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Film Review: WELCOME TO THE RILEYS (2010)
All three main characters in Welcome to the Rileys have lost something and are dealing with the ramifications of that…
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Film Review: LET ME IN (2010)
Let Me In has one of the most engaging openings and following hospital sequences in a horror film since Zombie’…
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Film Review: BOY WONDER (2010)
Like the protagonists in Defendor and Kick-Ass, in Boy Wonder, an ordinary person with no powers or extraordinary abilities decides…
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Film Review: TEMPLE GRANDIN
Claire Danes and Julia Ormond give masterful performances in Temple Grandin. If Temple Grandin had been released in movie theaters,…
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Film Review: VAMPIRES SUCK
As spoofs go, Vampires Suck – a The Twilight Saga parody – is on the low end of the scale…
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Film Review: Tekken (2010)
Video game adaptations have become more and more prevalent, the four biggest being Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, and…
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Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)
A finely executed drama whose plot is as much about the past as it is the present. The Girl With…
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Film Review: Inception
Films that challenge the visual and narrative norm are a rarity and are seen as a financial risk in regard…
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Film Review: Winter’s Bone
Like No Country For Old Men, the environment and locale is made a character in the Winter’s Bone. Ree Dolly…
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Film Review: Chloe
Chloe is a love story and one story inside another. The strength of this film is that the groundwork for…
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Film Review: Splice
Steeped in geek-dom and centered with science fiction, Splice is a horror film where the horror comes last. The moral…
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Film Review: Valhalla Rising
A brutal, austere warrior’s tale missing elements that would make the film more than a mediation and more of a…
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Film Review: A Prophet (Un Prophète)
An indigent boy goes on a peripatetic journey of ascension within the criminal world in an institution purported to reform,…
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Film Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a horror movie with a sensational concept at its core: suturing together three human…
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Film Review: Battle for Terra
Much like Japanese anime, Battle for Terra is an animated film that takes itself and its subject matter seriously from…
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Film Review: Defendor
Defendor, Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), may be dimwitted and a goof but the world he lives in is real and…
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Film Review: Solomon Kane
Pulp author Robert E. Howard created many indelible characters, warriors that could stand the test of time. Most are familiar…
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