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Review: BURN AFTER READING

September 15, 2008 Michael McGonigle

Burn After Reading is a very funny Coen Brothers movie that is far more meaningful than their last film, the Best Picture winning film No Country For Old Men. Beginning with a cosmic zoom into [click for more]

Review: RIGHTEOUS KILL

September 12, 2008 Rich Drees

Righteous Kill is a movie built around a plot device. That wouldn’t be a bad thing in itself, except for the fact that as the film’s moves into its third act, the revealed motive for [click for more]

Review: SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO

September 6, 2008 Rich Drees

In the small Japanese town of Yuta, two rival gangs have formed an uneasy truce. They both are after a rumored treasure, but have been unable to find it. Into Yuta comes a lone gunman [click for more]

Review: FROZEN RIVER

August 24, 2008 Michael McGonigle

I generally try to find something positive to say about a director’s first film. But I can’t with Frozen River. I have no doubt that writer/director Courtney Hunt is passionate about her story and characters, [click for more]

Review: HAMLET 2

August 21, 2008 Rich Drees

While Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) believes that to live as an actor is to live a dream, he has found himself where dreams go to die- Tucson, Arizona. An actor whose career highlights include a [click for more]

Review: THE ROCKER

August 20, 2008 Rich Drees

“Smiling is for the weak,” one character tells Robert “Fish” Fishman (Rainn Wilson), a forty-year old drummer getting a second chance at the brass ring of rock godhood. If she is right, than I remained [click for more]

Review: PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

August 6, 2008 Rich Drees

Dale (Seth Rogen) is a twenty-something subpoena server who spends his time between work assignments arguing with his barely 18 year old girl friend Angie (Amber Heard) and getting high. After witnessing a gangster (Gary [click for more]

Review: THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

August 2, 2008 Rich Drees

I suppose one could be forgiven for some feelings of déjà fu while watching The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. The film features a middle-aged archaeologist/explorer whose days of fantastic adventuring are in the [click for more]

Review: AMERICAN TEEN

July 30, 2008 Rich Drees

We originally reviewed American Teen when it screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival last spring. As the film begins its roll out in Los Angeles and New York this weekend, we re-present our review. By [click for more]

Review: STEP BROTHERS

July 25, 2008 Rich Drees

Dennis Miller once opined that comedy is not something that one filters through one’s intellectual prism before reacting. You either laugh or you don’t laugh, there’s no cerebral debate involved. It is a truism that [click for more]