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By:
Pete Hammond
December 04, 2008 9:39pm EST
Cadillac Records simply rocks. This movie seems to have it all -- a musical dream machine with some of the best acting and singing you will see this year.
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By:
Mark Burger
November 25, 2008 8:36pm EST
The third time is not the charm for the action franchise, with Jason Statham merely going through the motions as the implacable, unstoppable Frank Martin, to whom bad things always seem to happen.
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By:
Pete Hammond
October 23, 2008 7:44pm EST
As a gritty and intense movie about a police family caught up in a NYPD corruption scandal, it finds real Pride and Glory in its superb cast.
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By:
Kit Bowen
September 18, 2008 10:21pm EST
Appropriately funny, surprisingly sweet, Ghost Town just might give Brit funnyman Ricky Gervais a career in the American romantic comedy milieu--if he wants it, that is.
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By:
Pete Hammond
September 18, 2008 10:21pm EST
As Westerns go Appaloosa rides comfortably close to being a classic in the tradition of Unforgiven and 3:10 to Yuma. For fans of the genre, this is a masterful triumph for Ed Harris and a dynamite screen teaming with Viggo Mortensen.
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By:
Pete Hammond
August 14, 2008 8:43pm EST
A not-so-convincing character study gets bogged down, failing to succeed in either of its goals--as compelling drama or to give spiritual enlightenment.
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By:
Pete Hammond
August 01, 2008 9:18am EST
As the election season heats up, so do the politically-themed movies--and right out of the gate is Swing Vote, a non-stop laugh machine which proves itself to be a landslide comedy winner.
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By:
Kit Bowen
July 29, 2008 2:06pm EST
Hosted by IESB.net, Bloody-Disgustung.com and Lakeshore Entertainment, and put together by Station 26, the party rocked until the wee hours of the morning, on top the roof at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown San Diego.
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By:
Robert Sims
June 20, 2008 5:47am EST
So much for just reporting the news. This conventionally told but nonetheless heartfelt historical drama recounts the true-life Herculean efforts of a British journalist to save a school of Chinese orphans during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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By:
Pete Hammond
June 13, 2008 5:48am EST
Although it has some effective moments and a clever premise, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller is short on thrills. Not a whole lot HAPPENS in The Happening.