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Austin Powers For Black People
Michael Jai White is probably most familiar to the average filmgoer for playing Gambol in The Dark Knight (“Enough, from the clown!”) but he also stars in and has a writing credit on Black Dynamite, a blaxploitation spoof that just recently sold for around 2 million at Sundance. You can watch the goofy trailer by…
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Lamenting the Silent Death of Killshot
What if I told you they had made a movie adapting a pretty decent Elmore Leonard novel (Killshot), and that it starred Thomas Jane, Diane Lane, recently Oscar-nominated (and a good pick to win) Mickey Rourke, rising actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rosario Dawson and it had been sitting on the shelf forever. Oh yeah, and…
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Bang Your Head!
The Wrestler Review A simple story well told. The Wrestler is a story of an underdog sports hero you’ve seen before (specifically, Mickey Rourke plays has-been wrestler Randy “The Ram”), and will see again. A few things set it apart from the pack. It’s of a higher quality. This is evident in the script (by…
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Not As Awesome As You’ve Been Led To Believe
My Bloody Valentine 3D Review Before I begin, let me just say I saw this in 2D, which likely made a huge difference. But since many of you will see the movie in 2D, consider this fair warning. Reading some of the reviews on this, most of them being web-based, gives the impression this is…
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Crank 2 Trailer–Enough Said
No really. I vehemently argued against the notion there would be a Crank 2. Friends tried to convince me, “No man, he blinks at the end. He’s alive.” I said no way in hell. I assumed it was budgetary constraints that kept the filmmakers from having Jason Statham simply explode in a million pieces at…
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Watchmen Is A Go!
Variety’s website reported today that Warner Bros. and Fox have settled. Fox is being given the equivalent of a “movie star’s gross participation” but Warner Bros. keeps its release date of March 6. For any fan of movies or graphic novels, this is a huge deal. Yippee!
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Ultimately, It’s Actually Pretty Good
Doubt Review Not to use the cliched press puns I try to avoid on this website, but, hell it kinda fits here. Doubt gives you plenty of reasons to doubt it’s a good movie. It’s about two nuns, Sister James (Amy Adams) sees the priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) doing some shady stuff after…
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Is It Just Me, Or Does the New Fast and Furious Look Decent?
Fast and Furious 4 Trailers Consider the original Fast and Furious. The first mega-hit for stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, the film pushed them towards careers as solo leads in similarly action-oriented fare. Walker still returned for Fast and Furious 2 (another hit) but skipped the third outing, whereas Diesel hasn’t been in the…
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Kinda Like A Rough, Over-acted Draft of Juno
United States of Tara Pilot Review One wonders how much clout a Steven Spielberg created series has based on the pilot of United States of Tara. The idea is okay, and certainly fits easily into the “edgy” family subgenre popular on channels like Showtime, HBO, and FX. But something is lacking in the execution. Maybe…
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Hustle and Flow in a Semi?
Craig Brewer, writer-director of the magnificent Hustle and Flow as well as the less-seen but nearly equally intriguing Black Snake Moan is apparently set to do an update on Smokey and the Bandit according to Hollywoodreporter.com. His upcoming film Mother Trucker is described as an action comedy about a man who steals an 18 wheeler…