Over the holidays I read Robert Sellers’ Hellraisers, whose subtitle, ”The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, and Oliver Reed” pretty much tells you what…
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Jeff Johnson
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This week’s Revival House is going to be a little different; in the TV world it would be called a “very special episode.” I was thinking how funny it is…
Sarah Gupta
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New decade, new frontiers. My first mission: Sundance 2010. That’s right, dear readers: in my quest for the latest in style and wellness, next week I plan to suffer through…
Bob Cashill
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Some stage plays and musicals are adapted into films. Others are simply filmed. That would seem to be the easier gig—but if you’ve suffered through one where the camera never…
Dw. Dunphy
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How close is close enough? That was the question that kept coming to my mind after checking out Universal/Focus’ DVD release for their early fall film, 9. While the press…
Bob Cashill
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Time waits for no critic. I still have to see, much less review, end-of-the-aughts releases like Up in the Air and The Lovely Bones and Nine but here it is…
Dw. Dunphy
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I struggled to find a properly descriptive title for this week’s column and failed miserably. I’m actually referring to movies that beat up the main character so badly, for so…
Jeff Johnson
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Everybody can use a good chuckle now and then, but the feeling one gets from uncontrollable laughter is hard to beat. I’m talking about the kind of laughter that makes…
Dw. Dunphy
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Spoiler Alert: Some key jokes of this release will be discussed. If you intend to view this DVD, you might want to consider avoiding the rest of this review. A…
Robin Monica Alexander
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Like many of you, I went out to the movies during the holidays. Maybe we saw some of the same films…Avatar, right? Sherlock Holmes? And despite the protests of hipsters…
Dw. Dunphy
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Flint Lockwood is a good inventor with poor judgment. He can make spray-on shoes and a monkey-English translator, but why? Even when he hits upon a useful invention, it all…
Jeff Giles
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Released during the late ’90s wave of teen comedies, 10 Things I Hate About You wasn’t really seen as anything special at the time (Greg Muskewitz of eFilmCritic asked, “How…
Dw. Dunphy
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Cinematic Titanic is the banner name for comedy writers Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein, all formerly of the cult television series Mystery…
Jeff Giles
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Spend any amount of time on film-buff sites, and you’re liable to hear the words “Sam Rockwell” and “underrated” come up fairly often. Though our own Bob Cashill has pegged…
Ken Shane
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In June of 1967, the Zombies entered EMI’s Abbey Road studios to record their masterpiece, Odessey & Oracle. Earlier that year, the Beatles had recorded their own masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper,…
Bob Cashill
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In a recessionary year most of the holiday releases have slimmed-down grab bag budgets, but two come in outsized, wrapped-and-ribboned boxes. Sherlock Holmes would seem to be destined for Dad,…
Jeff Giles
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If you play fantasy sports, you know the sports world is filled with talented players who, for whatever reason, never live up to their immense potential — they have so…
Lance Berry
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The highly anticipated film District 9 is opening today, all set to make a killing at the box office (and it certainly deserves the reward. It’s a well-crafted film, both…
Bob Cashill
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“The best seasonal film of all time. I wish I had kids. I’d make them watch it every year and if they didn’t like it, they’d be punished.” –John Waters…
Bob Cashill
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The received wisdom was that the even-numbered entries in the pre-reboot Star Trek series were better than the odd-numbered ones. That held up, too, until the 10th and final one…
Bob Cashill
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I reviewed The Hangover when it was a big hit in June, then watched as it snowballed into a phenomenon. It’s the fourth top-grossing movie of 2009 to date and…
Ken Shane
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It should come as no surprise that the members of Roxy Music spent time in art school. The band’s interests went far beyond creating the seminal music for which they…
Jeff Johnson
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Continuing with my current obsession with a film’s opening moments, here are nine opening scenes that stand out in my mind. It can be a pre-credit sequence, the first scene…
Lance Berry
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Quentin Tarantino’s latest arrives in theaters today, and Lance Berry has been dying to tell you all about it.
Robin Monica Alexander
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When the 2007 live action-animation hybrid movie of Alvin and the Chipmunks made $60 million in its opening weekend, it took people by surprise. Hadn’t the besweatered musical trio outstayed…
Kelly Stitzel
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Here’s the thing — I love holiday-themed horror films. In fact, one of my favorite Christmas movies is the original Black Christmas (1974). You may think that makes me sick…
Bob Cashill
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The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man is in theaters. Michael Douglas is starring in Solitary Man, coming soon. Opening today is A Single Man, with Colin Firth as a serious,…
Jeff Giles
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Half a good movie is better than no good movie at all, and Meryl Streep is great in just about anything — even Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, which presents…
Bob Cashill
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The ”Golden Age of Television” is roughly defined as that period from the early 50s to the very early 60s when productions broadcast live captivated millions of viewers. As the…
Jeff Johnson
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I was originally going to follow last week’s column with something else entirely, but I got so much great feedback that I thought I’d follow up with ten more cool…