Category: Ratings
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CPE & Em: Oz the Great and Powerful (****) fits like a glove
Oz the Great and Powerful – 2012 Directed by Sam Raimi Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Joey King Screenplay by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire based on the books by L. Frank Baum It was a movie that I had no idea needed to be made. There are 14 books written…
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Bully: You are not alone. Ever.
Bully – 2011 Director Lee Hirch Written by Cynthia Lowen “Pretty much a good day for me would be people leaving their hands off of me.” – Bullied student If I could write a letter to my 15-year-old self, I would have a lot to say. The first thing I would say is to hold on. I…
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Red Dawn: It’s a thankless job, but thank God its not Invasion U.S.A.
Red Dawn – 2012 Director Dan Bradley Starring Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise, Brett Cullen, Will Yun Lee Screenplay by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore, based on the original screenplay by John Milius and Kevin Reynolds The thing about Red Dawn, in any incarnation is the sheer lunacy of the…
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Hit and Run is an accident constantly happening
Hit and Run – 2012 Written and Directed by Dax Shepard (also directed by David Palmer) Starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Kristin Chenoweth, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold No one should have to see a tattoo to start a movie, especially a really bad one. Why would Veronica Mars even let Dax Shepard touch her? Who would ever…
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Killing Them Softly, because it wasn’t named Hitting one for Ira
Killing Them Softly – 2012 Writer and Director Andrew Dominik Starring Brad Pitt, Andrew McNairy, Ben Mendolsohn, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Sam Shepard, Slaine, Vince Curatola, Max Casella, Trevor Long When I was dating my wife, I took her to see the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Afterwards, at dinner, I asked her what she…
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Atlas Shrugged II: Nothing is everything, is the same
Atlas Shrugged Part II – 2012 Director John Putch Starring Samantha Mathis, Esai Morales, Jason Beghe, Patrick Fabian, Kim Rhodes, Richard T. Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Robert Picardo, Ray Wise, Diedrich Bader, Arye Gross, Thomas F. Wilson, Paul McCrane, Rex Linn, Teller, Michael Gross, Bug Hall Screenplay by Duke Sandefur, Brian Patrick O’Toole, Duncan Scott based on the novel by Ayn Rand “I don’t…
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Argo: It’s that few rotten million…
Argo – 2012 Director – Ben Affleck Starring – Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Tate Donovan, Clea Duvall, Victor Garber, Philip Baker Hall, Kyle Chandler, Michael Parks, Chris Messina, Titus Welliver Screenplay – Chris Terrio Alan Arkin is remarkable. He’s been doing the same shtick for 50 years. You would think it’d get old by now. It hasn’t.…
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Zero Dark Thirty or Forty, Whatever it Takes.
Zero Dark Thirty – 2012 Director Katheryn Bigelow Starring Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Ehle, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong, Harold Perrineau, Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Mark Duplass, James Gandolfini Screenplay Mark Boal I spent much of the Bush administration reading books about the wars in the middle east after 9/11. Most of it was read in disgust…
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The Man with the Iron Fists: Not so dexterous
The Man with the Iron Fists – 2012 Directed by RZA Starring Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, Byron Mann, RZA, David Bautista, Jamie Chung Screenplay by RZA and Eli Roth The Man with the Iron Fists lumbers across the screen like the big time wrestler that decides he wants to be an ice skater. The skates are…
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