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Moody, Measured DEAD MAN DOWN Gets Job Done Before Falling Off Tracks

Director Niels Arden Oplev, who helmed the successful Swedish-language version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” has a little reunion with star Noomi Rapace in his American theatrical debut, “Dead...

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Movie Review: THE HOBBIT – AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Is Far Better Than Its Bad...

  The level of rancor aimed at Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is surprising, to say the least; one doesn’t expect the prequel to a Best Picture-winning screen franchise (and a...

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SIFF approaches, last time to save

The fine city of Seattle offers so many wonderful cultural events and activites. One of the gems that really delivers a fine pop culture experience is the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). It...

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Movie Review: Overlong THIS IS 40 Still Offers Genuine, Funny Insights about...

  You shouldn’t have to grade someone as talented as Judd Apatow on a curve.  As a writer-producer, he’s partially-to-fully responsible for some of the most memorable comedy artifacts of the last...

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Take THE CALL, a Taut Thriller, Until Rock-Stupid Third Act

No film should be judged by its trailer because a bad trailer can be made from a good film and vice versa. In case you caught the laughingstock trailer of “The Call,” you already know every story...

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Movie Review: The Genius of Andrew Dominik’s Weird, Wonderful KILLING THEM...

  Describing Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly doesn’t do it justice.  It’s a bleak, cynical slice of criminal misbehavior: two thugs (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelssohn) knock off a mob-run...

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THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE More Mild Throwaway Than Featured Act

Like the titular Burt’s sleight of hand, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” tricks you into thinking it will pull out more laughs than it really does. TV veteran director Don Scardino and screenwriters...

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Movie Review: Watching LES MISERABLES, With a Quick Word on SIDE EFFECTS

  The degree to which Les Misérables drops the ball as entertainment is massive, and more-than-a-little awe-inspiring – this might be the biggest fiasco from a mostly-untested filmmaker trying to...

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Provocative, Satirically Pointed SPRING BREAKERS Stands As Harmony Korine’s...

“Spring Breakers” is hard to articulate into words. That’s meant as the biggest compliment, not only to the film itself but to writer-director Harmony Korine (who wrote 1995′s controversial “Kids” at...

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Beautifully Gothic Style Prevails in Disturbingly Creepy STOKER

Foreign directors often take time to find their footing in Hollywood by making junky genre pictures, but not Park Chan-wook. Never lacking nerve or dark subject matter, his English-language debut...

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Paul Rudd and Tina Fey Bring Smarts to Muddled But Pleasant ADMISSION

Sold as another programmed romantic comedy but set up as an incisive, educational behind-the-scenes look at the college admission process, “Admission” is like a college applicant that has more smarts...

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Movie Review: The Importance of LINCOLN for America and Steven Spielberg

  Steven Spielberg has made a lot of historical epics in his career, but I don’t think he’s ever pulled off one like Lincoln.  Spielberg’s historical mode tends to skew towards the expansive, whether...

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Movie Review: Robert Bresson’s A MAN ESCAPED Mines Unconventional Aesthetics...

  I wonder if Robert Bresson knew what he was up to when he crafted his 1956 masterpiece A Man Escaped; the film feels unobtrusively, perfectly pitched right at the divide between art and commerce,...

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Movie Review: THAT THING YOU DO Is As Much Fun in 2013 As It Would Be in 1964

  It is very easy to underrate Tom Hanks’ directorial debut (his feature-length one, anyways), That Thing You Do.  Even had Hanks not set it in the world of 1960s rock-and-roll, the film still would...

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CultureMob Giveaway: Win LINCOLN on Blu-ray Combo Pack

  Courtesy of the good folks at Disney and Touchstone Home Entertainment, CultureMob is offering a special giveaway for Lincoln on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack.  Rather than summarize the plot...

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CultureMob Giveaway: Win TO THE ARCTIC on Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack

  Courtesy of the good folks at Warner Home Entertainment, CultureMob is offering a special giveaway for To the Arctic on Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack.  Rather than summarize the...

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Movie Review: REPO MAN Remains a Weird, Transgressive Classic

  Few movies can lay claim to revolutionizing the landscape of American independent film forever; Repo Man is one of them.  Director Alex Cox’s pop-punk fantasia is a thrilling compendium of weird –...

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Walking Dead’s T-Dog killed by Zombies but life goes on for the actor:...

IronE Singleton's new book is for sale on Amazon R.I.P. “T-Dog.” You did good keeping the group alive! Now back to the real world. Actor IronE Singleton is known for his role in AMC’s ‘The Walking...

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Movie Review: The Merging of David Cronenberg with William Burroughs in NAKED...

  I’m over the moon for David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch, but ‘twas not always so.  Until recently, I had tried – and failed – to make it through the movie.  Twice, no less. The first time, I barely got...

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Terrence Malick’s TO THE WONDER Equivalent to Watching Beautiful Paint Dry

“To the Wonder” is only the sixth feature film in filmmaker Terrence Malick’s forty-year-long career. Known for taking several years in between projects, Malick has seemingly rushed his latest to the...

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