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Review: THE ROAD

December 7, 2009 Michael McGonigle

I was looking forward to seeing The Road. I have not read the book by Cormac McCarthy, but then, I have never read The Wizard Of Oz, Gone With The Wind or Twilight and that [click for more]

Review: THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS

November 6, 2009 Rich Drees

Some books are naturals to be adapted into films, while others aren’t. Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare At Goats, which tracks the history of military programs designed to investigate the possibility of paranormal sciences [click for more]

Review: DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM

October 21, 2009 Rich Drees

Although historically held in the spring, The Philadelphia Film Festival has announced a season change to the fall starting with their 2010 event. As a way of easing the transition, they held a mini-festival last [click for more]

Review: BLACK DYNAMITE

October 19, 2009 Rich Drees

Listen up, you jive turkeys! Black Dynamite is the toughest, baddest blaxploitation hero you haven’t heard of yet. He’s a Vietnam vet and worked for the man as a CIA assassin. Now he’s determined to [click for more]

Review: ZOMBIELAND

October 2, 2009 Rich Drees

There are rules for surviving the zombie apocalypse. And our hero, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), fills us in on some of the most important in the opening minutes of the comedy Zombieland. Cardio is important, we [click for more]

Review: COCO BEFORE CHANEL

September 25, 2009 John Gibbon

People from good homes will be talking this year of fashion. Designers and label names will be spoken of without restraint; in fact, one familiar name of world couture will be a regular topic. That [click for more]

Review: 9

September 10, 2009 Rich Drees

On its surface, 9 bares some passing similarities with last summer’s animated hit Wall-E. Both are set in a post-apocalyptic, humanless landscape where the main characters are robots who have outlived their human creators and [click for more]

Review: EXTRACT

September 5, 2009 Rich Drees

The first scene of Michael Judge’s new comedy Extract features Mila Kunis’s character Cindy in a music store, buying an expensive electric guitar as a gift for her father. However, the moment when the two [click for more]

Review: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

August 21, 2009 Rich Drees

If you had any thought that Quentin Tarantino was going to deliver a conventional World War Two picture with Inglorious Basterds, then you really don’t know the director or his work at all. For a [click for more]

Review: (500) DAYS OF SUMMER

August 7, 2009 Michael McGonigle

This is a thoroughly delightful romantic comedy that is actually romantic and above all funny. Joseph Gordon Levitt is just getting better with each passing year. If this film does not mark some kind of [click for more]