Reviews

Movie Review: “Burlesque” Starring Christina Aguilera and Cher

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 9:26 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Christina Aguilera makes her big screen debut as Ali, an Iowa farm girl who’s just landed in the big city (Los Angeles) when she comes across the club Burlesque. As an aspiring singer (she is played by Christina Aguilera, after all) she’s immediately entranced by this hyper-stylized throwback to the days of glittery costumes and […]

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Movie Review: Disney’s “Tangled” Starring Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Brad Garrett

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 9:23 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Don’t let the title fool you. Tangled is really Rapunzel in “tween-boy targeted” clothing. The film marks, with surprisingly little fanfare I might add, Disney Studio’s 50th animated feature. Mandy Moore stars as our formerly-titular hero while Zachary Levi plays Flynn Ryder, a charming ne’re-do-well who stumbles upon the tower in which she’s been imprisoned […]

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Weekly Gleek Report – “Furt” w/ Guest Star Carol Burnett

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 2:35 am   /   Local, Television, Television Reviews

Answer: Underwhelming. Question: What word best describes tonight’s episode of Glee? Tonight Glee had so much going for it…two weddings, a hefty dose of time with Sue, a decent message about bullying and Carol-freaking-Burnett and yet it was the worst possible thing any piece of entertainment can be…boring. Allow me to set the stage with […]

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Burlesque

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 2:31 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Burlesque follows a story that many have seen before, in fact we saw a similar story a decade ago with Coyote Ugly. You know the one, about the small town girl who has big city dreams. She moves to the city only to find that her dream isn’t waiting for her on a silver platter. […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Love and Other Drugs

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

Love and Other Drugs is the latest from Ed Zwick and features a couple of great lead performances in a story that does a lot of things well but has a hard time finding a narrative through line. Zwick is a history buff and likes to blend fiction with facts and this is another example […]

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Tangled

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 11:37 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

The Disney Core Four.  At least, that’s what I like to call them.  The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King are films that I could watch over and over because of both the gorgeous animation and the wonderful musical numbers.  I have been waiting for Disney to return to form, […]

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Faster

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 11:30 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

“We create our heaven and hell.” Perhaps the most sagacious words ever uttered by a heroin addict shooting up in her bathroom. Much like her, anyone who goes and sees “Faster” will create their own heaven and hell, depending on whether they watch the entire movie. I’m a guy. I like action movies. I’ll relentlessly […]

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Love & Other Drugs

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 11:30 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

One of the reasons I quit my six-figure salaried job on Wall Street was because I could get unlimited movie passes and an even more exorbitant salary. But really, it was for the love of the movies I’d get to see. Clearly, one of the films I had in mind was Love & Other Drugs. […]

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Made in Dagenham

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 8:08 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Historical film pieces can tend to be boring or dry, especially if they are from a country that is not your own. But for some reason, director Nigel Cole makes it endearing and educational at the same time. Made in Dagenham is a British film based on the real life account of the 1968 machinists […]

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Fair Game

Posted: November 19, 2010 at 3:35 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Fair Game is a film about based on the true life account of ex CIA operative Valerie Plame. She was outed as an operative by a White House advisor, supposedly because she was not giving them intelligence that fit with their weapons of mass destruction ideology that they were trying to push at the time. […]

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