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Philadelphia CineFest Review: SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL

April 11, 2011 Rich Drees

If anyone was going to make a musical about the game of hockey, I suppose it would fall to the Canadians to do so.

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Review: Arthur

April 10, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

Can Russell Brand create laughs in Dudley Moore’s iconic role?

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Advance Review: BURKE AND HARE

March 13, 2011 Rich Drees

It’s John Landis’ first feature film in over a decade. But is it a strong comeback?

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Unknown is a perfectly adequate thriller of Hitchcockian extract, with Liam Neeson turning in a performance perhaps a bit better than the material deserves. Unfortunately, its true effectiveness as a mystery is undercut by the [click for more]

Review: GREEN HORNET

January 14, 2011 Rich Drees

Since 1936, crusading newspaper publisher Britt Reid and his friend Kato risked their lives so that criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet first on [click for more]

Review: Black Swan

January 14, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

Black Swan has garned much acclaim. It has an 88% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, it has garnered strong Oscar Buzz for the film itself and Natalie Portman in particular and it has made many a [click for more]

Review: The Fighter

January 4, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

Stop me when this starts sounding familiar- A young man growing up in an economically distressed area find that the only way out of his situation is to become a boxer. But the odds are [click for more]

Review: BLUE VALENTINE

December 29, 2010 Rich Drees

As director Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine goes into release today, we re-present our review of the film from when it screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival this past fall. Blue Valentine is a devastating portrait [click for more]

A Reader Reviews SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO

December 4, 2010 Rich Drees

This past week, the live action version of the classic anime franchise Space Battleship Yamato, better known here in the United States by the title it was syndicated to television – Starblazers. Ain’t It Cool [click for more]

PFF Review: MANDRILL

October 22, 2010 Rich Drees

Whenever I sit down to watch a Marko Zaror movie, I invariably find myself wondering why he doesn’t have more of a fan following in the US. He’s a top martial artist, has a strong [click for more]