (Michelle Williams) & Lucy (Lucy the dog) are on their way to Alaska. Wendy is looking for work and hears there are plenty […]

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Frozen River

Posted: January 27, 2009 at 10:49 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This low budget indie film is a very excellent debut for Courtney Hunt, and is a solid little thriller/character study of poverty and what it can drive people too.Ray (Melissa Leo) has two sons and they live on the U.S./Canadian border in New York, they were planning on getting a new double wide home to […]

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Posted: January 26, 2009 at 9:25 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

The prequel and third film of the Underworld franchise is a fairly straight forward tale that is executed well and will please any fan of the series as it settles in as the second best film in the trilogy. Viktor (Bill Nighy) is the leader of a vampire clan somewhere in Europe and they survive […]

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