February 2013 archive

{rating} Review pending.

{rating} Review pending.

{rating} I honestly try hard to like conventional romantic comedies. I really do. So few of them have anything to keep a guy interested, though. I hate sounding even to myself like a cynical male, but to filmmakers out there, let me say: “If you’re going to make a movie to get women into the …

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{rating} I will start this review by admitting that I like very few movies from this era of American cinema. I was born in 1969 and when I started to become a fan of the silver screen, movies like Casablanca were very old news indeed. A few later movies of the black-and-white era have struck …

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{rating} Every so often, a movie with a plot that has the germ of a good idea comes around. What makes a movie of this type for me is the ultimate execution of that good idea. Movies about zombies have been around almost as long as the concept. Very few of them take the view …

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