Dark Shadows


Dark Shadows is a movie that begins with a wonderfully melodramatic fire, but then ultimately sinks under a plot that seems to give up half way through.  Like all Tim Burton productions, it looks

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Marvel's The Avengers


As I settled in for Marvel’s The Avengers (to cite its full title) my mind began to drift back a few years, all the way back to another Marvel action team

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The Cabin in the Woods


It is hard to tell if The Cabin in the Woods is either a commentary on horror movie clichés, a celebration, or a kick in the crotch.  All I can say that within the

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The Three Stooges


Your level of enjoyment with The Farrelly Brothers version of The Three Stooges depends greatly on where you stand with The Stooges to being with.

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L'Assault (The Assault)


It is a little difficult to watch a film like L'Assault and not feel a knot in your stomach. Here is a film about the 1994 Christmas hijacking of Air France Flight

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Titanic (3D)


Ever since James Cameron’s Titanic left theaters in mid-1998 - and subsequently made its way onto home video - I have purposely avoided it. I love this film, but I found that even briefly attempting to watch

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The Highest Pass


All his life, Adam Schomer has been seeking a spirit guide, a guru to help him find his true purpose.  “Since I was a kid, I’ve been wanting a guru, a wise

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The Hunger Games


The Hunger Games presents a dystopian future filled with gloom and doom, oppression and despair that is not likely to surprise anyone familiar with those presented in The Terminator, Mad Max, Gattaca

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Where is Stark Tower?




Ashamedly, I have to admit that I have never been to New York.  Despite briefly living two states over in Ohio as a child, I have never visited The Big Apple.  Nothing personal.  My life just hasn’t opened a door yet that has allowed me a trip to the city.  I’m from Alabama, you see, I don’t get up that way.

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The Red Phone
Nothing good has ever come from a red phone in a movie. Not one.



Hobo With a Shotgun
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The Captains
Square Grouper
The Artist
The Best (and Worst) Films of 2011






Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie


I am not as angry with Tim and Eric’s movie as I should be.  Their TV show makes me itch, but their movie is less sheer torpor than it is banality at feature-length.   In an

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