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High School Makes Getting High Look Less Than Fun

Jul 1st, 2012

High School has such a winning premise that you want to send everyone involved in making it back to the drawing board for a do-over — just take it from the top, folks, and this time everyone actually have a good time.


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Think Like a Man a Rowdy, Charming Battle of the Sexes — With Steve Harvey

Apr 28th, 2012

Like He's Just Not That Into You and What to Expect When You're Expecting, Think Like a Man is a film adapted from a book that offers advice instead of a story — Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

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2012 NAB Show Creative Master Series Preview

Apr 5th, 2012

It’s April in Las Vegas and that means that once again it’s time for the NAB Show, which this year will be held from the 14 through the 19th. NAB, the world’s largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management

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Hockey Comedy Goon Doesn't Sermonize About Violence, And That's a Good Thing

Apr 3rd, 2012

Michael Dowse’s hockey comedy Goon is crude, violent and deeply enjoyable. It also offers the chance to see Liev Schreiber — a guy who’s played Hamlet, ferchrissakes — living it up as a bloodthirsty minor-league thug in the kind of ’70s eight-track-guy mustache that only hockey players, bless their hearts, still try to get away with.

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The Vow Barely Gets By With Rachel McAdams (and One Very Handsome Steak)

Mar 7th, 2012

In The Vow, Rachel McAdams plays Paige, a Chicago sculptor who's wife to Leo (Channing Tatum), the owner of a recording studio. The two are talking about starting a family, clearly giddily in love, when they get into a car accident that results in Paige taking a slow-motion header through the windshield.

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Project X, a Todd Phillips Production™, Made for Those Who Find the Hangover Franchise Too Sophisticated

Mar 5th, 2012

I’m pretty sure I ruined the night of a pair teenage boys huddled in the back row of a recent screening of Project X, a party disaster movie targeted at kids who find the Hangover franchise too sophisticated.

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The Divide Drowns Flat Characters in Arty, Apocalyptic Gloss

Jan 24th, 2012

Mickey (Michael Biehn), the paranoid building superintendent unwillingly responsible for allowing the characters in The Divide to survive the apocalypse, didn't plan for or want company. And who can blame him?

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Gina Carano Takes No Prisoners in Wickedly Entertaining Haywire

Jan 23rd, 2012

The brilliant haute spy character Modesty Blaise – created by British author Peter O’Donnell in 1963 and kept alive, through 2002, in a series of comic books and novels – has been botched on film so many times that those of us who love this urbane

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Fassbender, Focused Yet Unselfconscious, Makes Shame Compelling

Dec 14th, 2011

Steve McQueen’s Shame is perhaps mistitled: It’s the story of a man who has sex more often than he probably wants it, though still not as often as he needs it, which is a pretty fine distinction to make. And the word "Shame" by itself is too loaded, too inherently judgmental.


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Fassbender and Mortensen Duke It Out, Amicably, in A Dangerous Method

Dec 2nd, 2011

David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method is probably the most fun you’ll ever have watching a movie about Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud duking it out — and nurturing a deep-rooted but fragile friendship — in early 20th century Austria and Switzerland.

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