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Neeson’s journey to B-action flick dark side complete
The “It ends here” tagline plays heavily in the advertising, but there’s nothing material preventing a Taken 4. In his third go ’round the super-retired-spy block, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is now the target of a massive LAPD manhunt after his … Continue reading
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Selma masterful, shows height of 1960s racism
Martin Luther King Jr. accepts his Nobel Peace Prize. In the next scene, four black little girls get blown away in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, one of many acts of violence perpetuated a year earlier in Birmingham, Ala. … Continue reading
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The title is referring to the game of imitating other movies that have won Oscars because that’s what this whole exercise was really about
The Imitation Game is disheartening. It is a movie to be angry about and disappointed in, but also one which should never have been expected to be any better. The movie is a biography of the sexy, new interpretation of Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gordon Welchman, Keira Knightley, Sherlock, The Imitation Game
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The Woman in Black re-released
The Woman in Black’s strange re-release is… wait, was that supposed to be a different movie? According to the synopsis, this is actually The Woman in Black 2: The Angel of Death, set 40 whole years after the first one. In the height … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, phoebe fox, The woman in black, the woman in black 2
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The most important movies of 2014
Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sniper, Bennett Miller, Boyhood, Capote, Captain America, Clint Eastwood, Dark Skies, Darren Aronofsky, Evan Goldberg, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Foxcatcher, God's not Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Heaven is for Real, History Channel, Insidious, J. Edgar, James Spader, Jeff Bridges, Let's be Cops, Marvel, Moneyball, Night at the Museum, Noah, Oculus, Oren Peli, Paranormal activity, paranormal activity: the marked ones, Persecuted, Robocop, Selma, Seth Rogen, Sinister, Son of God, Spider-Man, Taylor Swift, The Avengers, The Bible, The Giver, The Identical, The Imitation Game, The Interview, The Lego Movie, The Other Woman, Theory of Everything, Transformers, X-men: Days of Future Past
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