Reviews

Valentine’s Day

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

“Valentine’s Day” talks a big game, as it stars a lot of well known actors. Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Julia Roberts, George Lopez, Patrick Dempsey, Kathy Bates, Taylor Lautner, Anne Hathaway, and Topher Grace are amongst the celebrity cast. There seems to be enough stars in the film to where everyone can find […]

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LOST: Season 6 – Episode 6.3 – What Kate Does – Review

Posted: February 10, 2010 at 3:50 am   /   Film, Local, Television Reviews

So, episode 3 (the premiere while one episode counted as two) of the final season of LOST doesn’t fire on all cylinders like the premiere and even induces a couple of head scratches (and not the good ones) along the way. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spoilers  Ahead !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The title would have you believe that this is a […]

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Dear John – Movie Review

Posted: February 5, 2010 at 8:28 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

What John Grisham is to legal thrillers, Nicholas Sparks has become to chaste romantic weepies about star-crossed lovers. The latest film based on his work is Dear John. Starring Amanda Seyfried as Savannah and Channing Tatum as the eponymous John. The two meet while she is on Spring Break at the beach and he is […]

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From Paris With Love – Movie Review

Posted: February 5, 2010 at 8:25 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

In the 1988 cinematic masterpiece They Live, Roddy Piper uttered the classic line, “I’ve come to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.”  So it is with John Travolta’s latest From Paris with Love only instead of bubblegum, Travolta has come to chew scenery…and there’s plenty of it.  He plays Charlie Wax, […]

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From Paris With Love

Posted: February 5, 2010 at 6:37 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

From Paris With Love is director Pierre Morel’s third feature film, following the likes of District B13 and the sleeper hit Taken. Unlike its predecessors,  the film concentrates more on the guns, explosions, and thoughtless action – rather than the solid storyline and dialogue.  And the great thing is — it doesn’t even matter. Reece, […]

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Dear John

Posted: February 4, 2010 at 11:39 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

I was looking forward to seeing Dear John for weeks before seeing the movie, all the time having high hopes. Often times when that’s the case, it doesn’t end up to be as good as you hope.  Most romantic movies are unrealistic, and just cheesy. NOT Dear John. If there was a John and Savannah […]

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Lost Season 6 Premiere Review – What the What?

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 3:46 am   /   Film, Local, Television Reviews

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Note: If you have not watched the episode yet, there are spoilers ahead! So, I am already ready to anoint this alternate universe(?) enhanced season premiere of LOST into my top five favorite episodes and am incredibly intrigued at the possibilities of this new thematic device being introduced to show. […]

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Edge of Darkness – Movie Review

Posted: February 1, 2010 at 8:29 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Mel Gibson returns to acting with his first role since 2003’s The Singing Detective in the new action-thriller Edge of Darkness.  He stars as Tommy Craven, a by-the-book Boston police detective whose activist daughter (Bojana Novakovic) is gunned down on his front doorstep.  While prevailing wisdom is that she is an innocent bystander with her […]

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Edge of Darkness

Posted: January 29, 2010 at 12:02 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Mel Gibson with Martin Campbell returns from a long drought of staring in a picture with the revenge thriller Edge of Darkness which allows Gibson to do some nice work but falls flat pretty much everywhere else. Gibson plays Craven, a Boston police detective, whose daughter almost instantly upon her return home for a visit […]

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When in Rome

Posted: January 29, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

It didn’t take long to get a huge stink bomb of a movie this year in 010 and that movie is When in Rome.  The movie is so poorly written, is almost devoid of humor, is absolutely absurd, and gets nothing out of a decent slate of talent that made the unfortunate decision of taking […]

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