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Ancient Greek shirts and skins — round two!

It took eight years for Frank Miller’s 300 to go from page to screen, but his unpublished (read: unwritten) follow-up has skipped the graphic novel treatment and gone straight to cinema. 300: Rise of an Empire — what empire? There … Continue reading

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Liam Neeson’s Non-Stop ride to mediocrity

Can U.S. Air Marshals be foreign? There’s no way Liam Neeson could pass for American. This movie already doesn’t pass the smell test. Neeson stars as down-on-his-luck air marshal Bill Marks in Non-Stop. After the plane takes off, Marks is … Continue reading

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About Last Night bland, sexist

There are people in this world who think Kevin Hart is funny. But do those sad souls think he’s funnier than Jim Belushi? Hart invites the comparison by taking one of Belushi’s classic roles in the remake of About Last … Continue reading

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Robocop is the reason I want to watch movies for a living

The 1987 classic Robocop opened with a news brief informing viewers that OmniCorp literally owned the police force in Old Detroit, and the film continued into an incisive examination of deep fears about corporate control and consumerism gone wild. The … Continue reading

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Monuments are more interesting than these men

Monuments Men. Good God what a waste of time! This dreary film, based on a true story that couldn’t have been anywhere near this boring, follows seven allied art scholars through basic training and into World War II. Their job … Continue reading

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