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‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Review

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Director Wes Anderson is known for his QUIRKY, independent, off-beat, QUIRKY comedies, including “Rushmore”, “The Royal Tennembaums” and “The Darjeeling Limited”. In 2009, he released his first animated film, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, (based on the Roald Dahl book) starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep. I thought it was the best movie of 2009 (even better […]
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‘Men in Black 3’ Review

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“Men in Black” was a surprise hit at the box office in 1997, and lifted the careers of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones to new heights. Five years later, “Men in Black II” was released, and while it wasn’t as big a hit with critics, it still made a lot of money. Now, after […]
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‘Battleship’ Review

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I was worried going into “Battleship” for a couple of reasons: 1) It looked a lot like “Transformers” and 2) How in the world can anyone make a two-hour movie based on a very simple board game? Well, Universal and Hasbro have done it, and the result is an incredibly bad film that sinks to […]
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‘Dark Shadows’ Review

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Vampires are more popular than ever right now in the entertainment world, thanks to “The Twilight Saga” and TV shows such as “True Blood” and “The Vampires Diaries”. Hard to imagine that they were also big 40-years ago, on daytime TV of all places. But that was the case. And now Johnny Depp and Tim […]
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‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ Review

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It was the big screen event diehard superhero comic book and film fans had been waiting for. And “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the rare movie that exceeded expectations. After “Iron Man” became a box office hit and re-launched Robert Downey, Jr.’s career, Marvel Studios released “The Incredible Hulk” (starring Edward Norton) and “Iron Man 2”, […]
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‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ Review

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Aardman Animation is best known for their stop-motion, claymation films and shorts, many of them involving the characters Wallace and Gromit, and most of them award-winning. On the big screen Aardman has given us 2000’s “Chicken Run” and 2005’s “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and, more recently, the studio provided character development […]
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‘Chimpanzee’ Review

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Disneynature has had much success with their Earth Day documentaries: 2009’s “Earth” was about our entire planet, primarily focusing on polar bears, whales and elephants and was narrated by James Earl Jones. 2010’s “Oceans”, narrated by Pierce Brosnan, took us under the sea. And last year’s “African Cats”, about lion and cheetah families, was narrated […]
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‘The Three Stooges’ Review

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Most everyone knows that The Three Stooges were a classic comedy trio that began back in the 1920’s. They were famous for their outrageous slapstick and were very popular both on TV and in movies. Now, more than 60 years after the original Moe, Larry and Curly ended their run as the Stooges, they’re being […]
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