Category: 3 Stars
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Piranha 3D should not be taken seriously. Seriously.
Piranha – 2010 Directed by Alexandre Aja Starring Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Dreyfus, Jerry O’Connell, Adam Scott, Steven R. McQueen, Jessica Szohr, Eli Roth Screenplay by Really? The best moment in the movie Piranha 3D (or just plain Piranha in 2D) happens early in the movie. Crusty old Richard Dreyfus climbs in…
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The Night Chronicles: Devil is up a tick from expectations
The Night Chronicles: Devil – 2010 Director – John Erick Dowdle Starring – Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O’Hara, Geoffery Arend, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven Screenplay – Brian Nelson Cinematography – Tak Fujimoto The name of M. Night Shyamalan is enough to evoke harmful images these days. Having a string of…
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Forget sobriety: Get Him To The Greek
Get Him To The Greek (***) Written and Directed by Nicholas Stoller Starring Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elizabeth Moss, Sean Combs, Rose Byrne, Colm Meany It’s an interesting proposition to make a career portraying a sober rock star when you present yourself as someone who appears to be ill with drug abuse at all times.…
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Clooney’s The American can never rest
The American – 2010 Directed by Anton Corbijn Starring George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Rueten, Paolo Bonacelli, Irina Bjorklund, Johan Leysen Screenplay by Rowan Joffe Hit man movies have only so far to go. You are usually making the hit, and then becoming the target. There are other options, where one becomes entangled along the way,…
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Easy A provides an all too simple view of High School
Easy A – 2010 Directed by – Will Gluck Starring – Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Patrica Clarkson, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcom McDowell, Alyson Michalka, Stanley Tucci Written by – Bert V. Royal Everyone wants to imagine that they mastered High School, and Olive Pendergast (Stone) is no exception. Given…
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Jolie’s Salt hits all the spots, should try to miss a few
Salt – 2010 Directed by Philip Noyce Starring – Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor Screenplay by – Kurt Wimmer, Brian Helgeland There are 3 versions of the movie Salt, with none of them substantially differing from the rest, in terms of predictability. This is hard to do, but the makers of the film manage to…
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The Other Guys is Ferrell and Wahlberg on a trip
The Other Guys – 2010 Directed by Adam McKay Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Rob Riggle, Damon Wayans, Jr. with Narration by Ice-T Written by Adam McKay and Chris Henchy About midway through The Other Guys, detectives Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz…
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Baruchel makes The Sorcerer’s Apprentice a worthy subject
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2010 Directed By John Turtletaub Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Alice Krige, Monica Bellucci, Teresa Palmer Screenplay by Matt Lopez, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal very loosely based on the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a point just past half way of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice when the young…
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The Expendables shows Stallone can still make films, sort of…
The Expendables Directed by Sylvester Stallone Starring Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Steve Austin, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzeneggar Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, David Callaham Somewhere, beneath all the human growth hormones and machismo, lies the heart of a poet. The man who wrote and directed Rocky…
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CPE’s Prometheus / Predator / Alien Universe Chronological Timeline Reviews
With the release of the first good Predator film in almost 25 years, and the making (by Ridley Scott) of an Alien prequel, Prometheus, now is a great time to review the two series as a whole. Both series have gone to hell and back (sometimes together), but overall, the entire series has provided many intense,…
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