Tag: Chris Columbus

Rumor Mill: Chris Columbus Directing New “Superman” Movie

Posted: July 11, 2010 at 10:46 pm   /   Local, Movie News

On an average day when you read speculation about Hollywood dealings, you can expect over half of what is rumored to be true. This is one of the times where you pray that the rumors are indeed true, or you might be witnessing a colossal failure among the magnitude of Battlefield Earth. Superman Homepage is […]

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Movie Review

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 8:20 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Heavy is the head that seeks the Harry Potter crown.  So it is for the cumbersomely titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  With visions of franchise-driven dollar signs dancing in his head Chris Columbus, director of the first two Potter films, attempts to bring another popular “kid lit” fantasy epic to the […]

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 2:24 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Percy Jackson has the unfortunate pleasure of being compared to Harry Potter. The coincidences are many. They are both different takes of the monomyth or the hero’s journey that takes place in so many other stories such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and The Matrix.  Complicating matters for the new Percy Jackson films […]

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Countdown to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Part 5 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Review

Posted: July 11, 2009 at 1:01 am   /   Film, Local

First, a bit of a confession. I was not always a fan of the Potter series, in fact I would tell anyone who listened that I thought it was stupid. I was an ignorant teenager at the time who just happened to be a little older than the trend. I was big into my fancy […]

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Countdown to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Part 4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Review

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 2:13 am   /   Film, Local

The last parts of the countdown will be reviews of all the currently released Harry Potter films. I will mention how it holds up compared to the books, if it held up as well or kept the tone. Most reviews view the films themselves, this will be a review based on the source material as […]

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I Love You, Beth Cooper

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 10:29 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Chris Columbus will have a tough time picking up the pieces of his career after this atrocious and unwatchable mess that everyone involved with should be ashamed of for participating in or even letting it get to production. I am not going to sum up the plot because it doesn’t matter, if you see this […]

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I Love You Beth Cooper, Moment of Truth with Hayden Panettiere

Posted: May 28, 2009 at 5:09 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Everyone harbors a secret desire to reveal their true feelings though rarely do we act on it. But the new motion picture comedy I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER and its star Hayden Panettiere are about to change all that by inviting people to upload their confessional videos to iloveyoubethcooper.com for a special event entitled BETH […]

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