Category: Reviews
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My Week With Alien, Part 1: ALIEN
Originally published at The Substream. I stand by the Alien films. Yes, even that one. Yes: that one too. What eventually becomes clear in looking at Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Alien Resurrection is that each one is something unique and extraordinary in its own way; the first two might both be classics of science fiction,…
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Review: WAR HORSE
I’ve been trying something new with my moviegoing, based off a recent David Bordwell blog post in which he affirms that the front row is the best place from which to watch a movie. I can’t quite get all the way in with the front row (though I did try it with Shame, my eyes called upon to…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART TWO
When we were young So that’s me. Ten years and out. I picked up my first Harry Potter novel just a few months over ten years ago, which was right around the time the first trailer for the first Harry Potter film made its appearance. You know where it went from there, as the twin threads of books and…
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Review: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATRILOGY
Burn all the rapists In February, with the arrival of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the end of 2011 staring us in the face, and having never read the books, I took home the Swedish version of the movie trilogy to warm myself up to the material. There was always so much fuss…
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Review: The ROCKY Movies
Yo! I am now a leading authority on the Rocky movies. Five days ago, I hadn’t seen any of them. Now I’ve seen ’em all. You know that theme? I’ve heard it a lot lately. I won the “Undisputed Collection” Blu-ray set about a year ago, collecting the entire series. It has sat on the shelf. I had been…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART ONE
The long, sad end of the road Look, at this point you’re either on board with Harry Potter or you’re not. Those who disdain the films (or the books) will find nothing in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One, to redirect them. Those who care about what’s going on here – and there are a lot…
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Review: SPIDER-MAN 3
The Best Bad Movie Ever Made Lookit: making movies is hard, man. You have to be on top of so many things. You have to have a clear vision, and you need to carry it out. You need to construct something that has unity, clarity, and coherence. It can’t just go along in a straight…