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Mar 5th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: Movie Reviews
A snappy, engaging thriller that overcomes a somewhat bloated midsection with a fantastic payoff.
Tags: England, ewan mcgregor, intrigue, Kim Catrall, London, memoirs, olivia williams, pierce brosnan, political, politics, roman polanski, The Ghost Writer, thriller, torture, US, waterboarding, witty, writer Posted in Movie Reviews |
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Feb 27th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: Movie Reviews
A quasi-zombie movie that draws natural, but unfair, comparisons to superior films like “Dawn of the Dead” and “28 Days Later,” but is a solid ride all its own.
Tags: 2009, 28 Days Later, Breck Eisner, Danielle Panabaker, George A. Romero, horror, Joe Anderson, Radha Mitchell, small town, The Crazies, Timothy Olyphant, virus, Zombie Posted in Movie Reviews |
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Feb 26th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs
“The Box” wants to be a morality play but can’t seem to squeak past pedestrian paranoid conspiracy thriller.
Tags: 1970s, cameron diaz, creepy, dvd, Frank Langella, James Marsden, moral dilemma, period, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, The Box, thriller Posted in DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs |
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Feb 22nd, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: The Schlock Vault
Not to be confused with Larry Cohen’s 1974 killer baby flick of the same name, “It’s Alive!” is one of those films schlock lovers call “bad bad.”
Tags: car breaks down, city folk, country bumpkins, Creature from the Black Lagoon, It's Alive! 1969, Larry Buchanan, Larry Cohen, lost, monster, reptilian creatures, schlock vault, The Schlock Vault, voice over Posted in The Schlock Vault |
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Feb 17th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: Movie Reviews
A weaker Scorsese film, but still better than most of what’s out there
Tags: adaptation, asylum, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Lehane, dreams, drugs, Gone Baby Gone, goodfellas, hallucinations, Jackie Earle Haley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorsese, mental institution, Michelle Williams, mindbending, Mystic River, nightmares, novel, Shutter Island, thriller Posted in Movie Reviews |
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Feb 17th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: Movie Reviews
A riveting documentary about the life and times of a famous civil rights attorney through the eyes of his daughters.
Tags: 1960s, Abbie Hoffman, attorney, central park jogger, Chicago 7, civil rights, defense attorney, Disturbing the Universe, Documentary, fighting for rights, free speech, Indianapolis International Film Festival, Indianapolis Museum of Art, lawyer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., social justice, Sundance Film Festival, Toby Theater, William Kunstler Posted in Movie Reviews |
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Feb 12th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs
A surprisingly intelligent film that goes light on the sci fi premise and concentrates on relationship.
Tags: Blu-ray, dvd, Eric Bana, extras, Feb. 9, love story, Rachel McAdams, Robert Schwentke, romance, The Time Traveler's Wife, time travel Posted in DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs |
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Feb 11th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: The Schlock Vault
Man, the ’70s were weird.
Tags: Blacula, blaxploitation, bloodsucker, dead wife, Dracula, evil, green zombie vampires, romance, schlock vault, silly, slave trade, The Schlock Vault, vampire, vamps Posted in The Schlock Vault |
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Feb 10th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: Lede Movies, Movie Reviews
A puzzling train wreck that is often nonsensical, other times unintentionally funny, but always haphazardly thrown together.
Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, blood, disaster, Emily Blunt, Emily Blunt side boob, gore, guts, horror, Hugo Weaving, Joe Johnston, Lon Chaney Jr., remake, The Wolf Man, Universal monster movie, werewolves Posted in Lede Movies, Movie Reviews |
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Feb 9th, 2010 |
By Joe Shearer |
Category: DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs
A vanilla sort of suburban middle-aged angst movie couched with a lot of Jewish subtext that I frankly just don’t get.
Tags: a serious man, angst, Best Picture nomination, Coen Bros, Coen Brothers, dvd review, Jewish, joel and ethan coen, Michael Stuhlbarg, middle-aged, New, oscars, richard kind, subtext, suburbia Posted in DVD Reviews, Lede DVDs |
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